Music Journal of Northern Europe № 1(33), 2023

 

Contents

 

Materials of the International Scientific Conference “Professional music of Karelia: history, heritage, interpretation” (Petrozavodsk State Glazunov Conservatoire, 21th October 2022)

 

Tatyana S. Ekimenko
UNION OF COMPOSERS OF KARELIA: THE BEGINNING OF THE WAY | 1-10

 

Vera I. Nilova
T. V. KRASNOPOLSKAYA – HISTORIAN OF RUSSIAN MUSIC | 11-21

 

Marina A. Doktorova
MY MUSICAL MEMOIR (A REVIEW OF THE PERSONAL ARCHIVAL COLLECTION OF THE COMPOSER E. N. PATLAENKO) | 22-33

 

Irina M. Nurieva
ROBERT LACH – UNKNOWN “FAMOUS” SCIENTIST | 34-48

 

Ekaterina G. Okuneva
INTEGRAL SERIAL TECHNIQUE IN SONATA FOR TWO PIANOS BY MICHEL FANO: BETWEEN TRADITION AND INNOVATION | 49-70

 

Elena I. Pererva, Evgeniya V. Safonova
OPERA BY E. PODGAITS “ALICE THROUGH THE LOOKING-GLASS”: ARTISTIC CONCEPT AND IMAGINATION | 71-93

 

Tatiana N. Gaponenko, Alina V. Kuznetsova, Liudmila V. Sbitnevа
ACTUAL ISSUES OF PERFORMING KEYBOARD MUSIC BY W. A. MOZART | 94-110

 

Marina M. Podguzova
BETWEEN FREEDOM AND AUTHOR'S TEXT: A. G. ZABEL AS AN EDITOR OF HARP PARTS AND CADENCES | 111-127

 

Evgeniy V. Terekhov
INTONATION IN A STRING QUARTET | 128-141

 

 

Tatyana S. Ekimenko UNION OF COMPOSERS OF KARELIA: THE BEGINNING OF THE WAY | 1-10

 

Abstract: The article is devoted to the activity of the Union of Composers of the KFSSR in the early years of the existence of the organization. The author dwells in detail on the report of the chairman of the Presidium of the SSK of the KFSSR L. Vishkarev on the work of the Union for 1943. For the first time, the report provides complete information about all spheres of activity of the composer organization during the evacuation in Belomorsk. The research was carried out on the basis of examining the documents of the National Archive of the Republic of Karelia.

 

Keywords: Union of Soviet Composers of the KFSSR, Leonid Vishkarev, National Archive of the Republic of Karelia

 

 

Vera I. Nilova T. V. KRASNOPOLSKAYA – HISTORIAN OF RUSSIAN MUSIC | 11-21

 

Abstract: The article is written in the genre of memories of personal communication between V. I. Nilova and T. V. Krasnopolskaya. T. V. Krasnopolskaya (1937–2015) is widely known as a prominent Russian ethnomusicologist and Finno-Ugric scholar. She is less well known as a historian of Russian music, which she taught at the Petrozavodsk Conservatory for more than 40 years. Сombination of the talent of historian and ethnomusicologist in one teacher-researcher led Krasnopolskaya to a scientific discovery – the discovery of the folklore source of the melody of “Finn's Ballads” from M. I. Glinka’s opera “Ruslan and Lyudmila”.

 

Keywords: T. V. Krasnopolskaya, history of Russian music, Glinka, “Finn's Ballads”, scientific school, musical ear, experimental method, runic model

 

 

Marina A. Doktorova MY MUSICAL MEMOIR (A REVIEW OF THE PERSONAL ARCHIVAL COLLECTION OF THE COMPOSER E. N. PATLAENKO) | 22-33

 

Abstract: The article describes materials from the personal collection of composer E. N. Patlaenko stored in the National Archives of the Republic of Karelia. Eduard Patlaenko is the Honoured Artist of the Karelian Autonomous Soviet Socialist Republic and the Russian Soviet Federative Socialistic Republic, member of the Union of Composers, professor of the Petrozavodsk State Glazunov Conservatoire.

The National Archives of the Republic of Karelia carefully preserves the entire creative heritage of the composer. The archive contains personal documents, musical scores, programmes, concert posters, articles, diary entries, teaching materials and teaching aids, business and personal correspondence, student photo album. The Eduard Patlaenko archive is the collection of primary source materials on the life and work of the composer.

 

Keywords: Edward Patlaenko, composer, the National Archives of the Republic of Karelia, collection, the Union of Composers, the Petrozavodsk State Glazunov Conservatoire

 

 

Irina M. Nurieva ROBERT LACH – UNKNOWN “FAMOUS” SCIENTIST | 34-48

 

Abstract: Robert Lach, the author of several publications on folk music of Finno-Ugric, Turkic and Caucasian peoples, recorded his material from Russian prisoners of war interned during World War I on the territory of Austria-Hungary. Having the opportunity for extensive comparative studies, the scientist recreated a holistic for that time picture of the functioning of the musical cultures of the peoples of the Volga region and their stylistic features.

