Transcriptions of Symphonic Music in the Repertoires of Folk Musical Instrument Orchestras: A Historical Overview

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Mikhail S. Kopyryulin

Abstract

The designated issue is examined in the article on a retrospective plane – from its inception in the late 19th and early 20th century to the present day. Transcriptions of classical compositions, including orchestral music, incorporated in the concert and pedagogical activities of Russian folk instrument orchestra, is characterized by the author as a most significant factor which makes it possible to resist the attempts of interpreting performance on folk instruments exclusively as a folklore-ethnographic phenomenon. Works by outstanding composers of the classical academic school transcribed for folk orchestra not only present an essential source for complementing the contemporary repertoire of concert ensembles, but also serve as important didactic material conducive for the formation of professional skills of orchestral performance in the practice of work of student orchestras.
On the basis of preserved reviews, documentary testimonials, as well as facts and events pinpointed by researchers the author of the article discloses tendencies which are characteristic for transcriptions in various periods of formation and development of folk orchestral performance. The qualified characterizations of the carried out “adaptations” of orchestral classics associated  with any concrete period of the activities in the indicated sphere of performance practice are established by the author with the consideration of objective conditions of the formation of the instrumental ensemble makeup within Russian folk orchestras and their social and historical context. Transcriptions of orchestral music are acknowledged to be an important constituent part of the asserted here full-fledged academic status of Russian folk instrument orchestras functioning within the frameworks of the professional community.


Keywords: transcription, repertoire, orchestra of Russian folk instruments, academic
performance on folk instruments.

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Kopyryulin М. С. (2020). Transcriptions of Symphonic Music in the Repertoires of Folk Musical Instrument Orchestras: A Historical Overview. Music Scholarship / Problemy Muzykal’noj Nauki, 38(1), 158–170. Retrieved from https://musicscholar.ru/index.php/PMN/article/view/1159
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Musical Genre and Style
Author Biography

Mikhail S. Kopyryulin, Rostov State S. V. Rachmaninoff Conservatory, Rostov-on-Don, Russia

Mikhail S. Kopyryulin, Head of the Educational-methodical Management, Faculty Member at the Department of Orchestral and Opera-Symphonic Conducting, Rostov State S. V. Rachmaninoff Conservatory