Musicology Annotation << Back The Mythologeme of Water in the Opera «Sadko» by N.A. Rimsky-Korsakov and in C. Debussy's Creativity: Sides of Archetype Natalia Verba The mythologeme of water is the ambiguous and complex image. Its realizations in art, including music works, have a lot of parallels. Opera «Sadko» by Rimsky-Korsakov and the works by Debussy on the marine theme is a vivid example of the availability of inter-textual links. These ones depend on the archetypical sea images, which dictate the similar direction of creative searches of means of their sound realization. This article reveals the general dramatic principles, intonation, timbre, registered and dynamic solutions, describing the embodiment of water element in the opera «Sadko», the symphonic triptych «Sea», the nocturne «Siren», the opera «Pelleas and Melisande», some piano works by Debussy. The author also makes conclusions about the archetype as the cause of such parallels. In addition, these compositions relate with other music works on the marine theme. The context of Hoffmann’s opera «Undine», Tchaikovsky’s symphonic fantasy «Storm» and Chopin’s «Barcarola» allows to identify the specifics of the mythologem of water in the works of Rimsky-Korsakov and Debussy. Keywords: Rimsky-Korsakov, Debussy, archetypical images, the mythologeme of water, intertextuality, music archetypes. Contacts: E-mail: verba.natalia@yandex.ru Pp. 17-25.