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Important stages in the history of Polish music in the 19th and 20th centuries. The life and creative path of K. Prosnak (1898-1976). Figurative content of the choral miniature "The Sea". Analysis of literary text, musical theoretical, vocal and choral analysis, performing difficulties.

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Mogilev State Gymnasium-College of Arts

Course essay

Specialty: "Conducting"

On the topic: “Choral miniature “The Sea” (words by K. Khrustelskaya, music by K. Prosnak, Russian text by N. Mickiewicz)”

Teacher: Galuzo V.V.

Mogilev, 2015

1. The most important stages in the history of Polish music of the 19th-20th centuries

2. Life and creative path of K. Prosnak (1898-1976)

3. The figurative content of the choral miniature “The Sea”

4. Analysis of literary text

5. Music-theoretical analysis

6. Vocal and choral analysis, performance difficulties

7. Conducting tasks

Conclusion

Bibliography

1. The most important stages in the history of Polish music of the 19th-20th centuries

ETapas of the history of Polish musicXIX - XXcenturies were, so to speak, monological in nature. 20-40 years of the 19th century - Chopin's era. In his homeland, Chopin could not conduct an equal creative dialogue with anyone. The years 50-70 are associated with the name Moniuszko. He made a huge contribution to operatic and vocal Polish music. Based on the artistic traditions of Chopin, as well as M.I. Glinka and A.S. Dargomyzhsky, Moniuszko finally established the type of national Polish opera, developing the unique features of folk song and dance music.

In the 1920-30s. The activities of K. Szymanowski were important. Thanks to Szymanowski, a group of young progressive musicians is formed, united under the name “Young Poland”. It included G. Fitelberg, Ludomir Ruzicki, M. Karlovich and K. Szymanovsky. Rubinstein and several other highly gifted artists who made up the performing team of “Young Poland” gravitated towards them.

"Young Poland" declared the struggle for a new Polish music that would not lose its national traditions, but would not lag behind the achievements of European music. This was the slogan and the real platform.

The group was very heterogeneous: Fitelberg was absorbed in conducting activities, so he composed music from time to time; Ruzycki lived more in Germany, was not distinguished by consistency of aesthetic views and aspirations, but together, with such a strong figure as Szymanowski at the center, they formed an impressive avant-garde fighting for the musical progress of Poland. The cultural center of that time was Paris. Many young Polish musicians (Perkowski, Wojtowicz, Maklyakiewicz, Wiechowicz, Szeligovsky) strive to get to Paris in order to study the foundations of neoclassicism (in this style, the use of expressive means was more restrained, in contrast to romanticism).

The Second World War and the 6-year fascist occupation (1939-1945) almost completely paralyzed the country's musical life; a large number of sheet music and manuscripts of works by modern composers were lost during the Warsaw Uprising (1944). After 1945, the restoration of musical culture began in Poland thanks to the activities of composers (Perkowski, Lutosławski, Wiechowicz, Mycelski) and conductors (Skrowaczewski, Wisłocki, Rowicki).

The general rise of culture was reflected in the nature of musical art: many composers turned to using Polish musical folklore and creating mass choral and solo songs. At that time, songs such as “Right Bridge, Left Bridge” by A. Gradshtein were heard in Poland; “Red Bus”, “Rain” by V. Shpilman; “Marys-Marysya” by V. Rudzinski.

Cantata and oratorio have gained great popularity among professional genres. They turned to the cantata genre by B. Wojtowicz (“Cantata for the Glory of Labor”), J. Krenz (“Two Cities - Warsaw - Moscow”), K. Wilkomirski (“Wroclaw Cantata”).

In the post-war years, musical institutions also began to be restored. Their number has doubled. 19 symphony orchestras, 8 opera troupes, 16 operetta theaters, 7 conservatories, and about 120 secondary and primary music schools have been created. Music received a wide scope. amateur performance. From the end 1940s conc. develops intensively life. Numerous vocal ensembles of ancient music were created: in Poznan (choir under the direction of Stuligrosz), in Krakow (Kapella “Krakowense”). The competition, known in the pre-war years, became even more popular - the piano competition named after. F. Chopin, G. Wieniawski violin competition.

The annual festival of contemporary music is the Warsaw Autumn Festival. The main goal of these events is to introduce Polish audiences to the music of the 20th century. All R. 50s In the works of Polish composers, new diverse trends appeared, such as: dodecaphony (translated from ancient Greek “twelve” (“dodeka”) and “sound” (“phonе”)), aleatorics (from the Latin Alea - dice), sonoristics ( from Latin sono - sound). Long-standing experiments in the musicalization of speech intonation, the introduction of whispers into the musical fabric, imitation of crowd talk, hissing led to interesting works by Penderecki, Tvardovsky, Serotsky, Bird. A particularly important event was the performance of Penderecki's St. Luke Passion. This work was a big blow to the imposition of “small tasks” on music, to the meaninglessness of the very essence of musical art. Despite a number of differences in the direction of creative quests, the common features of the modern Polish school of composition are a tendency towards monumental forms and acute expressiveness. Currently, the works of the above-mentioned Polish composers occupy a worthy place in the repertoire of leading performers around the world, are an integral part of the competitive programs of international competitions and festivals, the object of study by musicologists and have a galaxy of ardent fans, both in Poland and abroad.

2. The life and creative path of K. Prosnak (1898-1976 )

Karol Prosnak is better known at home and abroad as the leader of choral groups - the mixed choir named after. Moniuszko and the male choir “Echo” - than the composer. His compositions include operas for youth, orchestral works, romances, and piano pieces. But he gained popularity and recognition in our country precisely as the author of works for choir.

Prosnak was born on September 14, 1898 in Pabianice. After graduating from high school in Pabianice, he moved to Lodz, where he studied music at music courses. Completes his musical education in Warsaw. For 20 years Prosnak has been a professor of singing in secondary schools in Lodz.

Prosnak was not limited only to teaching activities. He is a conductor and leader of many choral groups, conducts the Lodz Philharmonic Orchestra, and is engaged in composing activities. His work was deservedly noted. So, in 1923 in Warsaw Prsnak was awarded the 1st prize for a prelude for piano, in 1924 - in Poznań - for the poem for an 8-voice choir a cappella “Buzha Morska”, in 1926 in Chicago - 1st prize for piece for mixed choir a cappella “The Return of Spring”. In 1928 in Poznan_ II prize for “Three Songs” for mixed choir a cappella (“Lullaby”, “Blizzard”, “Nocturne”). In 1965, in the USA, Karol Prosnak was awarded the “Gold Medal” for creating magnificent works for Polish choirs. In addition, the a cappella choral work is represented by the following works: “Two Mice”, “The Nightingale and the Rose”, “Saradzin Wedding”. Prosnak wrote two cycles about the sea. The first is “Lullaby”, “Blizzard”, “Nocturne”. The second is “Sea”, “Prelude”, “Barcarolle”. As well as choirs and orchestra - “Prayer of the Trees”, “Wedding”, “Solemn Polonaise”.

Not many works by K. Prosnak have been published in our country, but even from them one can judge the great talent and skill of the composer. Despite the fact that his work has been little studied, his works have become firmly established in the performing composition of many choirs and are studied in conducting classes in higher and secondary specialized educational institutions.

Polish music Prosnak choral

3. Figurative content of the choral miniature “The Sea”

The sea has attracted man since time immemorial. People admired the sea and listened to the sound of the surf. The sea was part of human existence; it both frightened and attracted with its beauty, strength and unpredictability. The image of the sea has always been the object of attention of artists, composers and poets.

The sea became the main theme of the work of Ivan Konstantinovich Aivazovsky, a marine painter who left a great legacy of his work, which one cannot help but admire. He painted about six thousand paintings about the sea. Paintings “The Ninth Wave”, “Sea. Koktebel”, “Rainbow”, “Black Sea” - show the sea in different states. The sea is also represented in the paintings of Claude Monet, Fyodor Alekseev, Van Gogh.

Pushkin, Zhukovsky, Tolstoy, Green, Tolstoy, Tsvetaeva wrote about the sea. F. Tyutchev sang the sea element in his poems:

"How good are you, oh sea at night, -

It's radiant here, It's dark there...

In the moonlight, as if alive,

walks, and breathes, and it shines..."

The image of the sea is also reflected in music. The sea was depicted with particular expressiveness in the works of N.A. Rimsky-Korsakov, C. Debussy, B. Britten, A. Borodin. Musical works depicting the sea: the introduction to the opera “Sadko” or the first part of the symphonic suite “Scheherazade. “The Sea and the Ship of Sinbad” - N.A. Rimsky-Korsakov; symphonic sketch “The Sea” by C. Debussy. Fragment “Flight of the Bumblebee” from the opera “The Tale of Tsar Saltan” by N.A. Rimsky-Korsakov.

The sea is shown very figuratively in the choral music of K. Prosnak. The sea in his writings is depicted as sometimes gusty and calm, clear and peaceful. The triptych “Songs of the Sea” was written by Prosnak in 1938. “Songs about the Sea” are small works that require a high level of performance skill from the performers.

To create the triptych, Prosnak chose the soulful poems of Kristina Khrustelskaya.

4. Analysis of literary text

Analysis of the literary text in the generally accepted context in the choral miniature “The Sea” cannot be carried out, because we are dealing with a translation by N. Mickiewicz, which, separately from the musical text, cannot be the object of literary analysis, since there is no usual system of versification. The text is closer to prose, there is practically no rhyme. The poem does not have a specific literary size. It should be noted that the translation is made quite close to the original text. Thanks to a good translation by N. Mickiewicz, the poem retains the sound and visual effects that were used in the original text.

"Sea"

1. The vast expanse of azure waves

A wild wind will howl and come down from behind the clouds.

The chorus of the black abyss will suddenly thunder ominously, Can.

There is confusion in the gray waves, fear…

But again the world is full of light and sun...

The eyes will be enchanted, Oh, sea ​​shine waters,

Darkness of the waters, the depth of the waters and the dawn of the sunrise.

But at least the blue sea is bright,

Thunder will roll around again,

The squall will howl menacingly.

2. There's a path open into the wide world

The sea beckons, calls us into the distance and draws us to itself

Changing colors, depth, then stormy, then clear waters,

Darkness of the waters, the depth of the waters and the dawn of the sunrise.

But at least the blue sea is bright,

Suddenly the winds of storms foam.

Thunder will roll around again,

The squall will howl menacingly.

5. Music-theoretical analysis

Choral work "Sea" written for 6 goals. mixed choir.

Genre- choral miniature.

Form- couplet-strophic.

Texture- predominantly homophonic-harmonic with elements of imitative and subvocal polyphony (bars 1-3, 5-7, 21-23)

Main size- 4/4. 3/4 - in measures 13-25, in measure 26 the main time signature returns.

Choral miniature “The Sea” is part of the second cycle of songs about the sea.

The verses are divided into sections A+B+C+D, where section A is the introduction, B and C are the developing parts, D is the conclusion.

Section A begins with the unison singing of the bass and tenor lines in the key of D-dur and Largo tempo, which helps to introduce the listener to “the vast expanse of the endless sea.” In the second measure, the male choir, sounding on forte, is joined by a female choir, sounding on piano. The opening phrase sounds very expressive (espressivo). The first section ends with a half cadence (T6 - D9-5 -D). The first section is separated from the second rit. and a fermata over the bar line.

The second section (B) begins at a tempo of allegro agitato (fast, anxious), changing the character of the music. There is a transition to the h-moll key. The rhythmic pattern changes, becoming caustic, triplets appear, the rhythm is emphasized by accents. With the words “There is confusion and fear in the gray waves,” the first climax of the verse occurs. The image of the raging sea elements is conveyed by unauthorized chords - II7, IV2. In this section there is not a single resolution in T. This section ends on a pause, which is of great importance; after each section the composer makes a stop so that it is easier for the singers to move to the new section. The end of this part is 3 measures that pass on p in tempo adagio, tranquillo (rather slowly, calmly) The words sound: “But again the world of light and sun is full.” Here there is a bright dynamic contrast between the two sections, p gives the music a different character.

The third section (C) begins with a deviation in h-moll. In this section, the time signature changes from 4/4 to 3/4. The tenor's ostinato "Enchants the Eyes" sounds on pp, and a sustained note appears in the bass. With the words “The sea will be enchanted, ah, the sea will be enchanted by the shine of the waters,” a female choir enters. Due to the sustained sounds, a mystical mood is created “darkness of the waters, depth of the waters.” The section ends with a very light conduction, sounding at a very slow tempo and melodious (molto adagio e cantabile ), and giving some hope. The performance ends with a chord of local tonic.

The third section (C) is separated from the final section (D) by a fermata installed above the bar line.

The climax of the entire work occurs in the fourth section (D). Returns to 4/4 size. The fast and restless tempo (allegro, adagio) helps the listener imagine the reoccurring storm at sea. The rhythm becomes sharp. The male choir uses a triplet rhythm. Then the entire choir sounds on ff in a rather high tessitura. Using a very slow (molto ritenuto) as well as a significant (molto) tempo, the composer masterfully displayed the text “Thunder will roll all around again” with his music. The end of the work on ff “the squall will howl menacingly” increases in crescendo.

6. Vocal and choral analysis, performance difficulties

Type and type of choir. The work “The Sea” was written for a 6-voice mixed choir a sarrella.

Divisi occurs:

· In batch S in volumes 14-16, 30-32

· In batch T in volumes 31-32, 34.

· In batch B in volume 4, 12-13, 16-21

Overall range of the choir:

· S- h-g 2

· A- ais-d 2

· T- H-g 1

· B- H 1 -e 1

Tessitura. If we talk about the tessitura component, then in general it is comfortable. The appearance of high-pitched sounds in parts sounds f And ff, therefore the ensemble remains natural.

Performing difficulties:

Vocal intonation

Moves at wide intervals:

· T t.6-7, 9-10, 23

· In vols. 4-5, 12-13, 16, 28, 34

Long singing on one sound:

· T t. 13-15, 30-31

Singing long sustained sounds:

· In t. 13-15, 16-17

Chromatisms:

· A t.3, 9, 20, 31

· T t. 4, 12, 26-28

· In vol. 10, 24, 26-29, 31

Tempo- metro- rhythmic

In this work, the rhythmic side presents a certain difficulty. There is an alternation of dotted and triplet rhythms at a fast tempo (allegro agitato) in bars 5-7, 11, 26, 28 and 31. The difficulty lies in the introduction of parts after the introduction of individual parts against the background of the sounding texture, as well as the entry of the choir after pauses (7-10). A great difficulty in rhythmic terms is the performance of counterpoint by tenors, against which the rest of the voices sound. (13-15) . With the words “The eyes will enchant,” the size changes from 4/4 to 3/4. The original size is returned in the final section.

