European Musical Classicism in the Art of Franck Sinatra (to the Question of Typology of Arrangement)

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Natalia V. Gubkina

Abstract

This publication is devoted to the insufficiently explored aspect of the creative work of the prominent American singer Frank Sinatra, namely, his interpretations of European classical works. Sinatra‘s „classical“ repertoire, representing different national traditions, is examined in the context of the fashion to interpreting the classics in the American jazz of the 1920-50s, which was a welcoming tendency in the integration process of jazz into the world music culture. The author reveals the types of interpretation of the classical works, which were made by the Sinatra’s arrangers (from the simple quoting to the complex compilation forms). Sinatra inherited the genre- and intonation semantic of a German Lied, Russian romance, English ballad and of various models of folk music as important components of the „old“ European culture and assimilated various national cultural patterns of the human communication into his creative work.

Keywords: Frank Sinatra, vocal Jazz History, European Classic, arrangement, technology of interpretation, Mechanisms of intercultural transfer

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Gubkina, N. V. (2010). European Musical Classicism in the Art of Franck Sinatra (to the Question of Typology of Arrangement). Music Scholarship / Problemy Muzykal’noj Nauki, (2), 39–42. Retrieved from https://musicscholar.ru/index.php/PMN/article/view/548
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Musical Art of the 20th Century
Author Biography

Natalia V. Gubkina, Herzen State Pedagogical University of Russia

Assistant Professor, Ph.D. (Arts)