The Theme of Music in Captain Corelli’s Mandolin

The link between the mandolin and the relationship is made clear by Corelli’s comparison of the instrument to Pelagia as well as the sound it makes:

‘How like Pelagia is a mandolin, how gracious and how lovely’

Lemoni, the innocent and pure child that everyone in the villiage has time for uses song to keep her amused, and to create a relationship with the wild animals she loves so much. It is mentioned that insanity is only acceptable when one is a child, and Lemoni’s attempts to teach a stray dog to sing in chapter 9.

‘”He’s singing! He’s singing!” Cried Lemoni and joined in “A-ee-ra, a-ee-ra, a-eera”

‘Finally arrived at the point where singing was both natural and inevitable, they sang together a cantada’

So from Corelli’s gentlemen’s singing club, to Lemoni’s singing animals, and the composition of Pelagia’s march, it is not difficult to identify the importance of music, song and sound in Captain Corelli’s Mandolin.