Another challenge is the frequent change of pace. Tempo change sequence:

· Largo (1-3t.)

· Ritenuto (4 t.)

· Allegro agitato (26-29 t.)

· Adagietto tranquillo (11-25 t.)

· Allegro agitato (26-29 t.)

· Notevole (30t.)

Molto ritenuto (31-35 t.)

Dynamic

The work uses contrasting dynamics, which helps convey figurative content. The following difficulties should be taken into account:

1. Extreme areas of nuances:

· in 9-10, 30-31, 34-35 bars - ff

· in 13-10, 20-25, 33 bars - pp

2. Contrasting dynamics - comparisons f And p occurs in 1-4 measures.

Diction

To successfully perform this choir, performers must have good diction. Particular attention should be paid to the following difficulties:

· singing short durations at a fast tempo (5, 7 volumes)

· a large number of hissing and whistling sounds. In words such as: ominous, powerful, enchants the eyes, foams, rolls, squall, wide, light, attracts, wanderings of enchantment, meetings, dreams, joys, will return

· difficult to pronounce letter combinations: boundless, howling wind, abyss, suddenly thunder, foam, howl a squall

Fermata

This work uses a couplet-strophic form, so there is a need to differentiate sections. Sections are demarcated using a fermata. They help singers adjust to a new emotional state. Fermats are used over sound: in 12t. - decrescending, combined; in 33 t. - decrescending, removable; in 34 volumes - crescendoing, removable, final. There are fermatas above the pauses at 10, 32, 34 bars and above the bar line at 4, 25 bars.

7. Conducting tasks

The work is challenging both to conduct and to perform.

1. The correct choice of tempo depends on the conductor.

2. A clear outline that anticipates the nature of each section.

3. Accurate display of entries and withdrawals of each game.

4. The conductor must be able to demonstrate all types of sound engineering: staccato, legato, non legato, marcato.

5. The conductor must show all the emotions and images that the composer embodied in this work. In calm parts, the gesture should be soft, but with a sense of will.

Conclusion

Karol Prosnak made a significant contribution to the development of choral performing arts. Due to the fact that Prosnak was the conductor of the mixed choir. Monyushko and the male choir “Echo”; in his creative heritage there are choirs written for various types, types and compositions of the choir.

K. Prosnak is lyrical and romantic in his creative style. The content of his works is predominantly pictorial in nature. In his work, the composer masterfully uses choral timbres. Drawing on the accumulated experience of working in choral groups, the composer skillfully uses the choral sound of a part or the entire choir in a number of works to create an artistic image.

Choral works by K. Prosnak have an important place in the repertoire of various choral groups.

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The article is devoted to the evolutionary processes in choral miniature, which were the result of transformations of the ideological, philosophical, ethical and sociocultural order of the first half of the twentieth century. The panorama of profound changes in society was complemented by a tendency to intensify artistic reflection on the dynamically developing picture of the world. In this work, the task is to consider in this context how the miniature expands its musical-associative, meaningful volume. In order to illuminate the problem, the concept of evolution in art is used. Revealing its essence and starting from it, the author examines the miniature from the point of view of evolutionary processes in art. The author notes significantly significant directions in the development of musical art that influenced the choral miniature, namely: a more detailed and subtle rendering of the emotional and psychological gradations of the image and the development of associative layers that generalize the artistic context of the work. In view of this, attention is directed to the expanding possibilities of musical language. In this regard, different parameters of the evolutionary flexibility of choral tissue are emphasized. As a result of a comparative analysis of the choirs of V.Ya. Shebalin and P.I. Tchaikovsky concludes: a wide range of innovations, reflecting the increased expressiveness of melodic-verbal structures, the emergence of a contrasting polyphony of textured plans led to a new level of information content in the choral miniature.

evolutionary process

information level

musical-associative content layer

musical language

structural-linguistic semantic formations

musical stanza

melodic-verbal structures

1. Asafiev B.V. Musical form as a process. – 2nd ed. – M.: Music, Leningrad branch, 1971. – 375 p., P. 198.

2. Batyuk I.V. On the problem of performing New choral music of the 20th century: abstract. dis. ...cand. claim: 17.00.02.. – M., 1999. – 47 p.

3. Belonenko A.S. Images and features of the style of modern Russian music of the 60–70s for a capella choir // Questions of theory and aesthetics of music. – Vol. 15. – L.: Muzyka, 1997. – 189 pp., p. 152.

5. See for more details: Mazel L. A. Questions of music analysis. Experience of convergence of theoretical musicology and aesthetics. – M.: Soviet Composer, 1978. – 352 p.

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7. See in more detail O. Cheglakov Evolutionary art [Electronic resource]. -- Access mode: http://culture-into-life.ru/evolucionnoe_iskusstvo/ (accessed April 26, 2014).

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Since the second half of the 20th century, choral art has entered a new period of development. This is due to new moods in society during the 60s and a perceived need for a return to the original forms of musical culture and spirituality. The intensive development of choral performance, both professional and amateur, and the increase in the level of performing culture have become an incentive for the creation of many innovative works. The stabilization of the genre of choral miniature and its artistic potential required an expansion of the range of expressive possibilities. Evidence of this was the formation of choral cycles. The flourishing of choral miniatures and the formation of the principles of unity became “a consequence of the general intellectualization of creative thinking, reinforcing the moment of a meaningful and rational beginning.”

Being in line with evolutionary processes, individual styles were characterized by the growth of integrative qualities and had the ability to “involve vast areas of associative knowledge and emotional and psychological experiences in the context of artistic perception.” And this, in turn, made it possible to create a qualitatively new level of information content of the choral work. In this regard, the words of the great modern artist Rodion Shchedrin are especially noteworthy: “in order to convey this or that information, people of the future will make do with significantly fewer words and signs. Well, if we translate this into music, then, apparently, this will lead to brevity, concentration of thought, and, consequently, to a concentration of means and some kind of greater saturation of musical information...”

The criterion for evolution in art is not only the “call to exaltation of the spirit,” but also, of course, the “artistic level,” which ensures an increase in the precision and filigree of technology, the details of which form the deep multidimensionality of the image.

Let us consider the evolutionary processes of a capella choral music through the prism of these criteria. The history of the development of musical art indicates that processes aimed at expanding the expressive capabilities of language go in two directions: “deepening the contrast and further polarization of the stable and unstable in all expressive systems of music and are associated with an increasingly detailed and subtle grading of emotional and psychological transitions from the pole of tension to relaxation and vice versa." A person’s feelings do not change, but their experiences are enriched, which means that when he becomes an object of musical embodiment, “his image requires an increasingly broader justification - a social background, a historical perspective, plot and everyday specificity, moral and ethical generalization.” In essence, we are talking about the deployment of a wide palette of new musical-associative content layers - complementing, shading, deepening, expanding, generalizing the artistic context of the work, making it infinitely capacious, far beyond the scope of “plot imagery”.

These evolutionary processes, closely related to the main feature of the miniature - its ability to correspond with the outside world, with other systems, originated in the internal structures and elements that form the fabric of the choral work. Organically intertwined, they have different abilities for transformation and reflection of the extra-musical, that is, mobility, and therefore evolutionary flexibility. The sound volume of choral parts and the choir as a whole has perfect stability. Structural and linguistic formations are relatively stable - carriers of certain semantics and corresponding associations. And finally, musical language has mobility and the ability to create endlessly new internal structural connections.

The polyphonic system of the choir has a synthesis of verbal and non-verbal components within the musical language. It is due to their specific properties that the musical language is characterized by internal mobility and opens up limitless possibilities for reorganization for the entire system.

Let us turn to the expressive speech elements of musical language. Based on B. Asafiev’s concept that intonation is “comprehension of sound,” we conclude that within its framework the entire spectrum of characteristic shades of content is formed. Let us add to this that the nature of the sound reproduced by man has a unique ability to integrate the expressive capabilities and qualities of different instruments. Let us conclude: the moving elements of the verbal component of a polyphonic choral system: emotional coloring and sound creation (articulation). That is, in the intonation of the human voice we capture the emotional and semantic component, and in the articulatory features of the created sound we can catch additional, deep colors of the content organically fused with meaning.

In the interaction of words and music in the second half of the twentieth century. the most complex relationships emerged, characterized by increasing attention to the pronunciation of the verbal text along with its intonation. The nature of singing diction began to change with the specifics of choral writing. Sound creation, that is, articulation, began to include a triune task in conveying verbal meaning: a clear, precise presentation of the word, expanding the methods of pronunciation and intonation, and combining verbal microstructures into a single semantic whole. “...The singer becomes a “master of artistic expression”, able to use the “speech of timbres”, the timbre-psychological color of the word.”

The development of means of speech personification, keeping pace with the development of expressive means of music, has become one of the reasons for the emergence of a tendency towards contrasting stratification of texture layers. This was due, in particular, to the appeal to new themes, to different “historical styles” of music, the melody of modern instrumentalism, romance lyrics, and so on.

The textured plans were intended to reveal the coloristic properties of the vertical in order to achieve the timbre characteristic of the choral sound. The essence of these innovations lay in various combinations of techniques for presenting material, reflecting the desire for diversity and colorfulness. The range of creative experiments in this area was quite wide: from “sharp contrast, comparison of types of choral textures” to “emphatically ascetic black and white graphics of two-voices.”

Let us turn to the musical component of the choral sound. Let us determine the mobility of elements in the musical component of a polyphonic fabric. In the developments of the fundamental research “Issues of music analysis” L.A. Mazel says that means of expression, forming combined complexes, have the possibility of “great variability of emotional and semantic meanings.”

Let's draw a conclusion. The strengthening of the processes of mutual influence of verbal-speech and musical components in the light of the expansion of themes, appeal to different musical styles, the latest compositional techniques, led to the updating of musical semantics, the intensification of interaction between various structural-semantic plans and was decisive in the accumulation of information content of artistic content, capacity, artistic versatility of choral miniature.

In this regard, let us turn to the work of Russian choral composers of the second half of the twentieth century, in particular to the works of V.Ya. Shebalina (1902-1963). The composer belonged to that branch of choral artists who created their works in line with romantic traditions, carefully preserving the foundations of the Russian choral school. V.Ya. Shebalin enriched choral art with a fundamentally new type of subvocal-polyphonic vocal performance, associated with the performing tradition of peasant lingering song. In order to more clearly identify new composer techniques and their significance for the evolutionary processes in general for choral miniatures, we will make a comparative analytical sketch of P.I.’s choral scores. Tchaikovsky and V.Ya. Shebalin, written on one text - a poem by M.Yu. Lermontov "The Cliff".

Let's start from the embodiment of a single verbal text. Tchaikovsky's entire work is written in a strict chord texture. The composer achieves the expressiveness of a poetic text by clearly dividing the musical stanza into microstructures, each of which has an intonation-specific peak (see example 1). Emphasis on significant words (see bar 3) occurs due to the special arrangement of the chord (sixth chord with a double fifth in the soprano and alto parts), and an intonation jump in the upper leading voice.

Example 1. P.I. Tchaikovsky “The golden cloud spent the night”, stanza No. 1

Micro melodic-verbal structural elements in V.Ya. Shebalin are organically integrated into the musical and poetic stanza (see example 2), which represents a single syntax characteristic of a Russian drawn-out song.

Example 2. V.Ya. Shebalin “Cliff”, stanza No. 1

Considering the texture-functional interaction of voices, we will trace the following differences. As noted above, the work of P.I. Tchaikovsky is written in strict chordal polyphony with single-level sounding of voices. This is a homophonic warehouse of coloristic content with a leading soprano. In general, the semantic coloring of the texture is associated with the spiritual music of Russian religious chants (see example 1).

Genre and stylistic coloring of “The Cliff” by V.Ya. Shebalina reflects a special tradition of performing Russian folk songs, in particular the alternate entry of voices. Their textural interaction is not equally expressed in sound: attention switches from one voice to another (see example 2). In the choral composition, the composer uses different types of textured designs, which allows us to talk about the colorfulness of the texture solutions in general. Let's give examples. The artist begins the work by arranging the musical fabric in the style of subvocal polyphony with characteristic choruses, then he uses a homogeneous chord texture (see volume 11), in the last phase of dramatic development he creates contrasting textural layers, using the timbre coloring of different choral groups. The stratification of the texture occurs due to the isolation of the viola part, endowed with the main information load, and the group of bass and tenor parts, forming the background layer. The composer achieves the artistic effect of volumetric emotional content by isolating various structural and semantic planes of sound. This is achieved in the background layer by a single rhythmic and dynamic nuance, compaction of the choral sound due to the division of parts into divisi, the appearance of an ostinato tonic in the second bass part, which has a low overtone range, and the use of sonorous sound techniques. These characteristics form a gloomy phonic color of sound. In the same part of the work, as an element of intensifying expression, we observe the technique of imitating the picking up of the leading voice in the soprano part (vol. 16).

Dramaturgy of the poem by M.Yu. Lermontov is built on the antithesis of two images. How does P.I. draw out his characters? Chaikovsky? Taking advantage of the expressiveness of the choral-chord texture, the composer, highlighting key words, enhances the sonority of all voices, “takes” them into a high tessitura, and also uses stops on sustained sounds as a method of increasing sound energy when approaching the climax. Key semantic moments, for example, where the information content is refocused from the pictorial plane to the plane of the hero’s internal psychological state, the composer writes long pauses between words, giving them a significant semantic load. The artist highlights them with bright harmonic shifts, dynamic nuances, and a special tempo.

For example, in the poetic line “... but a wet trace remained in the wrinkle of the old cliff,” Tchaikovsky creates the following syntactic construction highlighting the reference tones of intonation cells.

Example 3. P.I. Tchaikovsky “The golden cloud spent the night”, stanza No. 3

The composer introduces unexpected syncopation into the last micro melodic-verbal structure, which emphasizes the peculiarity of the key word as the pinnacle of a musical phrase.

Having various texture types in his arsenal, Shebalin “regulates” the variability of sound content, activating its vertical or horizontal coordinates. The composer constructs his musical stanza differently. He begins it using a characteristic genre-stylistic chorus (introduction of the bass line, then pick-up of the altos), carrying an impulse of horizontal melodic energy, but then to highlight the word “in a wrinkle” he changes the textural position. The author builds a polyphonic structure into a chord vertical and in this musical staticity the declamatory clarity and significance of the key word “pops up”. In the statics of musical development, other colors of the word appear: articulatory presentation, timbre-register background of its sound, harmonic color. Thus, by changing the textured perspective, the composer “highlights” the small details of the image, while maintaining the overall sound movement.

