Las referencias a obras y compositores en Mozart in the Jungle. : El texto como un elemento de la banda sonora.

The Text as an Element of the Soundtrack

Abstract

Mozart has been and is one of the great composers in the history of music. Such has been its relevance that it gives title to a series that, although it does not allude to his life and work, is present as a ghost that dialogues with the main protagonist of the series. The objective of this study is to quantify the references to composers and musical works that are explicitly alluded to throughout the four seasons of the Mozart in the Jungle series. It has been carried out through a musivisual methodology focused on the analysis of oral references of composers and works belonging to classical music. An ad hoc observation protocol for the registration of references has been designed and elaborated. As main results, it stands out that there is a total of 293 references to composers or musical works, being the fourth season where they are most alluded to (129). Mozart along with Beethoven, Bach and Mahler are the most mentioned composers throughout the series. Among the most mentioned compositions we find the works of Mozart, being the Requiem the most mentioned. We conclude that Mozart is not only present in the title of the series, but also in the use of his name and works recurrently throughout the episodes.