Music Journal of Northern Europe № 1(9), 2017

Contents

Tamara V. Krasnopolskaya
Formation and development of the ethnomusicological school in Karelia | 1-18

Ruslan N. Vasilyev
The choral concert № 1 “The White Birch” by Vasiliy Kulikov: interpretation of the text, compositional technique, form and dramaturgy | 19-35

Vladimir I. Stachinsky
Formation of artistic figurativeness of the Third symphony by Alexander Beloborodov on the basis of the timbre and texture dramaturgy | 36-76

Igor V. Petryakov
The phenomenon of musical memory in the performance practice of a musician-instrumentalist | 77-87

Abstract: The article traces the history of Karelian ethnomusicology from the end of the 19th century. Its initial stage is connected with the expedition of the Song Commission of the Imperial Russian Geographical society along the Northern provinces and with the first publications (F.M. Istomin, G.O. Dyutsh). At this time, the foundations of a scientific approach to the accumulation and publication of epic texts with samples of tunes are laid. In the second half of the 19th century, the foundations of local studies and folklore studies are laid (P.N. Rybnikov, A.F. Hilferding, E.V. Barsov, V.D. Lysanov). The second half of the XX century is characterized by the formation of the scientific approach to the study of the singing folklore of the ethnic groups of Karelia as a historically established polyethnic system of traditional singing culture (L.M. Kershner, E.V. Gippius, V.P. Evseev). At the beginning of the 21st century, the Karelian school of ethnomusicology reached the level of large-scale coverage of the polyethnic culture of the lands of the Northwest of Russia and of the problems of musical historical regional studies.

Keywords: ethnomusicological school in Karelia, musical Finno-Ugric studies, musical folklore, folklore expeditions, local studies, structural-typological analysis, method of analytical graphics, musical-historical regional studies

Abstract: The article is devoted to the Choral Concerto No. 1 “The White Birch” (1984) by Vasiliy Kulikov (b. 1963). Special attention is paid to the poetic original, the dramaturgy of the cycle, the form, musical syntax, polymodal and mixed techniques. In an effort to put his native Komi-Permian culture in a wider European context, the composer turns to the high academic genre of the choral concerto, the poems of the Komi-Permian poet Stepan Karavayev (1908–1974), the adaptation of a Komi-Permian folk song. In this cycle the author combines the relevant for that time civic and patriotic themes and the development of the traditions of a new folklore wave.

Keywords: Vasiliy Kulikov, Komi-Permian culture, choral concert, interpretation, dramaturgy of the cycle, form, musical syntax, polymodal technique

Abstract: The article analyzes the interaction of the timbre and texture dramaturgy in the creation of the image-associative space in the Third Symphony by Alexander Beloborodov. The timbre palette of the symphony orchestra largely determines the development of the musical material and enables the formation of images directly associated with the program of the work. From the conductor-practitioner’s point of view, the analysis of the confrontation of common forms of sound in this work is the standing point in the search for figuratively expressive means of influencing the audience.

Keywords: Alexander Beloborodov, image-associative space, artistic image, timbre and texture dramaturgy, general intonation, timbre palette of the score, instrumentation

Abstract: The article considers the phenomenon of musical memory as the most important ability of a professional musician-performer. With consideration for the numerous studies of psychologists and theorists of performing arts, the author reveals the role of musical memory in the formation of the performer's stage condition, which is determined by the individual psychological features of the individual. The article also offers a number of recommendations based on psychological observations of experienced performers and teachers which aid the successful mastering of the musical material on a woodwind instrument.

Keywords: musical memory, psychology, associative thinking, arbitrary and involuntary memory, performance practice, stage condition, stage fright, temperament