Unlike P.I. Tchaikovsky, V.Ya. Shebalin uses a wide timbre-register range of choral parts, switching on and off various voices, and the timbre dramaturgy of choral groups.

Example 4. V.Ya. Shebalin “Cliff”, stanza No. 3

To summarize: the path from P.I. Tchaikovsky to V.Ya. Shebalin is a path to concretizing the word by means of music, finding an increasingly subtle parity relationship and interaction with the musical component, built on unity and balance. This is finding a balance in a polyphonic sound movement between the dynamic unfolding of events and staticity, highlighting the main milestones of the semantic context. This is the creation of an enveloping textured background that creates an emotional depth of content, allowing the listener to perceive the beauty of the facets of the image, the gradation of the sensual palette. The evolutionary processes of the second half of the twentieth century increasingly asserted in choral miniature its leading root, genre feature - the collapse of meaning in the diffuse interaction of musical and poetic text.

Reviewers:

Krylova A.V., Doctor of Cultural Studies, Professor of the Rostov State Conservatory. S.V. Rachmaninov, Rostov-on-Don;

Taraeva G.R., Doctor of Art History, Professor of the Rostov State Conservatory named after. S.V. Rachmaninov, Rostov-on-Don.

The work was received by the editor on July 23, 2014.

Bibliographic link

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CHORAL MINIATURE IN RUSSIAN MUSICAL CULTURE:

HISTORY AND THEORY

Specialty 17.00.02 – art history

Thesis

for the degree of candidate of art history



Scientific director:

Doctor of Cultural Studies, Candidate of Art History, Professor Alexandra Vladimirovna Krylova Rostov-on-Don

Introduction

Chapter 1. Choral miniature in historical and cultural context.

philosophical foundations

1.2. Choral miniature in the context of the traditions of Russian art.................. 19

1.3. Research approaches to the study of choral miniatures........... 28 1.3.1. A textual approach to the study of the choral miniature genre

1.3.2. Choral miniature: a structural approach to the analysis of poetic and musical texts.

Chapter 2. Choral miniature in the works of composers of the Russian school: historical and cultural background, formation and development of the genre

2.1. Musical and poetic mutual influence and its role in the formation of the genre of choral miniature

2.2. Choral miniature as a theoretical definition.

2.3. Crystallization of the features of the choral miniature genre in the works of Russian composers of the 19th century

Chapter 3. Choral miniature in the musical culture of the twentieth century.

3.1. Genre situation of the 20th century:

sociocultural context of the genre’s existence.

3.2. The evolution of the choral miniature genre in the second half of the 20th century

3.3 Main vectors of development of the genre.

3.3.1. Choral miniature cultivating classical reference points.

3.3.2. Choral miniature, focused on Russian national traditions.

3.3.3. Choral miniature influenced by new stylistic trends of the 60s

Conclusion

Bibliography.

INTRODUCTION

Relevance research. Choral art is a fundamental part of Russian culture. The abundance of bright groups is direct evidence of the vitality of domestic choral traditions, confirmed today by many festivals and competitions of choral music at various levels. Such “bubbling content” of choral performance is a natural source of unabated composer interest in this genre area.

In the variety of genres of choral music, choral miniature occupies a special place. Its development and demand for practice are due to a number of reasons. One of them is reliance on the root basis of the entire array of choral genres - the primary genre of Russian folk song, representing the basic small form from which other, more complex genre types developed. The other is in the specificity of miniature forms, with a characteristic focus on one emotional state, deeply felt and meaningful, with a finely detailed nuance of feelings and moods conveyed through an exquisite sound-colored choral palette. The third is in the peculiarities of perception of the modern listener, endowed, as a result of the influence of television, with a clip consciousness, gravitating towards fragmentation, the short length of sound “frames”, and the beauty of the “surface”.

However, the demand for the genre in performing practice has not yet been supported by scientific justification of its nature. It can be stated that in modern Russian musicological literature there are no works devoted to the history and theory of this phenomenon. It should also be noted that in modern art the desire to miniaturize form with depth of content is one of the characteristic general trends, predetermined by a new round of understanding of the philosophical problem of the relationship between the macro and micro worlds.

In the genre of choral miniatures, this problem is particularly acute due to the fact that the embodiment of the macroworld within this genre is the choral principle, but, thanks to the special laws of compression of form and meaning, it turns out to be collapsed into the format of the microworld. It is obvious that this complex process requires its own study, since it reflects the general patterns of modern culture. The above determines the relevance of the research topic.

The object of research is Russian choral music of the twentieth century.

Subject of study– formation and development of the genre of choral miniatures in domestic musical culture.

The purpose of the study is to substantiate the genre nature of choral miniatures, allowing for the identification of small-volume choral works with the principles and aesthetics of miniatures. The set goal determined the following tasks:

– to identify the genesis of miniatures in the traditions of Russian culture;

– characterize the main parameters that allow one to attribute the genre;

– consider the choral miniature as an artistic object of art;

– explore the path of evolution of the genre in the context of Russian musical culture of the 20th century;

– analyze the features of the individual interpretation of the choral miniature genre in the works of Russian composers of the second half of the twentieth century.

Goal and tasks The works determined its methodological basis. It is built comprehensively on the basis of theoretical scientific developments and works of scientists - musicologists and literary critics, as well as an analysis of the work of composers of the 19th - 20th centuries. The dissertation uses methods of cultural-historical, structural-functional, axiological, and comparative analysis.

Research materials. Due to the breadth of the problem field of the stated topic, the scope of the dissertation research is limited to consideration of the process of development of choral miniatures in Russian secular art of the 19th – 20th centuries. The empirical material was a cappella choirs, as they most clearly embody the idea of ​​miniaturization in choral music. The work uses the works of M. Glinka, A. Dargomyzhsky, P. Tchaikovsky, N. Rimsky-Korsakov, M. Mussorgsky, S. Taneyev, A. Arensky, P. Chesnokov, A. Kastalsky, V. Shebalin, G. Sviridov, V. Salmanova, E. Denisova, A. Schnittke, R. Shchedrin, S. Gubaidullina, S. Slonimsky, V. Gavrilin, Y. Falik, R. Ledeneva, V. Krasnoskulov, V. Kikty, V. Khodosha.

The degree of scientific development of the topic. Problems of the history and theory of the choral miniature genre have not been sufficiently developed in musicology.

In modern scientific research there are no works that make it possible to identify a small choral work with the principles and aesthetics of a miniature. However, art criticism, literary studies, cultural studies and musicology works of various problematic orientations contain a number of ideas and provisions that are conceptually significant for this dissertation.

In this work, a philosophical generalization of the phenomenon, positioning the choral miniature as a semblance of a macrosystem and allowing us to determine its place in culture, its role in human experience, was formed on the basis of the works of M. Bakhtin, H. Gadamer, M. Druskin, T. Zhavoronkova, M. Kagan, S. Konenko, G. Kolomiets, A. Korshunova, Y. Keldysh, I. Loseva, A. Nozdrina, V. Sukhantseva, P. Florensky.

Identification of the stages of assimilation of the experience of miniaturization by various types of Russian art required turning to the works of musical, historical and cultural content by B. Asafiev, E. Berdennikova, A. Belonenko, G. Grigorieva, K. Dmitrevskaya, S. Lazutin, L. Nikitina, E. Orlova, Yu Paisov, V. Petrov-Stromsky, N. Sokolov. The sociological aspect was included in the problem area, which led to the involvement of the ideas of A. Sokhor and E. Dukov.

The presentation of the genre as a multi-component gene structure, with interdependent and interdependent levels, was based on the multi-aspect approach to the category of genre that had emerged in musicology, which entailed turning to the research of M. Aranovsky, S. Averintsev, Yu. Tynyanov, A. Korobova, E. Nazaikinsky, O Sokolov, A. Sokhor, S. Skrebkov, V. Zuckerman.

The analysis of musical works, with the help of which the features of the vocal-choral form were identified, was carried out based on the works of K. Dmitrevskaya, I. Dabaeva, A. Krylova, I. Lavrentieva, E. Ruchevskaya, L. Shaimukhametova. Valuable clarifications were gleaned from the work of A. Khakimova on the theory of the a cappella choir genre. The means of expressiveness of choral texture were considered on the basis of the works of V. Krasnoshchekov, P. Levando, O. Kolovsky, P. Chesnokov, and collections of scientific articles edited by V. Protopopov, V. Fraenov.

When studying samples of choral music from the position of the musical and poetic nature of the genre and their close interaction with other types of arts, we used the provisions and conclusions contained in the works of S. Averintsev, V. Vasina-Grossman, V. Vanslov, M. Gasparov, K. Zenkin, S. Lazutin, Y. Lotman, E. Ruchevskaya, Y. Tynyanov, B. Eikhenbaum, S. Eisenstein.

Scientific novelty The research is that for the first time:

– a definition of the genre of choral miniature has been formulated, allowing for genre attribution of small-form choral works;

– a study of the nature of the genre of choral miniatures was carried out through the prism of philosophical knowledge about the macro and microworlds, revealing endless semantic possibilities for the embodiment of artistic ideas in a compressed content field, up to the reflection in the phenomenon of miniatures of significant attributes of the image of culture;

– small forms of various types of Russian art are considered in order to identify their generic characteristics and features, which in a melted and indirect form constitute the genotype of the genre.

– the role of various musical genres – the historical predecessors of choral miniature – in the formation of its genre features is revealed;

– the historically changing configuration of genre features of choral miniatures in the socio-cultural context of the 20th century has been studied.

Submitted for defense the following provisions:

– The genre of choral miniature is a small-scale musical work a sarpella, based on a multi-level syncresis of words and music (background, lexical, syntactic, compositional, semantic), providing a time-concentrated, deep disclosure of the lyrical type of imagery, reaching symbolizing intensity.

– A miniature is a kind of analogy to the macrosystem in which it is inscribed - art, culture, nature. Being a microcosm in relation to the actually existing macrocosm of man, it is capable of reflecting the complex properties of living matter as a result of the concentration of multifaceted meanings in a small literary text. As a result of the process of miniaturization, a compression of the sign system occurs, where the sign acquires the meaning of an image-symbol. Thanks to semantic coding, the possibility of operating with entire “semantic complexes”, their comparison and generalization is created.

– The genetic roots of choral miniatures are inextricably linked with examples of small forms of various arts, their poetics and aesthetics. Within the framework of miniature genres and forms of Russian art, significant features for choral miniature were formed, such as the refinement of a small form, a high level of artistry stemming from the filigree, sophisticated craftsmanship of the manufacturer, the specificity of the content - emotional and ideological concentration, the depth of understanding of the world and human feelings, functional purpose .

– The process of crystallization of the genre took place on the basis of active inter-genre interaction, as well as increasing mutual influence of the musical and poetic arts. As a result of these processes, at the beginning of the twentieth century, a genre was formed in which the musical element reaches the limit of artistic expressiveness in synthesis with the poetic form.

– The author’s approaches to creating a new type of imagery in choral miniatures of the second half of the twentieth century are characterized by the expansion of genre boundaries due to transformations of the musical language and the saturation of the genre model with extra-musical factors. The use of different types of techniques by composers in synthesis with old traditions, giving genre elements a new semantic coloring has formed the modern facets of the choral miniature genre.

Theoretical significance The research is determined by the fact that a number of developed provisions significantly complement the accumulated knowledge about the nature of the genre under study. The work provided a detailed argumentation and analytical evidence base for questions that underpin the possibility of further scientific search for the features of this genre type. Among them are the analysis of the phenomenon of miniaturization in art from the point of view of philosophical knowledge, the identification of the poetics of miniatures in various types of Russian art, the justification of the genre characteristics of choral miniatures in its difference from small forms, the special role in the process of crystallization of the genre of individual interpretation of the genre model by Russian composers of the second half of the twentieth century and others.

Practical significance The research is due to the fact that the presented materials will significantly expand the possibilities of applying scientific knowledge in the field of practice, since they can be an integral part of courses in the history of music and analysis of forms of music schools and universities, in music programs for secondary schools, and will also be useful in the work of choirmasters.

Dissertation structure. The dissertation consists of an introduction, three chapters, a conclusion, and a list of references from 242 sources.

CHORAL MINIATURE

IN THE HISTORICAL AND CULTURAL CONTEXT

The problems of the first chapter, at first glance, are far from studying the choral miniature in its immanent musical properties. However, the questions introduced here from the perspective of the dissertation and related to the philosophical foundations of the genre, the general cultural context that reveals its genesis, as well as methodological approaches to the analysis of the phenomenon under study, are of paramount importance. From our point of view, they are the foundation of those theoretical conclusions about the nature of the genre that were made in the second and third chapters of the work and form the basis for the analysis of specific musical material. In support of this, we emphasize that the interdisciplinary approach, which determined the logic of the dissertation research from the general to the specific, is predetermined not only by the nature of the chosen topic. It is based on the principles of classical Russian musicology, brilliantly substantiated in his time by L.A. Mazelem. Let us point out two positions that are significant for this work. Firstly, the researcher pointed to the philosophical and methodological basis of all sciences

Which he took for granted, and secondly, he adhered to the position that “... the achievements and methods of other sciences, which are now of greatest importance for musicology, are determined ... by the closely interconnected ideas of the three areas of knowledge.” It was about psychology, sociology, semiotics, and L.A. Mazel emphasized that “for musicology, the achievements of the theory of other arts and aesthetics are important, often, in turn, associated with the psychological and systemic-semiotic approach...”.

In accordance with the stated guidelines, the first paragraph of this chapter is devoted to the general philosophical foundations of the processes of miniaturization1 in art. The second explores the commonality of miniature forms in different types of Russian art, emphasizing their common theoretical and aesthetic essence, and the third is devoted to the analysis of research approaches, among which semiotics plays a special role, in accordance with the musical and poetic nature of the choral miniature genre.

1.1. Miniaturization in musical and choral art:

philosophical foundations What is the significance of the philosophical aspect of the problem? Philosophical reflection gives an understanding of art as a whole, as well as its individual work, from the point of view of fixing in it the deep meanings associated with the nature of the universe, the purpose and meaning of human life.

