Music and Time Annotation << Back The Interpretation of Zuskind’s Play «The double bass» in the same-named Monodrama G. Korchmar G.V. Zadneprovskaya The theme of this article is the analysis of the musical interpretation Zuskind’s play «The double bass» in the modern opera St.-Petersburg composer G. Korchmar. Creating this opera, the monodrama’s «The double bass» author has his own interpretation, according to the firstsource, but this interpretation has some differences with monodrama. In the Zuskind’s monodrama the musical dramaturgy defined not only the philosophical idea, but also musical exfrasis in the musical play. Opera, like the play, is filled with musical terms (names of notes, intervals, frets, dynamic shades), mentions of genres (opera, symphony, concert, sonata, suite, chamber music), composers (Bach, Beethoven, Brahms, Wagner, Verdi , Haydn, Gluck, Dittersdorf, Cherubini, Mendelssohn, Mozart, Paganini, R. Strauss, Saint-Saens, Tchaikovsky, Schubert, Schumann, Chopin, etc.). The opera’s musical dramaturgy is based on the Korchmar’s original compositional method – «style modeling». Keywords: the modern opera, G. Korchmar, P. Zuskind, «The double bass», «Monodrama», exfrasis in the art. Contacts: E-mail: z_galina@bk.ru Pp. 14-20.