The Implementation of the Genre of the Lamentation into Russian Choral Music of the Second Half of the 20th and the 21st Centuries

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Natalia Yu. Zhossan

Abstract

The article is devoted to analyzing the peculiarities of implementing
the genre of the lamentation into Russian choral music
in the context of certain stylistic tendencies of the second half
of the 20th century. The author highlights two chief principles:
recreating of the folk genre as an integral structure with
preservation of the basic typological features: reinterpretation of
the genre through its separate components by means of synthesis
with other genres. The peculiarities of the approach toward folk
music material are disclosed in the current of the neo-folkloristic
trend and in the context of sacred music. The neo-folkloristic
musical compositions from the 1960s and 1970s demonstrate the
aspiration towards complication and psychologization of the folk
music genre source, which often brings it towards reevaluation
and deformation. The opposite tendency – of preserving the
original semantics of the folk music pre-image – predominates in
sacred music, since in the sacred space the folk musical original
source manifests itself as a sign of the national element.

Keywords: lamentation, neo-folkloristic trend, sacred music,
synthesis of genres, polyphony of strata of folk music genres

Article Details

How to Cite
Zhossan, N. Y. (2015). The Implementation of the Genre of the Lamentation into Russian Choral Music of the Second Half of the 20th and the 21st Centuries. Music Scholarship / Problemy Muzykal’noj Nauki, (1), 50–54. https://doi.org/10.17674/1997-0854.2015.1.18.050-054
Section
Musical Genre and Style
Author Biography

Natalia Yu. Zhossan, Ufa State Academy of Arts named after Zagir Ismagilov

Candidate of Arts,
Associate Professor at the Music Theory Department

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