Despite the fact that his publications immediately became widely known and recognized abroad, having become for many years practically the only source of knowledge about the musical cultures of Russia, Robert Lach entered the history of Russian ethnomusicology quite late due to the inaccessibility of his publications. The purpose of this article is to study the scientific heritage of the Austrian musicologist and scientist Robert Lach in the field of Udmurt traditional musical culture and to identify his role in the formation of Udmurt ethnomusicology.

 

Keywords: Robert Lach, Udmurt ethnomusicology, evolutionist theory, principles of recording and notation, litany

 

 

Ekaterina G. Okuneva INTEGRAL SERIAL TECHNIQUE IN SONATA FOR TWO PIANOS BY MICHEL FANO: BETWEEN TRADITION AND INNOVATION | 49-70

 

Abstract: The article discusses the features of the serial technique of the Sonata for Two Pianos by Michel Fano, created in 1952. The author undertakes a comparison of the multidimensional serial system of composition with the compositional method of Boulez’s “Structures 1a”, reveals their similarities and differences, emphasizes the elements of the traditional and innovative in the music language of the Sonata. At the end of the article, a conclusion is made about the refraction in the composition of the multidirectional tendencies of serialism, which are manifested, on the one hand, in a certain degree of automatism of the compositional process, and, on the other hand, based on the traditional categories of musical thinking.

 

Keywords: Michel Fano, Pierre Boulez, Oliver Messiaen, Sonata for two pianos, integral serialism, pitch row, duration row, macro row

 

 

Elena I. Pererva, Evgeniya V. Safonova OPERA BY E. PODGAITS “ALICE THROUGH THE LOOKING-GLASS”: ARTISTIC CONCEPT AND IMAGINATION | 71-93

 

Abstract: The article is devoted to the children's opera of the famous Moscow composer Efrem I. Podgaits – “Alice through the Looking-glass” (libretto by V. Orel based on the fairy tale by L. Carroll), created in 1980 and staged at the St. Petersburg Musical Theater “Through the Looking-glass” in 1993. The article deals with the issues of genre and style specifics of the work, the basic principles of the musical dramaturgy of the opera, and the peculiarities of reading the literary source.

 

Keywords: E. I. Podgaits, L. Carroll, “Alice Through the Looking-Glass”, children's opera, interpretation, musical dramaturgy

 

 

Tatiana N. Gaponenko, Alina V. Kuznetsova, Liudmila V. Sbitnevа ACTUAL ISSUES OF PERFORMING KEYBOARD MUSIC BY W. A. MOZART | 94-110

 

Abstract: The purpose of the study is to consider topical issues of performing keyboard music by W. A. Mozart. These include: articulation, tempo, dynamics, melismatics, pedaling. The scientific novelty of the work lies in the generalization and structuring by the authors of the main performing techniques and tasks, which makes it possible to more clearly see the features of the composer's style and more clearly convey his creative intention. The authors come to the following results: knowledge of such patterns of the composer's writing will help to form a sense of stylistic features of Mozart's music.

 

Keywords: keyboard music by W. A. Mozart, articulatory leagues, texture, metrorhythm, pedaling, trill, gruppetto, dynamic gradations

 

 

Marina M. Podguzova BETWEEN FREEDOM AND AUTHOR'S TEXT: A. G. ZABEL AS AN EDITOR OF HARP PARTS AND CADENCES | 111-127

 

Abstract: The name of Albert Zabel is known on all continents without exception. As a virtuoso harpist, composer and arranger he left a significant legacy in every area of his work.

The proposed article is devoted to the editorial activity of the harpist, which has become one of his main professional areas. Being an artist of the Mariinsky Theatre, he performed a significant number of adaptations of harp parts and cadences.

The publication for the first time presents a look at the demand for this kind of activity, analyzes the editorial versions of the cadences from P. I. Tchaikovsky's ballets “Swan Lake” and “The Nutcracker”, offers an assessment of the significance of A. G. Zabel's activity in this area in the context of the impact on the world harp art.

 

Keywords: A. G. Tsabel, harp, cadence, “Swan Lake”, “The Nutcracker”, harpist, harp art

 

 

Evgeniy V. Terekhov INTONATION IN A STRING QUARTET | 128-141

 

Abstract: The article discusses the features and typical problems of intonation in a string quartet. Brief recommendations and instructions aimed at solving problems that arise in the work on intonation are given.

 

Keywords: intonation, string quartet, string instruments