Dimitri Shostakovich. Entre la passacaglia, el monomito y el patriarcado

Abstract

The purpose of this article is to demonstrate how the underlying structures of IndoEuropean mythology are also present in the functioning of the tonal system, which operates as a collectively configured cultural device, whose purpose is to offer strategies to integrate certain elements that patriarchal ideology has repressed and silenced during the last millennia. In order to develop an academically rigorous hermeneutic exegesis, the tools provided by structuralism will be used at all times, since they allowed comparative mythology to unravel certain core aspects of the mental processes that shaped Indo-European culture. The work chosen for this purpose is the passacaglia of the Violin Concerto No. 1 in A minor, op. 77 by Dimitri Shostakovich.