The Subject of War in the Bashkir Artistic Culture and its Realization in Rafail Kasimov’s Sixth Symphony

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Evgenia R. Skurko

Abstract

The article examines the subject of war and peace аs one of аs
set of constant philosophical subjects of world artistic culture:
Life and Death, Good and Evil, etc. An overview is given of
the specimens of Bashkir traditional music (folk songs and
instrumental tunes) and academic culture (works of literature,
art, music) as a relection of universal and purely regional
peculiarities of national mentality in the interpretation of the
subject of war. Emphasis is made on the special popularity of
subjects connected with the image of Salavat Yulayev, one of the
main mythological igures of Bashkir culture. The peculiarities
of the interpretation of the “eternal subject” in Rafail Kasimov’s
Sixth Symphony “Peace and War of Salavat, son of Yulay”
is accentuated (in regards to the ideal-artistic conception, the
principles of dramaturgy, composition and intonational lexis).

Keywords: the subject of war in art, the composers of
Bashkortostan, Rafail Kasimov’s Sixth Symphony, the image of
Salavat Yulayev, the technique of parallel dramaturgy

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How to Cite
Skurko, E. R. (2015). The Subject of War in the Bashkir Artistic Culture and its Realization in Rafail Kasimov’s Sixth Symphony. Music Scholarship / Problemy Muzykal’noj Nauki, (2), 84–88. https://doi.org/10.17674/1997-0854.2015.2.19.084-088
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Artistic World of Musical Piece
Author Biography

Evgenia R. Skurko, Ufa State Academy of Arts named after Zagir Ismagilov

Doctor of Arts, Professor of the Music Theory Department

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