It is no coincidence that the beginning of the 21st century was marked by the special attention of music science to philosophical thought, which helps to comprehend a number of categories that are significant for the art of music. This is largely due to the fact that, in the light of changes in the modern concept of the picture of the world, in which Man and the Universe are mutually determined and interdependent, anthropological ideas have acquired new significance for art, and the most important directions of philosophical thought have turned out to be closely related to axiological problems.

It is significant in this regard that also in the work “The Value of Music”

B.V. Asafiev, philosophically interpreting music, gave it a broader meaning, interpreted it as a phenomenon that unites “the deep structures of existence with the human psyche, which naturally exceeds the boundaries of the type of art or artistic activity.” The scientist saw in music not a reflection of the reality of our lives and experiences, but a reflection of the “picture of the world.” He believed that through knowledge the term “miniaturization” is not the author’s own, but is generally accepted in modern art criticism literature.

analysis of the musical process, one can come closer to understanding the formalized world order, since “the process of sound formation in itself is a reflection of the “picture of the world”, and he placed music itself as an activity “in a series of world positions” (constructions of the world), giving rise to a microcosm - a system, synthesizing maximum into minimum.

The last remark is especially significant for the topic under study, since it contains a focus on the analysis of arguments that reveal the relevance of trends in modern culture, focused on miniatures in art. The foundations of these processes were primarily comprehended in the field of philosophical knowledge, within the framework of which the problem of the relationship between the big and the small - the macro and microworld - runs through it. Let's look at this in more detail.

At the end of the 20th century, in world philosophy and science, there was an active revival of traditional philosophical concepts and categories that reflect the integrity of the world and man. Using the macrocosm-microcosm analogy allows us to consider and explain the relationships “nature-culture” and “culture-human”. This reflection of the structure of life led to the emergence of a new methodological position, where Man comprehends the laws of the surrounding world and recognizes himself as the crown of nature’s creation. He begins to penetrate into the depths of his own psychological essence, “breaks”

the sensory world into a spectrum of different shades, grades emotional states, operates with subtle psychological experiences. He tries to reflect the variability of the world in himself in the sign system of language, to stop and capture its fluidity in perception.

Reflection, from the point of view of philosophy, is “the interaction of material systems, where the systems mutually imprint each other’s properties, the “transfer” of the characteristics of one phenomenon to another, and, first of all, the “transfer” of structural characteristics.” Therefore, the reflection of life meaning in a literary text can be interpreted as “the structural correspondence of these systems established in the process of interaction.”

In the light of these provisions, we will determine that miniaturization is a reflection of the complex, fleeting properties of living matter, “folding,” or a fragmentarily captured process of interaction between systems, conveyed in the formation of the meaning of an artistic text. Its essence is the compactness of the sign system, where the sign acquires the meaning of an image-symbol. Thanks to semantic coding, the possibility of operating with entire “semantic complexes”, their comparison and generalization is created1.

Having outlined the problem of the relationship between the macro and microworlds, which is fundamentally important for understanding the essence of miniatures, and which took shape as an independent concept by the twentieth century, we will point out that philosophy has accumulated a lot of valuable information that allows us to deeply imagine the essence of the genre of choral miniatures. Let's look at them in historical retrospect.

The meaning of the concept of macro and microcosm dates back to ancient times. In the philosophy of Democritus, the combination mikroskosmos (“man is a small world”) first appears. A detailed doctrine of the micro- and macrocosm was already presented by Pythagoras. Related in the ideological sense was the principle of knowledge put forward by Empedocles - “like is known by like.” Socrates argued that knowledge of the cosmos could be gained "from within man." Assumptions about the commonality of existing man and the universe Penetrating into the essence of the phenomenon of text miniaturization, let us compare it with a similar phenomenon in internal human speech. Modern science has obtained experimental data that specifies the mechanism of interaction between words and thoughts, language and thinking. It has been established that internal speech, which, in turn, arises from external speech, accompanies all processes of mental activity. The degree of its significance increases with abstract logical thinking, which requires detailed pronunciation of words. Verbal signs not only record thoughts, but also operate on the thinking process. These functions are common to both natural and artificial languages. A.M. Korshunov writes: “As a generalized logical scheme of the material is created, inner speech collapses. This is explained by the fact that generalization occurs by highlighting key words in which the meaning of the entire phrase, and sometimes the entire text, is concentrated. Inner speech turns into a language of semantic support points."

can be traced in the works of Plato. Aristotle also talks about the small and large cosmos. This concept developed in the philosophy of Seneca, Origen, Gregory the Theologian, Boethius, Thomas Aquinas and others.

The idea of ​​macrocosm and microcosm became especially flourishing during the Renaissance. Great thinkers - Giordano Bruno, Paracelsus, Nikolai Cusansky - were united by the idea that nature, in the person of man, contains mental and sensory nature and “contracts” the entire Universe within itself.

Based on the historically developing postulate about the correspondence of the macro and microworlds, we conclude that the macrocosm of culture is similar to the microcosm of art, and the macrocosm of art is similar to the microcosm of miniatures. It, reflecting the world of the individual in contemporary art, is a semblance of the macrosystem into which it is inscribed (art, culture, nature).

The dominance of the ideas of macro and micro worlds in Russian philosophy determined the significant guidelines under the sign of which choral art evolved. Thus, to develop the problem of miniaturization in art, the idea of ​​conciliarity is essential, introducing an element of philosophical creativity into Russian music. This concept is initially associated with the choral principle, which is confirmed by its use in this perspective by Russian philosophers. In particular, “K.S. Aksakov identifies the concept of “conciliarity” with a community where “the individual is free as in a choir.” ON THE. Berdyaev defines conciliarity as an Orthodox virtue, Vyach. Ivanov – as an ideal value. P. Florensky reveals the idea of ​​conciliarity through a Russian plangent song. V.S. Solovyov transforms the idea of ​​conciliarity into the doctrine of unity."

It is obvious that conciliarity is the fundamental national basis of Russian art, “reflecting the global unity of people on the basis of special spiritual creativity,” which deeply affects the spiritual world of a person, “expands the boundaries of the capabilities of an individual.”

These aspects of national culture determined the specific features of the Old Russian choral tradition: “the first is conciliarity, i.e. the unification of the heavenly and earthly forces of the universe in one matter and one task on the basis of Truth, Goodness and Beauty; the second is cordiality, the ability to unite hearts, singing in a feeling of openness to divine truth; third - multi-chanting (great znamenny, travel, demesne chants); fourth - melody, breadth, smoothness, length, melodiousness, majestic slowdowns in the finales of choral works."

The humanistic ideas of Renaissance philosophy, which placed the creative personality at the center of attention, determined the emergence of a new musical picture of the world. The anthropological principle found its manifestation in Russian art of the 18th – 19th centuries. Thus, the development of secular professional music in the 17th century reaches qualitatively new achievements, which concerns, first of all, the area of ​​content. Moreover, the secular penetrates into church music itself, changing its character and methods of implementation. “Polyphonic partes singing with its clear rhythmicity of musical structures, cadences and sound effects (contrasting the sonority of solo and tutti) introduces a person into a limited current time, directs his attention outward - into space, into the surrounding sensory world.”

A.P. Nozdrina characterizes this period as follows: “The reflection of the direction of time descends from the ideal to the material sphere. It is filled with the sensory world of man, the affirmation of his power, and the beauty of the human voice gains independence. The musician’s creativity, his artistic “I” is perceived through the realities of the objective world. As a result of this, different musical directions appear, in line with which the process of miniaturization develops in various types of art: portrait sketches, narrative lyrics, expressive and figurative miniatures. In the musical creativity of this time, the ancient musical traditions of church choral music, expressing collective consciousness, and new trends reflecting the personal beginning, human psychology and everyday life intersected... Thus, Russian philosophers and musicians of the 19th and early 20th centuries sought to create a “new humanism” in which the question was raised not only of the individual, but also of society, the relationships between people, the connection of individual freedom with social liberation.”

The musical art of this period is also a reflection of the complex processes of socio-political life. The idea of ​​conciliarity began to acquire an exaggerated interpretation. Choral creativity, being the oldest tradition of Russian musical culture, which has the character of conciliarity, continues to develop only on a secular basis.

The worldview crisis that emerged at the turn of the century under the influence of scientific and technological progress defines a new perspective for understanding the spiritual kinship of the human world and the natural world. The pathos of scientific works of foreign thinkers is close to the saying of N.A. Berdyaev: “Personality is not a part of the world, but a correlative of the world. Undoubtedly, personality is a whole, not a part. Personality is a microcosm." Because of this, miniaturization acquires the features of a stable trend in the development of certain spheres of culture of the 20th century, and becomes a phenomenon that captures a special artistic attitude to the world on a modern historical basis. Small objects carry the spiritual image of the era through artistic and figurative forms of reproducing reality. S.A. Konenko writes that miniature “discovers a unique feature not observed in other types of art: compression of the signs of culture to an extremely concentrated form, giving it a bright expressive form of value quintessence. Signs of culture in this form become iconic, symbolic in a certain sense: in conciseness the most significant and indicative attributes of the image of culture reveal themselves.”

Indeed, by the middle of the twentieth century, miniature to a certain extent became one of the signs of modern culture, demonstrating its value dominants, the level of development of science, technology, art, and spirit.

Let us give reasons for what has been said. Modern culture as a sum of cultural sentiments and philosophical concepts is called postmodern culture. Among the most relevant achievements of philosophical thought of this type of culture is the idea of ​​​​the plurality of ways of knowing, which elevates art to the rank of the latter and gives it extraordinary value in shaping the worldview of mankind. Using the macrocosm-microcosm analogy, postmodern thinking presents it as a method of understanding the world and puts forward the thesis about the unity of the entire flow of life (vegetative, animal, and the life of consciousness). The specificity of postmodern art is the expansion of the range of artistic vision and techniques of artistic creativity, a new approach to classical traditions. N.B. writes about this. Mankovskaya, Yu.B. Borev, V.O. Pigulevsky. One of these postmodern trends is choral miniature.

Because of this, starting from the second half of the 20th century, the genre of choral miniatures acquired a new quality. It is closely connected with general cultural processes, in particular, with the strengthening of the social function of art, the conditions that have arisen for its openness to the world cultural space, the recognition of works of this type of creativity as public domain, in connection with the development of means of communication, addressed not to a narrow circle of connoisseurs, but to a wide listening audience. A choral miniature is “a micro-similarity of the macrocosm of culture, with its characteristic characteristics and qualities,” modern people are able to perceive not only as a culturally significant object, but “as an expression of a cultural and philosophical concept in general.”

So, concluding our brief excursion, let us once again emphasize the main thing that allows us to understand the nature of the genre under study, considered through the prism of the philosophical doctrine of macro and micro worlds:

– a miniature, being a product of art and a cultural artifact, is similar to space, culture, man, that is, it is a reflected microcosm in relation to the really existing macrocosm of man;

– the object of a miniature (as an object of art embedded in culture) is a microcosm with all its elements, processes, patterns, which is similar to the macrocosm in its principles of organization, the boundlessness of phenomena;

– a reflection of the complex, fleeting properties of living matter is a “collapse” of the process of formation of the meaning of an artistic text, that is, its miniaturization. Its essence is the compactness of the sign system, where the sign acquires the meaning of an image-symbol. Thanks to semantic coding, the possibility of operating with entire “semantic complexes”, their comparison and generalization is created;

– the depth of philosophical knowledge contained in the miniatures of Russian composers is derived from the idea of ​​conciliarity;

– the dominance of ideas of macro and micro worlds in Russian philosophy determined significant ideas, under the sign of which choral art evolved - from large choral canvases to miniatures, from the collective choral principle - to the subjective-individual;

– the art of miniature, born in past centuries, strengthens its importance in modern culture. The content of “information”, the multiplicity of musical and extra-musical connections includes the miniature in the evolutionary process of complication of the cultural space. A miniature in modern art is a kind of analogy to the macrosystem in which it is inscribed: art, culture, nature.

1.2. Choral miniature in the context of Russian art traditions

Consideration of the miniature from the point of view of the projection of the philosophical problem of the relationship between the micro and macro worlds, which made it possible to identify the pattern of development of art in the direction of miniaturization of forms with their meaningful multidimensionality, allows us to assert that the world of the Russian choral miniature genre, full of the brightest artistic discoveries of the past and present, has an extraordinary appeal. However, here it is necessary to emphasize the special role of the culture of romanticism and voice the idea that the phenomenon of musical miniature is a concentrated “formula” of the poetics of romanticism, which arose in Western European piano music at the turn of the 18th – 19th centuries and was reflected in Russian art.

It is interesting that the roots of this phenomenon, having sprouted in Russian choral music, were distinguished by the originality of the national “reworking” of romantic trends.

For example, choral miniatures created at the beginning of the century by S.I. Taneyev cannot be compared with the works of piano miniatures by F. Mendelssohn, F. Chopin and others in terms of concentration of romantic impulse. In the choral fabric of Taneiev's choirs, the deep revelation of personality is assimilated in the special restraint of the polyphonic principle, combined with folk melodies, with echoes of cult chants. In this regard, before considering the general context of the traditions of Russian art associated with the genres and forms of miniatures, and tracing the general cultural roots of the genre under study, let us turn to the pages of history concerning the introduction of romantic trends into Russian art.

Communication with Western European romanticism was filled with a tense dialectic of attraction and repulsion. Back in the 17th century, signs of acceptance of Western European culture with a negative attitude towards their own, traditional culture appeared in Russia. This process began with the reign of Peter I. “Peter attached extremely great importance to the Russian borderland, moving the capital of the state to the very edge of the state... he attached primary importance to the piers of this capital... The piers of St. Petersburg, however, marked not only the acceptance of a “different” culture, but also negative attitude towards one’s own, traditional one.

It is important, however, that this did not lead to the complete destruction of traditional ancient Russian culture, but only to the bifurcation of Russian culture into two channels.

One channel led culture along the very border with Western Europe, and the other separated hostilely from the West - this is the culture of the Old Believers and the peasantry, which survived until the twentieth century, in which the life of folk culture continued.” Thus, comprehending the historical fate of Russia, which gave it a vector of two-basic development of culture, in the process of the formation of Russian romantic consciousness, we can state the absorption of the general experience of European romanticism, on the one hand, and the emergence of Russian romanticism in the depths of national culture, on the other.

The romantic mood of Russian society was promoted by the victory in the War of 1812, which showed the greatness and strength of the Russian people. Russian social consciousness of the 19th century developed and developed new ideas that revealed a rational view of the world, drew attention to the problem of man - to the meaning of his life, morality, creativity, aesthetic views, which, of course, prepared the ground for the perception of a new direction. Russian philosophical thought continued to resolve the controversial issue of Western (P.Ya. Chaadaev) and original Russian views (A.S. Khomyakov, I.V. Kireevsky) on the past, present and future of Russia, which went down in history as a confrontation between Westerners and Slavophiles. But the historical and philosophical ideas of Western European culture (F.V. Schelling, G.V. Hegel) have already declared an understanding of the essence of style, which so deeply reflected the time: “In the romantic period, form falls under the power of content. The image of a god is replaced by the image of a knight. The extinction of classical art is not a decline, but only a transition from contemplation to representation... The spiritual principle triumphs over the material, the balance of the spiritual and material, as it was in the classical era, is disrupted, music and poetry begin to predominate. In music, an artist can show more freedom than in other types of art."

Intense communication with Western European romanticism, its philosophical concept (F.V. Schelling, G.V. Hegel), mature ideas of Russian thought about the national peculiarities of the development of Russia, and the preparedness of public consciousness led to the emergence of a certain Russian understanding of the essence of this artistic phenomenon. “Romanticism,” wrote Apollo Grigoriev, “and, moreover, ours, Russian, developed and distinguished itself in our original forms, romanticism was not a simple literary, but a life phenomenon, an entire era of moral development, which had its own special color, putting into practice a special view... Let the romantic trend came from outside, from Western literature and Western life, it found in Russian nature soil ready for its perception - and therefore was reflected in phenomena that were completely original...”

First of all, these phenomena were different from Western ones - less implementation of the subjectivity of creative consciousness and orientation towards the fundamental tradition of Russian Orthodoxy - the subordination of individual consciousness to ideas developed collectively in the distant past.

Perhaps that is why, having brought the genre of choral miniatures to the cultural and historical arena, Russian art, in its original romantic worldview, combined the traditions of song, as a national feature of its culture, and the pathos of Orthodoxy, based on “conciliarity,” which represented the principles of organizing individuals with a common goal , but choosing an individual path to it. K. Zenkin, defining the essence of a piano miniature, writes that it is “instantaneity, the immediacy of an image, the time of lyrical experience, the crystallization of a single state during its internal development.”

Correlating these definitions with the choral appearance of the miniature, it is possible to assume that all these features are present to one degree or another in the genre we are studying. For example, the crystallization of a single emotional mode was developed in ancient psalmodic singing, in Znamenny chant, where there was a concentration on the psychological state of the person praying, on a certain mental experience. The special spirituality of Znamenny chant was further preserved in partes singing. Of significant importance, in our opinion, was the peculiarity of the liturgical rite, in which the singer could creatively, with the help of melodic chants, highlight “this or that idea of ​​the text, according to the spiritual tone in which he perceived it.”

He revealed his feelings to the praying parishioners, calling them to corresponding emotions in the process of prayer. Hence the genetic roots of the “inner, psychological” revealed in the public atmosphere.

All this contributed to the emergence of the choral type of miniature - a new variety of miniature genres, in which the ancient traditions of national musical culture were melted.

The result of the evolution of Russian culture not only endowed the choral miniature with all the achievements of choral art, but also presented it as a vivid reflection of romantic aesthetics, new ideas about the deep unity of all types of arts, about the possibility of their mixing and synthesis. As a result, it would be logical to consider the origins of the choral miniature not only from the perspective of its development in one generic art, but also to determine the role of prototype genres in other types of artistic creativity. They, like small precious grains, scattered in different historical eras and arts, carrying the aesthetic essential beauty of the genre of small form, absorbing and synthesizing the principles of expressiveness of different types of arts, represent the “biography” of the artistic phenomenon of choral miniature.

Let us turn to some types of Russian art, in small forms of which the features of the miniature genre were formed, adopted by the choral miniature of the era of romanticism. Its genetic roots go back to ancient times, appealing to the work of Russian icon painters of the 10th – 12th centuries. As you know, the icon and fresco were designed to depict the divine world. The artistic quality of any image in the temple was understood as secondary to its main purpose - the reproduction of a sacred event. The truth of images (both verbal and colorful), understood in the spirit of sensory-material identity with the prototype, is infinitely more important than their beauty. The similarity of the face of the icon to a human image, its appeal to the inner world of the person praying, that is, the deep human essence of art will be “absorbed” by subsequent eras, and will become, in particular, an important component of the aesthetics of romanticism.

I.N. Loseva writes: “In ancient times, the word was given extraordinary importance. ““Say” and “create” were identical concepts.

The word, as defined by ancient philosophy, was considered a model of the world, including material, sensory and ideal elements."

To this we can rightfully add one more identical concept “to represent”. Confirmation of this is the accompaniment of capital letters in handwritten books with drawings that reveal the deep ideological meaning of the texts. Later, book miniatures materialized spiritual content in the depiction of symbols, in ornaments and, finally, in the characters of book fonts themselves. As the researcher of Novgorod art E.S. writes. Smirnov, this is “a sign, a symbol of the holiness of the text, a warning and accompaniment to the deep content of the book.” Some front manuscripts contain miniature decorations that authentically illustrate the text.

They really have the qualities of a special art, as if aware of their small size and not inclined to copy the techniques of monumental painting. The objectification of the semantic and emotional content of the book text, in combination with the decorative function, will be perceived by the choral miniature and will subsequently introduce figurative features into it, which will be expressed in a tendency towards programmatic and decorative features.

Another important source shaping the genesis of the future choral miniature was folklore. Epics, fairy tales, proverbs, sayings created the poetics of small forms in ancient Russian literature, they revealed the capacity of the word, the aphorism of the statement, collecting the most valuable meaning for a person, “connection with the situation, everyday life, the compositional structure of the text developed, speech intonation was honed” 1. All this experience of literary art will be taken up by the choral miniature. In this regard, it is interesting to note that the originality of the compositions of epics and fairy tales was associated with such “microelements” as “chorus”, “outcome” and “saying”. For example, a fairy-tale saying, small in size, set the listener up for an entertaining narrative, emphasizing the fictionality and fantastic nature of the fairy tale. And the epic choruses, despite their laconicism, painted majestic pictures of nature, conveyed solemn pathos, and set the listener up to perceive something important and significant. The functional role of these sections was to foreshadow, anticipate the plot, create a certain mood in a small poetic structure. These features, which existed in the art of music in the form of introductions to various forms and preludes, undoubtedly contained features that indirectly influenced the genre of miniatures.

Let's turn to musical art. EAT. Orlova points out that by the 15th century, the genre of lyric lingering song was being formed in Russian folklore. Unlike epics and fairy tales, which necessarily had a detailed plot, the lingering song was based on a compressed plot situation, close to the way of life of people, which was the reason for you. more details: In folk lyrical songs, along with the wealth of expressed thoughts and feelings, those life circumstances, all kinds of plot-descriptive situations that caused them, are quite vividly depicted.

expressions of certain feelings and thoughts. In the synthesis of words and musical intonation, the Russian song cantilena gave birth to an inexhaustible potential of psychological expressiveness, which had an undoubted influence on the nature of choral miniatures.

Considering the context of different types of art, within the framework of which certain principles of expressiveness were formed, essential for the formation of the characteristics of the miniature, it becomes obvious that this process continued in the 16th century. The art of this time rushed from church asceticism to secularism, from abstraction to real human emotions and clarity of thought. These themes were clearly manifested in Russian architecture. “The architect-poet... combined sculpture, which covered the facades he created with carvings, and painting,... and music, which set the bells in motion.” The reliefs that decorated the cathedrals of Moscow, Vologda, Novgorod were plastic carvings, which revealed a desire for three-dimensional volume and bold angles of figures. The sculptural talent of Russian masters was also reflected in small sculptures: icons, stonework, panagia crosses (wood, stone, bone). By the nature of the interpretation of the form, they can be compared with a sculptural relief; by the thoroughness of the work, the miniature of the details - with the art of jewelry.

These examples of small forms of fine art also carried specific features, which later manifested themselves indirectly in the choral miniature. First of all, this is the desire for spatiality, the subtle filigree of finishing the work.

The accumulation of artistic experience in small forms of various arts leads to the emergence of miniatures as an independent art form, which occurs at the turn of the 17th - 18th centuries in painting. Its heyday occurred in the 18th – 19th centuries and was associated with the development of the genre of portrait and landscape. At the very beginning of their journey, portrait and landscape miniatures were closely connected with oil painting. This connection was traced in the plots, in subordination to common aesthetic canons, and in general stylistic features. Because of this, at the beginning of the 18th century, miniatures were characterized by the pomp and decorativeness characteristic of painting. But gradually the miniature flows into the general mainstream of the development of graphic chamber portraiture. Miniatures are painted from life, become more spontaneous, convey the characteristic features of the model more vividly, and become democratic. The flourishing of this genre was associated with the advent of the chamber portrait, which revealed the seriousness and depth of the depicted image. The intimate and lyrical nature of the embodiment of themes originated from the traditions of painting by V.L. Borovikovsky and A.G. Venetsianova.

The miniature drew its special features not only from professional fine art, but also from folk art. It is connected with applied art with strong threads. In ancient times, miniatures were made on stone, wood, silver and copper casting. In a later period, craftsmen used porcelain, bone, gold, silver, terracotta, ceramics and other atypical materials. The development of traditional peasant and decorative-applied ancient Russian art, iconography and painting in the 18th century prepared the emergence of such an artistic phenomenon as Russian lacquer miniatures. The centers of this original art were Fedoskino, Palekh, and Mstera. Small engravings pasted onto boxes and snuff boxes, made from artistic originals, conveyed the fullness of the feeling of their native land, were saturated with emotional depth, in tune with the inner world of a person, and bore unique features of local color.

The pictorial techniques of artistic miniatures were formed in accordance with the Russian icon-painting tradition and Western European engraving, with Russian painting, which allowed it to combine religious feelings and secular views. The miniature bore the stamp of high fine art and at the same time was created in the format of applied folk art. This explained the appeal to fairy-tale, epic, historical, mythological subjects, or to pictures from modern life stylized in the same spirit. “Miniature painting is imbued with a special internal dynamics. In the complex play of rhythm, in the intersecting lines of figures, in the consonances of color masses and plans, echoes of folk song images are heard.” The musical image of the folk song was reflected in the artistic design and contributed to the emergence of the musical, rhythmic structure of the painting. Palekh lacquer miniatures are known for images written on the themes of Russian folk songs “Down along Mother, along the Volga”, “Here is the daring troika rushing”, etc. The miniature gave things not only spiritual significance. Precious in a spiritual sense, it was often made of high quality material, which gave it value in the literal sense of the word. The material used was associated with domestic gold and silver, porcelain and bone work, and with enamel skills. Particularly noteworthy is the exquisite painting with small dots, which developed in parallel with the stipple technique in metal engraving. The volume and spatiality of the image, the subtle technique of writing on precious materials, decorativeness, the “choral” method of execution, representing the experience of the school, the creative team, the continuity of traditions are the main aesthetic principles of varnishes, which were later embodied in the choral miniature.

Concluding the analysis of the genetic foundations of the genre of choral miniatures, it should be emphasized that the appearance of the first examples of choral miniatures in the 19th century, during the era of Russia’s assimilation of the achievements of Western romanticism, was undoubtedly associated with the generalization in it of the artistic experience of small forms of various types of Russian art. In artistic and creative activity, not only musical, but also far from the art of singing, while developing the ideology of small forms, significant features and generic features have developed for the genre of choral miniature. Namely: the refinement of a small form, a high level of artistry resulting from the filigree, sophisticated craftsmanship of the manufacturer, the specificity of the content - emotional and ideological concentration, the depth of understanding of the world and human feelings, functional purpose.

It is known that according to the general genre classification, all music is divided into vocal And instrumental. Vocal music can be solo, ensemble, or choral. In turn, choral creativity has its own varieties, which are called choral genres:

2) choral miniature;

3) large choir;

4) oratorio-cantata (oratorio, cantata, suite, poem, requiem, mass, etc.);

5) opera and other works related to stage action (independent choral number and choral scene);

6) processing;

7) arrangement.

Choral song (folk songs, songs for concert performance, choral mass songs) - the most democratic genre, characterized by a simple form (mainly verses) and simplicity of musical expressive means. Examples:

M. Glinka “Patriotic Song”

A. Dargomyzhsky “The Raven Flies to the Raven”

"From a land, a distant land"

A. Alyabyev “Song about a young blacksmith”

P. Tchaikovsky “Without time, without time”

P. Chesnokov “Not a flower withers in a field”

A. Novikov “Roads”

G. Sviridov “How the song was born”

Choral miniature - the most widespread genre, which is characterized by the richness and diversity of forms and means of musical expression. The main content is lyrics, conveying feelings and moods, landscape sketches. Examples:

F. Mendelssohn “Forest”

R. Schumann “Night Silence”

"Evening Star"

F. Schubert "Love"

"Round dance"

A. Dargomyzhsky “Come to me”

P. Tchaikovsky “Not a cuckoo”

S. Taneyev, “Serenade”

"Venice at night"

P. Chesnokov “Alps”

"August"

Ts. Cui “Everything fell asleep”

"Lighted in the distance"

V. Shebalin “Cliff”

"Winter road"

V. Salmanov “As you live, you can”

"Lion in an Iron Cage"

F. Poulenc “Sadness”

O. Lasso “I love you”

M. Ravel "Nicoletta"

P. Hindemith “Winter”

Large choir — Works of this genre are characterized by the use of complex forms (three-, five-part, rondo, sonata) and polyphony. The main content is dramatic collisions, philosophical reflections, lyrical-epic narratives. Examples:

A. Lotti “Crucifixus”.

C. Monteverdi “Madrigal”

M. Berezovsky “Don’t reject me”

D. Bortnyansky “Cherub”

"Choral Concert"

A. Dargomyzhsky “The storm covers the sky with darkness”

P. Tchaikovsky “For Sleep”

Yu. Sakhnovsky “Feather grass”

Vic. Kalinnikov "On the old mound"

"The Stars Are Fading"

S. Rachmaninov “Concerto for Choir”

S. Taneev “At the Grave”

"Prometheus"

"The ruin of the tower"

“There are two gloomy clouds on the mountains”

"Stars"

"The volleys fell silent"

G. Sviridov “Herd”

V. Salmanov “From Afar”

C. Gounod “Night”

M. Ravel “Three Birds”

F. Poulenc "Marie"

Cantata-oratorio (oratorio, cantata, suite, poem, requiem, mass, etc.). Examples:

G. Handel Oratorio: “Samson”,

"Messiah"

I. Haydn Oratorio “The Seasons”

W.A. Mozart “Requiem”

I.S. Bach Cantatas. Mass in B minor

L. Beethoven “Solemn Mass”

J. Brahms “German Requiem”

G. Mahler 3rd symphony with choir

G. Verdi "Requiem"

P. Tchaikovsky Cantata “Moscow”

"Liturgy of John. Chrysostom"

S. Rachmaninov Cantata “Spring”

"Three Russian Songs"

Poem "Bells"

"All Night Vigil"

S. Prokofiev Cantata “Alexander Nevsky”

D. Shostakovich 13th symphony (with bass choir)

Oratorio “Song of the Forests”

"Ten Choral Poems"

Poem "The Execution of Stepan Razin"

G. Sviridov “Pathetic Oratorio”

Poem “In Memory of S. Yesenin”

Cantata “Kursk Songs”

Cantata "Night Clouds"

V. Salmanov “Swan” (choral concert)

Oratorio-poem “The Twelve”

V. Gavrilin “Chimes” (choral performance)

B. Briten "War Requiem".,

K. Orff “Carmina Burana” (stage cantata)

A. Onneger “Joan of Arc”

F. Poulenc Cantata “The Human Face”

I. Stravinsky “Wedding”

"Symphony of Psalms"

"Sacred spring"

Opera-choral genre. Examples:

G. Verdi “Aida” (“Who is there with victory to glory”)

“Nebuchadnezzar (“You are beautiful, O our Motherland”)

J. Bizet “Carmen” (Finale of Act I)

M. Glinka “Ivan Susanin” (“My Motherland”, “Glory”))

"Ruslan and Lyudmila ("Lel the mysterious")

A. Borodin “Prince Igor” (“Glory to the Red Sun”)

M. Mussorgsky “Khovanshchina” (Meeting scene of Khovansky)

"Boris Godunov" (Scene near Kromy)

P. Tchaikovsky “Eugene Onegin” (Ball Scene)

"Mazepa" ("I will curl a wreath")

“The Queen of Spades” (Scene, in the Summer Garden)

N. Rimsky-Korsakov “Woman of Pskov” (Veche Scene)

“Snow Maiden” (Seeing off Maslenitsa)

"Sadko" ("Height, height under heaven")

"The Tsar's Bride" ("Love Potion")

D. Shostakovich. Katerina Izmailova" (Convict Choir)

Choral arrangement (arrangement of a folk song for choral and concert performance)

A) The simplest type of song arrangement for choir (verse-variation form preserving the melody and genre of the song). Examples:

“Shchedrik” - Ukrainian folk song arranged by M. Leontovich “Told me something” - Russian folk song arranged by A. Mikhailov “Dorozhenka” - Russian folk song arranged by A. Sveshnikov “Ah, Anna-Susanna” - German folk, song arranged by O. Kolovsky

“Steppe, and steppe all around” - Russian folk song arranged by I. Poltavtsev

B) Expanded type of processing - while the melody remains unchanged, the author's style is clearly expressed. Examples:

“How young, baby I am” - Russian folk song, arranged

D. Shostakovich “The Gypsy Ate Salted Cheese” - arrangement 3. Kodály

B) Free type of song processing - changing the genre, melody, etc. Examples:

“On the hill, on the mountain” - Russian folk song arranged by A. Kolovsky

“The bells were ringing” - Russian folk song arranged by G. Sviridov “Jokes” - Russian folk song V arranged by A. Nikolsky “Pretty-young” - Russian folk song arranged by A. Loginov

Choral arrangement

  • arrangement from one choir to another (from mixed to female or male)

A. Lyadov Lullaby - arrangement by M. Klimov

  • arrangement of a solo song for choir with soloist

A. Gurilev The swallow flutters - arrangement by I. Poltavtsev

  • arrangement of an instrumental work for choir

R. Schumann Dreams - arrangement for choir by M. Klimov

M. Oginsky Polonaise - arrangement for choir by V. Sokolov

S. Rachmaninov Italian polka - arrangement for choir by M. Klimov

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Grinchenko Inna Viktorovna

CHORAL MINIATURE IN RUSSIAN MUSICAL CULTURE: HISTORY AND THEORY

Specialty 17.00.02 - musical art

Rostov-on-Don - 2015

The work was carried out at the Department of Music Theory and Composition of the Rostov State Conservatory. C.B. Rachmaninov

Scientific adviser:

Official opponents:

Lead organization:

Doctor of Cultural Studies, Candidate of Art History, Professor

Krylova Alexandra Vladimirovna

Malatsay Lyudmila Viktorovna,

Oryol State Institute of Arts and Culture, Professor of the Department of Choral Conducting

Nemkova Olga Vyacheslavovna,

Doctor of Art History, Associate Professor,

Tambov State Musical Pedagogical Institute, Professor of the Department of Choral Conducting

Ufa State Academy of Arts named after Zagir Ismagilov, Department of Music Theory

The defense will take place on June 24, 2015 at 16.00 at a meeting of the dissertation council D 210.016.01 at the Rostov State Conservatory named after S.B. Rachmaninov at:

344002, Rostov-on-Don, Budennovsky Ave., 23.

The dissertation can be found in the library of the Rostov State Conservatory. C.B. Rachmaninov and on the website http://\vww.rostcons.ru//discouncil.html

Scientific secretary of the dissertation council

Dabaeva Irina Prokopyevna

GENERAL DESCRIPTION OF WORK

The relevance of research. Choral art is a fundamental part of Russian culture. The abundance of bright groups is direct evidence of the vitality of domestic choral traditions, confirmed today by many festivals and competitions of choral music at various levels. Such “bubbling content” of choral performance is a natural source of unabated composer interest in this genre area.

In the variety of genres of choral music, choral miniature occupies a special place. Its development and demand for practice are due to a number of reasons. One of them is reliance on the root basis of the entire array of choral genres - the primary genre of Russian folk song, representing the basic small form from which other, more complex genre types developed. The other is in the specificity of miniature forms, with a characteristic focus on one emotional state, deeply felt and meaningful, with a finely detailed nuance of feelings and moods conveyed through an exquisite sound-colored choral palette. The third is in the peculiarities of perception of the modern listener, endowed, as a result of the influence of television, with a clip consciousness, gravitating towards fragmentation, the short length of sound “frames”, and the beauty of the “surface”.

However, the demand for the genre in performing practice has not yet been supported by scientific justification of its nature. It can be stated that in modern Russian musicological literature there are no works devoted to the history and theory of this phenomenon. It should also be noted that in modern art the desire to miniaturize form with depth of content is one of the characteristic general trends, predetermined by a new round of understanding of the philosophical problem of the relationship between the macro and micro worlds.

In the genre of choral miniatures, this problem is particularly acute due to the fact that the embodiment of the macroworld within this genre is the choral principle, but, thanks to the special laws of compression of form and meaning, it turns out to be collapsed into the format of the microworld. Obviously, this complex process requires its own study, since it reflects

general patterns of modern culture. The above determines the relevance of the research topic.

The object of research is Russian choral music of the 20th century. The subject of the research is the formation and development of the choral miniature genre in Russian musical culture.

The purpose of the study is to substantiate the genre nature of choral miniatures, allowing for the identification of small-volume choral works with the principles and aesthetics of miniatures. The goal identified the following tasks:

To identify the genesis of miniatures in the traditions of Russian culture;

Describe the main parameters that allow you to attribute

Consider the choral miniature as an artistic object of art;

Explore the path of evolution of the genre in the context of Russian musical culture of the 20th century;

To analyze the features of the individual interpretation of the choral miniature genre in the works of Russian composers of the second half of the 20th century.

The purpose and objectives of the work determined its methodological basis. It is built comprehensively on the basis of theoretical scientific developments and works of scientists - musicologists and literary critics, as well as an analysis of the work of composers of the 19th - 20th centuries. The dissertation uses methods of cultural-historical, structural-functional, axiological, and comparative analysis.

Research materials. Due to the breadth of the problem field of the stated topic, the scope of the dissertation research is limited to consideration of the process of development of choral miniatures in Russian secular art of the 19th - 20th centuries. The empirical material was a cappella choirs, as they most clearly embody the idea of ​​miniaturization in choral music. The work uses works by M. Glinka, A. Dargomyzhsky, P. Tchaikovsky, N. Rimsky-Korsakov, M. Mussorgsky, S. Taneyev, A. Arensky, P. Chesnokov, A. Kastalsky,

B. Shebalina, G. Sviridova, V. Salmanova, E. Denisova, A. Schnittke, R. Shchedrina,

S. Gubaidullina, S. Slonimsky, V. Gavrilin, Y. Falik, R. Ledenev, V. Krasnoskulov, V. Kikty, V. Khodosh.

The degree of scientific development of the topic. Problems of the history and theory of the choral miniature genre have not been sufficiently developed in musicology. In co-

There are no works in temporary scientific research that would allow the identification of a small choral work with the principles and aesthetics of a miniature. However, art criticism, literary studies, cultural studies and musicology works of various problematic orientations contain a number of ideas and provisions that are conceptually significant for this dissertation.

In this work, a philosophical generalization of the phenomenon, positioning the choral miniature as a semblance of a macrosystem and allowing us to determine its place in culture, its role in human experience, was formed on the basis of the works of M. Bakhtin, H. Gadamer, M. Druskin, T. Zhavoronkova, M. Kagan, S. Konenko, G. Kolomiets, A. Korshunova, Y. Keldysh, I. Loseva, A. Nozdrina, V. Sukhantseva, P. Florensky.

Identification of the stages of assimilation of the experience of miniaturization by various types of Russian art required turning to the works of musical, historical and cultural content by B. Asafiev, E. Berdennikova, A. Belonenko, G. Grigorieva, K. Dmitrevskaya, S. Lazutin, L. Nikitina, E. Orlova , Y. Paisov, V. Petrov-Stromsky, N. Sokolov. The sociological aspect was included in the problem area, which led to the involvement of the ideas of A. Sokhor and E. Dukov.

The presentation of the genre as a multi-component gene structure, with interdependent and interdependent levels, was based on the multi-aspect approach to the category of genre that had emerged in musicology, which entailed turning to the research of M. Aranovsky, S. Averintsev, Yu. Tynyanov, A. Korobova, E. Nazaikinsky, O Sokolov, A. Sokhor, S. Skrebkov, V. Zuckerman.

The analysis of musical works, with the help of which the features of the vocal-choral form were identified, was carried out based on the works of K. Dmitrevskaya, I. Dabaeva, A. Krylova, I. Lavrentieva, E. Ruchevskaya, L. Shaimukhametova. Valuable clarifications were gleaned from the work

A. Khakimova about the theory of the a cappella choir genre. The means of expressiveness of choral texture were considered on the basis of the works of V. Krasnoshchekov, P. Levando, O. Kolovsky, P. Chesnokov, collections of scientific articles edited

B. Protopopova, V. Fraenova.

When studying samples of choral music from the perspective of the musical and poetic nature of the genre and their close interaction with other types

arts, the provisions and conclusions contained in the works of S. Averintsev, V. Vasina-Grossman, V. Vanslov, M. Gasparov, K. Zenkin, S. Lazutin, Yu. Lotman, E. Ruchevskaya, Yu. Tynyanov, B. Eikhenbaum were used , S. Eisenstein.

The scientific novelty of the study lies in the fact that for the first time it:

A definition of the genre of choral miniatures has been formulated, allowing for genre attribution of small-form choral works;

A study of the nature of the genre of choral miniatures was carried out through the prism of philosophical knowledge about the macro and microworlds, revealing endless semantic possibilities for the embodiment of artistic ideas in a compressed content field, up to the reflection in the phenomenon of miniatures of significant attributes of the image of culture;

Small forms of various types of Russian art are examined in order to identify their generic characteristics and features, which constitute the genotype of the genre in a melted and indirect form.

The role of various musical genres - the historical predecessors of choral miniatures - in the formation of its genre features is revealed;

The historically changing configuration of genre features of choral miniatures in the socio-cultural context of the 20th century has been studied.

The following provisions are submitted for defense:

The genre of choral miniature is a small-scale musical work a cappella, based on a multi-level syncresis of words and music (background, lexical, syntactic, compositional, semantic), providing a time-concentrated, deep disclosure of the lyrical type of imagery, reaching symbolizing intensity.

The miniature is a kind of analogy of the macrosystem in which it is inscribed - art, culture, nature. Being a microcosm in relation to the actually existing macrocosm of man, it is capable of reflecting the complex properties of living matter as a result of the concentration of multifaceted meanings in a small literary text. As a result of the process of miniaturization, a compression of the sign system occurs, where the sign acquires the meaning of an image-symbol. Thanks to semantic coding, the possibility of operating with entire “semantic complexes”, their comparison and generalization is created.

The genetic roots of choral miniatures are inextricably linked with examples of small forms of various arts, their poetics and aesthetics. Within the framework of miniature genres and forms of Russian art, significant features for choral miniature were formed, such as the refinement of a small form, a high level of artistry stemming from the filigree, sophisticated craftsmanship of the manufacturer, the specificity of the content - emotional and ideological concentration, the depth of understanding of the world and human feelings, functional purpose .

The process of crystallization of the genre took place on the basis of active inter-genre interaction, as well as increasing mutual influence of the musical and poetic arts. As a result of these processes, at the beginning of the 20th century, a genre was formed in which the musical element reaches the limit of artistic expressiveness in synthesis with the poetic form.

The author's approaches to creating a new type of imagery in choral miniatures of the second half of the 20th century are characterized by the expansion of genre boundaries due to transformations of the musical language and the saturation of the genre model with extra-musical factors. The use of different types of techniques by composers in synthesis with old traditions, giving genre elements a new semantic coloring has formed the modern facets of the choral miniature genre.

The theoretical significance of the study is determined by the fact that a number of developed provisions significantly complement the accumulated knowledge about the nature of the genre under study. The work provided a detailed argumentation and analytical evidence base for questions that underpin the possibility of further scientific search for the features of this genre type. Among them are the analysis of the phenomenon of miniaturization in art from the point of view of philosophical knowledge, the identification of the poetics of miniatures in various types of Russian art, the justification of the genre characteristics of choral miniatures in its difference from small forms, the special role in the process of crystallization of the genre of individual interpretation of the genre model by Russian composers of the second half of the 20th century and others.

The practical significance of the study is due to the fact that the presented materials will significantly expand the possibilities of applying scientific knowledge in the field of practice, since they can be an integral part of courses in the history of music and analysis of forms of music schools and universities, in music programs for secondary schools, and will also be useful in work choirmasters.

Structure of the dissertation. The dissertation consists of an introduction, three chapters, a conclusion, and a list of references from 242 sources.

The Introduction contains a rationale for the relevance of the topic, reveals the main problems of the research and the degree of its scientific development, defines goals and objectives, material, methodological foundations, argues the degree of scientific novelty, and provides information about testing the results of the work.

In the first chapter, “Choral miniature in historical and cultural context,” the essence of the phenomenon of miniaturization in art is outlined through the prism of philosophical knowledge. The understanding of this essence, so important for choral miniature, is revealed in the light of Russian philosophical thought. The role of the miniature as an artifact of modern culture is considered, the features of miniature poetics are identified in small forms of various types of art, in which the experience of miniatures was assimilated by musicians, representing a kind of silent period in the development of the genre. Scientific approaches to considering this phenomenon are outlined.

1.1. Miniaturization in musical and choral art: philosophical

grounds

Starting from Asafiev’s understanding of the essence of music as a reflection of the “picture of the world”, as “a worldview that gives birth to a microcosm - a system that synthesizes the maximum into the minimum”e1, in this section of the work, based on the analysis of philosophical approaches to the problem of macro and microworlds, the nature of the choral miniature is explored. It is emphasized that the miniature, being a product of art and a cultural artifact, is similar to space, culture, man, that is, it is a reflected microcosm in relation to the really existing macrocosm of man, that the object of the miniature (as an object of art built into culture) is the microcosm with all its elements ,

1 Asafiev, B.V. (Igor Glebov) The value of music [Text]: collection of articles / B.V. Asafiev (Igor Glebov); edited by Igor Glebov; Petrograd State Academic Philharmonic. -Petrograd: De música, 1923. - P. 31.

processes, patterns, which is similar to the macrocosm in its principles of organization, the boundlessness of phenomena.

It has been revealed that in miniature the reflection of the complex, fleeting properties of living matter is a “collapse” of the process of formation of the meaning of an artistic text, that is, its miniaturization. Its essence is the compactness of the sign system, where the sign acquires the meaning of an image-symbol. Thanks to semantic coding, the possibility of operating with entire “semantic complexes”, their comparison and generalization is created.

It is also noted that the depth of philosophical knowledge contained in the miniature of Russian composers is derived from the idea of ​​conciliarity, and the dominance of the ideas of macro and micro worlds in Russian philosophy determined significant ideas, under the sign of which choral art evolved from large choral canvases to miniature, from the collective choral principle - to the subjective and individual. It is concluded that the art of miniatures, born in past centuries, strengthens its significance in modern culture, concentrates in itself all the experience and diversity of artistic traditions of Russian art, enriching them and proving the viability of its historical heritage. And the substantive depth and capacity, communicative potential, multiplicity of musical and extra-musical connections include the miniature in the evolutionary process.

1.2. Choral miniature in the context of Russian art traditions

The emergence of the phenomenon of Russian choral miniature was due to romantic trends that came from Western art. Lyrical self-expression, which determined a new sense of self in art, influenced the national culture at the turn of the 18th - 19th centuries. The idea of ​​the deep unity of all types of art allows us to consider the prehistory of choral miniatures in order to determine the principles of concentration of meaning in their small forms. This was facilitated by the expressiveness and skill of book graphics - the decoration of capital letters, the creation of small drawings and illustrations that give special meaning and emotional content to the text, the capacity and aphorism of the word, honed in small forms of literary creativity, the depth of psychological expressiveness of Russian intonations.

Chinese plangent song, the desire for spatiality and filigree decoration in miniature forms of fine art.

The methods and principles with the help of which small works of art were created, which gained their usefulness in a person’s life, closely intertwined with his inner aspirations, everyday life, full of meanings that were significant to him, formed the experience of embodying the deep concentration of an artistic image.

1.3. Research approaches to the study of choral miniatures

Text approach. Since a specific feature of the choral miniature is the highly informative content, formed in the synthesis of words and music, there is a need to consider it using a textual approach, which involves addressing the text from the point of view of its communicative nature. The textual approach to the study of choral miniature as a multi-element structure of a synthetic text makes it possible to analyze the figurative and expressive language means used in the text, which are identified and correlated with the content they signify, that is, they have semantic meanings.

The interaction of semantic complexes of musical and poetic texts creates a special artistic and semantic content of the image, as a result of which the process of enriching the range of expressive means of the language of one art occurs at the expense of the other. Structural-semantic complexes formed as a result of the interaction of poetic and musical texts sometimes reach the intensity of symbols in their synthesis. They are the basis of a structural-semiotic system in which “the organization and meaning of the elements of musical matter depend on at least two features: the era in which Man lives, and Man’s individual vision-perception-understanding of the world.” Consideration of the artistic text of a choral miniature should be based on the correlation of the principles of the formation of structural-semantic relations of artistic signs of the poetic source and the musical text. This is important because

1 Kornelkzh, T. A. Musicology as an open system: experience in posing a problem: based on the material of domestic music science [Text]: dis. ...cand. art history: 17.00.02. / T.A. Kornelyuk; Novosibirsk State conservatory - Novosibirsk, 2007. -P.147

The distinctive feature of the miniature is the concentration of content and its close connection with the outside world, that is, the significance of extra-textual connections that carry the semantic meanings of both texts increases multidimensionally for it.

The structural-systemic approach provides consideration of ways to construct an artistic whole by combining its elements based on the concept of structural poetics. She points out that in a poem, a language organized in a special way acquires the properties of an artistic system, as a result of which the weight of the word as a significant segment in the text increases. Consequently, the implementation of an artistic idea occurs through the mechanism of linking these elements endowed with semantic meaning. According to this, the structural and artistic process of the formation of musical content is based on a high degree of expressiveness of the elements of musical language and their complex combination. The constructions of the “coupling” of thematic elements form the basis of the projective space of the artistic text of the choral miniature. In choral polyphony, this is a dramaturgically determined change in the textural functions of the voices, their interaction. Within the framework of the indicated approach, attention is focused on the artistic-structural relationships and interaction of musical and literary texts, which is so necessary when studying the nature of the genre of choral miniatures.

The second chapter, “Choral miniature in the work of composers of the Russian school: historical and cultural background, formation and development of zhapra,” highlights the historical and artistic processes that influenced the formation of invariant features of the genre. These are features of the development of Russian culture, trends that determined the interaction of poetry and music, the influence of analogue genres on the formation of the characteristic features of choral miniature. Based on theoretical concepts of domestic musicology, the concept of genre is formulated.

2.1. Musical and poetic mutual influence and its role in the formation of the genre

choral miniatures

The mutual influence of poetry and music in historical retrospect was aimed at searching for concentration and deepening of artistic meaning. IN

The basis of this process was the desire of both arts to achieve the truthfulness of reflection in art of the natural intonation of human speech, which contains the meaningful and emotional depth of the word. Innovations of this kind in poetry, which made themselves known in the 18th century, led to the formation of a syllabic-tonic system of versification, which in turn served as an impetus for the creation of laws of musical form. Further close contact between the two arts in the field of small vocal and choral genres contributed not only to the development of free poetic forms in poetry, but also to the formation in music of immanent ways of increasing meaningful information content. Among them are the principles of end-to-end development, dividing the text into small fragments with detailed nuances, and increasing the complexity of the rhythmic, modal, and harmonic aspects of the musical text. In line with these processes, the influence of Russian cultural traditions was traced, which determined the formation of the characteristic features of the genre of choral miniatures, namely, melodicity, melodiousness, integration of the properties of poetic language into melodicity, and associative connections of both arts.

2.2. Choral miniature as a theoretical definition

The theoretical setting that sets the vector of research should be considered the definition of genre, which belongs to A. Korobova. It emphasizes that the genre “is distinguished by a historically flexible coordination of common features of content, construction and pragmatics, based on a dominant feature”1. The essence of this position is indirectly confirmed in the interpretation of the genre by S. Averintsev, who notes that “the category of genre is mobile”, “subject to fundamental changes, historically determined”2. S. Aranovsky also points to “the amazing ability of the genre to persist, adapting to changing conditions”3.

"Korobova, A.G. Modern theory of musical genres and its methodological aspects [Text] / A.G. Korobova // Musicology. - 2008. - No. 4. - P. 5.

2 Averintsev, S. S. Historical mobility of the genre category: experience of periodization [Text]:

collection of articles / S.S. Averintsev // Historical poetics. Results and prospects of the study. -M.: Nauka, 1986.-S. 104.

3 Aranovsky, M. G. The structure of the musical genre and the current situation in music [Text]: collection of articles / M. G. Aranovsky // Musical contemporary. Vol. 6 - M.: Soviet Composer, 1987.- P. 5.

In order to identify the genre paradigm in different types of historical existence of the genre, the etymology of its name was investigated. The key word in this concept is “miniature”. The quintessence of the terminological essence of “miniature” in temporary arts is the criterion of scale (small form) and the effect of compacting the information flow (structural model). This artistic compression is based on the “collapse” in time of the plot organization layer and the transfer of its functions to the intonation layer.

Because of this, according to E.V. Nazaikinsky, a double assessment of syntactic time turns out to be significant for the miniature: both the actual syntactic-intonation time and the compositional one. The dual nature of time in the miniature genre leads to the effect of special tension, richness, and concentration of the musical form and the development processes occurring within its framework. The complexity and versatility of this phenomenon gave rise to turning to the ideas of outstanding Russian musicologists, whose theoretical concepts are associated with approaches to determining the nature of the genre, the poetics of small forms, and the problem of the interaction of words and music. Refracting the results of these theoretical developments to the specifics of the choral miniature, in this section of the work several definitions were artificially constructed, which led to an understanding of how and on what fundamental principles the compression of meaning is carried out in the choral miniature.

A comparison of the given characteristics made it possible to place important semantic accents. It is so obvious that the criterion of scale is common to all. Another, fairly stable parameter for characterizing a choral miniature is how the idea is embodied, on what fundamental principles the synthesis of arts is based. Also noted as significant for the essence of the genre are the specificity of the compositional whole (syntactic level) and its openness to stylistic modifications, susceptibility to the influence of non-choral musical genres. As a result of identifying the internal specific composition of the genre structure, in which the most mobile is the synthetic language, formed in the interaction of music and words and realizing itself in the artistic system of polyphony, a definition of the genre was formulated, which allows for the genre attribution of choral works of small forms, highlighting samples in their totality genre of choral miniature.

The genre of choral miniature is a small-scale musical work a cappella, based on a multi-level syncresis of words and music (phono-pitch, lexical, syntactic, compositional, semantic), providing a time-concentrated, deep disclosure of the lyrical type of imagery, reaching symbolizing intensity.

2.3. Crystallization of the features of the choral miniature genre in the works of Russian composers of the 19th century

Understanding the genre as a moving category, drawing evolutionary impulses from the depths of the adjacent genre system, made it possible to expand the range of interacting genres under consideration and identify the features introduced into the choral miniature from church music, romance, opera, and piano miniature. Among them are attention to the poetic word, its deep meaning, inextricably linked “with the quality of Russian music: bringing the personal outward”1, expanding the range of emotional states, developing original ways of concretizing the image with program content, the desire to connect intimacy and scale in an artistic image.

The features of the genre paradigm, in our opinion, acquired their clear contours in the works of S. Taneyev. The combination of several melodies in the simultaneous sound, each of which is equal and artistically significant, allowed the artist, with the help of their total intonational and psychological effect, to create enormous dynamic tension in the choral fabric. To deeply reflect the poetic text, the composer was the first to use the multidirectional expressive potential of vocal music. On the one hand, discreteness in the presentation of the word, syntactic fragmentation associated with speech genesis, on the other hand, dynamic tension due to intonational coherence and dissonant aggravation of polyphonic polyphony. A legitimate illustration of these theoretical conclusions are choral miniatures based on the poems of Ya. Polonsky, which embody the basic principles of the genre. The composer's individual style most clearly reflected his work aimed at condensing and deepening the meaning in the musical component of the small choral form.

1 Zenkin, K.V. Piano miniature and the ways of musical romanticism [Text]: monograph / K.V. Zenkin. -M.: Music 1997. - P. 314.

Important components of this process are the processing of the poetic text by S. Taneyev in order to identify its dramatic potential, making it possible to build an adequate compositional form, as well as the use of techniques that ensure the collapse of artistic musical “information”, manifested at the level of content and semantics (generalization through genre) . choirs of S. Taneyev, which provides a “starting point” for the development of the genre in Russian choral art.

The third chapter, “Choral miniature in Russian musical culture of the 20th century,” is devoted to evolutionary processes in which the features of stylistically new types of choral miniature were determined by the cultural and historical context and individual composer approaches in the embodiment of the genre.

3.1. Genre situation of the 20th century: Sociocultural context of existence

This section of the work examines the situation of mutual influence of the cultural context on the development of small choral forms at the beginning of the century. It is noted that the specifics of the choral genre are largely predetermined by socio-demographic factors. This made it possible to state that, due to changes in the social function of art in the first half of the century, choral miniatures are leaving the practice of public music-making. The new aesthetics of socialist art, cultivating collective forms of creativity, brought mass song onto the historical stage. It became one of the emblematic cultural phenomena of the first half of the 20th century.

Her choral arrangements were widely represented in the works of M. Antsev, D. Vasiliev-Buglai, M. Krasev, K. Korchmarev, G. Lobachev, A. Pashchenko, A. Egorov and others. A large layer in the newly formed choral repertoire of the post-revolutionary decades was formed by choral arrangements of Russian folk songs. Arrangements by A. Glazunov became popular,

A. Kastalsky, P. Chesnokov, A. Davidenko and others, as well as conductors A. Arkhangelsky, M. Klimov and others. The composers continued their work in line with the old traditions of the choir school. Within the framework of this direction, works by A. Kastalsky, V. Kalinnikov, A. Arensky, P. Chesnokov and others were created. The above allows us to conclude that in the historical time of the revolutionary and post-revolutionary events of the 20th century, secular choral miniature of the Taneyev type gave way to mass song and choral treatment, which can be seen as a crisis of the genre.

The restructuring of public consciousness in the 60s transformed the cultural life of the country. The ability of art to openly return to the sphere of the spiritual and personal changes the social purpose of choral music, which leads to the revival of choral miniatures as a genre, the demand for which was determined by the fact that in its genetic structure countless artistic forms of reflection of lyrical content could be created. The Renaissance of choral miniatures contributed to the restoration of the genre's content stored in memory. The miniature “...itself acted as one of the blocks of this memory and ensured the creation of a most favored nation regime to preserve the development of the natural characteristic features of the genre”1. The semantics of the genre determined the renewal of the communicative functions of its existence, which was associated with the conditions and means of execution. We are talking about the revival of the chamber branch of choral art.

The change in the political climate, the restoration of the traditions of Russian spirituality, and contacts with world culture contributed to the development of a figurative and meaningful panorama, the renewal of means of expression, and the emergence of new synthetic genres. Choral music becomes a reflection of not just life, but the life of modern man at a specific historical stage. A “foreign genre” factor and patterns drawn from other types of art are introduced into the musical and choral context. Composer's styles are characterized by the growth of integrative qualities, which made it possible to increase the level of information content of the choral miniature, reflecting the desire to concentrate thoughts, and, consequently, to concentrate means. Methods of concentrating information contributed to the improvement of artistic forms

1 Nazaykinsky, E.V. Style and genre in music [Text]: textbook for university students / E.V. Nazaykinsky. -M.: Humanitarian Publishing Center VLADOS, 2003. - P. 105.

reflection of reality, which ultimately determined the emergence of a musical component that represents the artistic independence and usefulness of a poetic image, which has the possibility of large-scale generalization. The process of updating the musical language has emerged at all levels of interaction between the musical and poetic text. Complex relationships have emerged, characterized by increasing attention to the articulation of the verbal text along with its intonation. Sound creation, relying on multiple articulatory techniques, was aimed at conveying verbal meaning: clear, precise presentation of the word, expanding the methods of pronunciation and intonation, combining relief intonation-speech microstructures into a single semantic whole. In the context of the development of polystylistic tendencies, the frequent involvement of foreign genre elements in the internal structure of choral miniatures, with the spread of individualized reading of the poetic text, the process of expanding the semantic field of the work is developing. Activation of interaction between various structural and semantic plans in the figurative concept was decisive in the accumulation of informativeness of artistic content, capacity, and artistic versatility of the choral miniature. Thus, evolutionary processes were aimed at searching for techniques that have the ability to convey increasingly subtle nuances in the disclosure of emotional and psychological states, the broad and deep construction of the artistic context.

3.2. The evolution of choral miniatures in the second half of the 20th century

Within the framework of this paragraph, the development of the choral miniature genre is considered from the perspective of a new understanding of the principles of genre formation, which were developed under the influence of modern creative practice in the second half of the century. The formation of the meaningful volume of a choral miniature occurs at the epicenter of inter-genre interaction, which includes different spheres of art. Among them are instrumental music, theater and cinema. From this perspective, a striking example of the influence of symphonic and film drama on choral miniature is the work of G. Sviridov. The analysis of the composer’s works carried out in the work indicates that the concept of constructing an image is based on the use of editing technology

frames. Thanks to this, the formation of an artistic image is presented as “a chain of stringed images of individual aspects”1. This methodology for constructing an artistic image is also applicable to other forms of art, in particular poetry, which made it possible to consider the compositional structure of a miniature using frame montage, where the “frame” of the poetic text corresponds to the musical “frame” that summarizes the meaning of the poetic stanza.

A comparative analysis of the choral miniatures of S. Taneyev and S. Sviridov made it possible to identify the latter’s innovations at all levels of the relationship between poetic and musical texts: background pitch, lexical, semantic, compositional. In the process of analysis, S. Sviridov’s desire to convey the nuances of speech intonation, identify the dramatic potential of textural plans, stratify the choral texture, its instrumentalization, introduce elements of the sonata allegro form, use symphonic development techniques, etc. is emphasized. Despite the fact that the choral miniature retains structural and semantic orientation of genre typification in the works of both composers, Sviridov observes its stylistic renewal. Modernization processes reflected new composer's thinking in the field of musical language, a new algorithm for building an imaginative concept, namely, the embodiment of an artistic image through the dramaturgy of frame editing. The refraction of the method of constructing an artistic whole in cinematographic art, which uses in its arsenal visual ways of understanding the world, has revealed new forms of interaction between poetry and music.

3.3. Main vectors of development of the genre

Section 3.3.1. “Choral miniature cultivating classical reference points” is dedicated to works of the classical style. Among the composers who wrote choral miniatures in the spirit of classical traditions in the second half of the 20th century were G. Sviridov (“Winter Morning” based on lyrics by A. Pushkin from the choral cycle “Pushkin’s Wreath”), E. Denisov (“Autumn” based on lyrics. A. Feta from the choral cycle “The Coming of Spring”), R. Ledenev (“Beloved Land” to lyrics by S. Yesenin from the choral

1 Eisenstein, S.N. Montage 1938 [Text] / S.N. Eisenstein // The Art of Cinema. - 1941. - No. 1.-S. 39.

th cycle “Wreath to Sviridov”), V. Salmanov (“The fields are compressed” to the words of S. Yesenin), V. Krasnoskulov (“The Tsarskoye Selo statue” to the words of A. Pushkin) and others.

The features of this type of miniatures are considered in the work using the example of a comparative analysis of the works of P. Tchaikovsky and V. Shebalin, written on the text of M. Lermontov’s poem “The Cliff”. The parameters of the analytical review were chosen in such a way that, by comparing the expressive capabilities used by composers, to highlight the features of a new artistic approach to the creation of a musical and poetic image by V. Shebalin, to emphasize what was special that ensured the artistic independence and usefulness of the musical component of his composition. Analytical procedures made it possible to identify differences in the interpretation of the image at all levels of interaction between words and music. The following illustrates the new composer's thinking. At the syntactic level, P. Tchaikovsky has a clear correspondence between the phonetic structure of a word and its intonation delivery, which leads to a complete coincidence of melodic and verbal microstructures. In V. Shebalin this connection is more indirect. The composer strives for a general presentation of the word, a large stroke. At the content-semantic level, we emphasize the wider palette of expressive means of V. Shebalin. If P. Tchaikovsky uses only the harmonic, dynamic, tempo-rhythmic characteristics of the image to describe the image, then V. Shebalin applies the principle of genre generalization and demonstrates mastery of the expressive and visual potential of the texture. The vertical-horizontal flow of the sound flow and the layering of textured layers reflected the complementary correspondence between words and music. With the help of the richness of timbrophonic colors that arises due to the variety of texture solutions, V. Shebalin achieves a subtle psychological nuance of the image. At the compositional level of interaction between texts, we note that in P. Tchaikovsky’s work there is a strophic form, while in V. Shebalin the form is “contracted” to a musical tripartite. Note that V. Shebalin created a secondary poetic form. We will also point out the use of choral groups, expansion of the register range of singers, articulatory features of the delivery of words, the use of expressive qualities of sonorous singing, which is not observed in P. Tchaikovsky’s choral miniature.

Accordingly, the path from P. Tchaikovsky to V. Shebalin is the path of concretizing the word through the means of music, finding an increasingly subtle parity

strong relationship and interaction with the musical component, built on unity and equivalence. The foregoing allows us to conclude that the musical component in V. Shebalin’s “Cliff” is the richest in terms of the implementation of expressive resources. It confirms the thesis that the evolutionary processes of the second half of the 20th century increasingly established in choral miniature its leading genre feature - the collapse of meaning in the process of interaction of musical and poetic texts.

Section 3.3.2. “Choral miniature, focused on Russian national traditions” is dedicated to the stylistic modification of the genre associated with the rethinking and recreation of the features of Russian folk art through modern compositional techniques. Within the framework of this section, an attempt has been made, using the material of V. Gavrilin’s choral miniature “Nonsense” from the symphony-action “Chimes,” to consider the structural processes that determined the development of figurative content. The focus of special attention is on musical and linguistic means that form semantic complexes in which the artistic text information of the choral miniature is encoded. In the process of analysis, an interpretation of the semantic meanings of the elements of the musical text is given, the mechanism of their coupling is described, in which, with the help of their contrasting opposition, each of the meanings is clarified and the meaning is revealed as a result of their comparison.

In section 3.3.3. “Choral miniature in the context of new stylistic trends of the 60s” indicates that this most interesting period of the 20th century is characterized by a significant radicalization of musical language. Individual stylistic concepts of Russian composers are formed in the process of a permanent search for new means of expression. The main directions in this area were related to: expanding the range of expressive means in presenting the word, finding ways to instrumentalize choral texture, and using the resources of timbrophonics. These processes are also reflected in the works of composers working in the genre of choral miniatures. In line with new trends, Y. Falik created their works (“Habanera”, “Intermezzo”, “Romance” from the concert for choir “Poems of Igor Severyanin”), R. Ledenev (“Prayer” from the choral cycle “Wreath to Sviridov”), S. Gubaidullina (cycle “Dedication to Marina Tsvetaeva”), E. Denisov (“Autumn” to lyrics by V. Khlebnikov), A. Schnittke (“Three Spiritual Choirs”), V. Kikta

(“Winter Lullaby”), S. Slonimsky (“Evening Music”), etc. Interesting in this regard is the artistic experience of implementing the genre by R. Shchedrin.

In the artist’s creative works in the genre of choral miniatures, a new poetics of the genre emerged. It was rooted mainly in a historically determined stylistic renewal of structural and semantic unity, a more subtle relationship between music and the poetic word, which was based on “mixed technique”,1 a synthesis of means of expression characteristic of modern art. The purpose of the analysis is to identify methods and techniques of compositional technique that are deeply connected with other types of art and aimed at creating artistic structures, on a small scale of which the semantic potential of their elements reaches the intensity of a symbol. The subject of the analysis was choral miniatures from the cycle “Four Choirs to the Poems of A. Tvardovsky”.

An analysis of R. Shchedrin’s choral miniatures from the cycle “Four Choirs to Poems by A. Tvardovsky” allowed us to draw the following conclusions. The compositional thinking of artists of the second half of the 20th century formed new features of the genre model, in which there is a radical renewal of the ways of forming artistic content. The strengthening of the processes of mutual influence of the verbal and musical components - the expansion of topics, appeal to different musical styles, innovative compositional techniques - led to the updating of musical semantics. The consequence of the intensified interaction between various structural and semantic plans in the figurative concept was the accumulation of informative content, capacity, and artistic versatility of the choral miniature.

The conclusion of the dissertation contains conclusions that are significant for the characteristics of the choral miniature. A miniature is a microcosm in relation to the really existing macrocosm of a person; it is capable of reflecting the complex properties of living matter in a large-scale compressed artistic text. It embodies a high level of artistic skill and depth of content, which reflects the subtle facets of the world and human feelings.

The process of genre crystallization occurred on the basis of active inter-genre interaction, which made it possible to identify

1 Grigorieva, G.V. Russian choral music of the 1990-80s [Text] / G.V. Grigorieva. - M.: Music, 1991. - P.7.

means and elements of musical language that contribute to the formation of structures that maximize semantic potential.

Comparison of the ontology of the name of the genre (choral miniature) with the genetic code determined their identity and made it possible to develop approaches to the attribution of the genre. Based on the developments of the most prominent musicologists in the field of poetics of small forms, genre theory and the relationship between poetic and musical texts, a definition of the concept of “choral miniature” was formulated and its theoretical justification was given. Analysis of the evolution of this genre type revealed the “starting point” of the historical life of the genre in Russian culture - the work of S. Taneev, the “crisis” of the genre in the first half of the 20th century, due to socio-historical circumstances, and its revival in the second half of the century. The study of the existence of the genre showed that, under the influence of polystylistic trends, multidirectional “vectors” emerged that determined its “image” in the second half of the 20th century. Evolutionary processes during this period were associated with coordination between musical factors and external determinants; their analysis revealed the ability of choral miniatures to assimilate a variety of stylistic trends and find a resource for expanding and deepening content in the diversity of musical languages.

At the conclusion of the dissertation, it is noted that, despite the level of scientific understanding of the topic achieved in the work, it remains open to a broad time perspective, since the change of generations of composers passing on their knowledge and creative developments to subsequent generations makes obvious the fact of the inevitable continuation of the life of the studied genre in its new interpretations .

Articles in peer-reviewed scientific journals recommended by the Higher Attestation Commission:

1. Grinchenko, I.V. The origins of choral miniatures of the era of romanticism in the context of the traditions of Russian art [Text]: scientific journal / I.V. Grinchenko // World of science, culture of education. - Gorno-Altaisk, 2012. - No. 3 (34). - P. 226-228.-0.4 p.l.

2. Grinchenko, I.V. Choral miniature: a structural approach to the analysis of poetic and musical texts [Text]: scientific, theoretical and applied journal: in 2 parts. Part II. / I.V. Grinchenko // Historical, philosophical, political

and legal sciences, cultural studies and art history. Questions of theory and practice. - Tambov: Certificate, 2013. - No. 4 (30). - P. 47 -51.-0.4 p.l.

3. Grinchenko, I.V. The interaction of poetic and musical texts in the genre of choral miniature (using the example of the choir “Spring” from V. Khodosh’s cycle “The Seasons”) [Text]: specialized scientific journal / I.V. Grinchenko // Problems of musical science. Ufa: publishing house of the Ufa State Academy of Arts, 2013. - No. 2 (13). - P. 273 - 275. - 0.4 p.l.

4. Grinchenko, I.V. Choral miniature in Russian music of the second half of the 20th century [Electronic resource]: scientific journal / I.V. Grinchenko // Fundamental Research. - 2014. - No. 9 - 6. - P. 1364 - 1369. - Access mode: http://vak.ed.gov.ru. -0.4 p.l.

Other publications on the topic of dissertation research:

5. Grinchenko, I.V. The genre of choral miniature in Russian music at the turn of the 19th - 20th centuries (on the example of Twelve a cappella choirs op. 27 by S. Taneev) [Text]: scientific journal / I.V. Grinchenko // South Russian musical almanac: Rostov State Conservatory (Academy) named after S.B. Rachmaninov."-Rostov n/D., 2013.-No. 1 (12).-P. 18-25.-1p.l.

6. Grinchenko, I.V. Updating the meaning of a musical and poetic text as a technology for working with a children’s choir [Text]: conference materials / I.V. Grinchenko // Modern choral performance: traditions, experience, prospects: International scientific and practical conference [g. Rostov n/d., April 28 - 29, 2014]. - Rostov n/d.: publishing house of the Rostov State Conservatory (Academy) named after S.B. Rachmaninov, 2014. - P. 94 -101.-0.5 pp.

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