Spiritual concert. The genre of choral concert in Russian sacred music at the turn of the 19th century

In June 2009, the choir of the Holy Trinity Cathedral in Saratov, under the direction of regent S. Khakhalina, recorded a third music disc entitled “Hear, O God, my prayer,” which is currently being published. This time the music disc includes chants by composers A. Tretyakov, D. Bortnyansky, A. Nikolsky, G. Ryutov, V. Stepanov. The chants include famous choral concerts.

Most lovers of church music are familiar with the expression “concert”. This is a chant that sounds at the Divine Liturgy before Communion. What is “concert performance” for sacred music and is it possible to perform concert works within the walls of churches?

music disc “Hear, O God, my prayer” A church concert is a non-statutory phenomenon during the service (that is, it may not be performed), since there is no mention of it in any service book. At the place of the concert there should be a sacramental verse, i.e. any verse or line from the Psalter, taken according to the meaning of the holiday. The sacramental verse is sung after the completion of the Eucharistic canon, during the communion of the clergy in the altar. At this time, parishioners are also preparing to begin Communion and should maintain maximum attention and reverent attitude.

Previously, the sacrament was chanted using znamenny chants, which took quite a long amount of time, depending on how many priests were taking Communion. Nowadays, the sacrament is most often performed in recitative, i.e. pronounced quickly, on one chord. And after the sacramental verse, a spiritual concert is performed. Sometimes it can act as a participle verse, i.e. sounds like the sacramental text (in this case the sacramental verse is not performed).

The term “spiritual concert” is of European origin; it appeared in Russian church practice at the end of the 17th century, with the arrival of partes, polyphonic singing from Europe. Until this time, the musical arrangement of divine services was based on znamenny unison singing. These were melodies flowing steadily, filling the temple with a homogeneous sound, performed by low male voices. Znamenny chants created a special mood in the souls of the praying people, and it seemed that the time boundaries of the course of the service began to blur, time stopped and the heart of a believer touched eternity. Music contributed to the repentance and prayer of believers.

The partes style, having penetrated the music of the Church, pushed Znamenny singing into the background and began to be used everywhere. Works written in this style were distinguished by increased sentimentality and sensitivity (and sometimes even sensuality); the musical expression was sometimes completely inconsistent with the meaning of church hymns. The first spiritual concerts (early 18th century) stood out noticeably from the general musical sound of Orthodox worship. These were monumental chants written in multi-part musical form. They were full of external contrasts, i.e. were built according to the principle of “quiet-loud”, “fast-slow”, “major-minor”, ​​“soloist-choir”. This competitiveness came from the church hymns that sounded under the echoing arches of European cathedrals.

Gradually, understanding not only of Znamenny singing, but also the meaning of worship in general was lost. Not the Liturgy, not the most important moments of the all-night vigil, but spiritual concerts were incredibly popular in all corners of Russia. Sometimes they even served as a kind of “aesthetic bait” to attract lovers of church singing to churches: many (peasants, merchants, and the governor himself) came to church only “for the concert”!

Classical composers of church music of the late 18th century. – M. Berezovsky, A. Wedel, S. Degtyarev – were often strongly influenced by European standards. Moreover, the influence was exerted not only by church, but also by secular music of Western composers.

During these same years, concerts began to be performed during non-liturgical times, i.e. went beyond the walls of the temples. For example, in honor of the victories of Russian weapons, ceremonial concert chants were performed in the squares, accompanied by the ringing of bells, cannon fire and fireworks. Or at rich weddings, in anticipation of the newlyweds, the church choir sang concert pieces corresponding to the joyful event.

The choral concert reached its peak in the works of composers of the Moscow Synodal School at the turn of the 19th and 20th centuries. The works of A. Arkhangelsky, A. Grechaninov, A. Kastalsky, P. Chesnokov expressed a desire for the traditions of Russian spiritual and musical creativity and the use of znamenny melodies, taken as the basis for development. Authors begin to turn to ancient chants that have passed into history and use individual elements of ancient chants in the melody of their chants. External contrast gave way to onomatopoeic moments, the multi-part form gave way to end-to-end development. The playing time of concerts has also been shortened. The impact of the texts became deeper and enhanced by expressive and talented concert music.

The music disc “Hear, O God...” presents concert chants different styles and directions that have become part of the church singing tradition of our people. The disc is intended to introduce listeners to the best examples of concerts, as well as to encourage singing groups to choose truly deep and spiritual works in their work.

Vera Popechiteleva

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Spiritual music- musical works related to texts of a religious nature, intended for performance during church services or in everyday life. Sacred music in the narrow sense means church music of Christians; in a broad sense, sacred music is not limited to accompanying worship and is not limited to Christianity. The texts of sacred music can be either canonical (for example, the Catholic Mass) or free, written on the basis or under the influence of sacred books (for Christians - the Bible). Johann Sebastian Bach is one of the most famous composers who wrote sacred music

In what follows we will talk about sacred music in a broad sense. For sacred music, understood as a synonym for liturgical music (for Christians, church music), see the relevant articles.

  • 1 Genres of sacred music
  • 2 Christian sacred music
    • 2.1 Genres of Christian sacred music
    • 2.2 Most famous works
    • 2.3 Orthodox sacred music
      • 2.3.1 All-night vigil
      • 2.3.2 Russian spiritual concert
    • 2.4 Spirituals
  • 3 Jewish sacred music
  • 4 Islamic sacred music
  • 5 Notes
  • 6 Links

Genres of sacred music

  • Paraliturgical music (lauda, ​​conduct, noel, carol, sacred verse, etc.)
  • Liturgical drama
  • Organ music
  • Music for other musical instruments
  • Music for orchestra and soloists
  • Music for orchestra, soloists and organ,
  • Music for choir, orchestra, soloists and organ
  • Choral (a cappella)
  • Choir with instrumental accompaniment
  • Solo (a cappella)
  • Solo with instrumental accompaniment
  • Prayerful and meditative music

Christian sacred music

Genres of Christian Sacred Music

The most common genres of Christian sacred music, Catholic and Protestant, are borrowed from church music; these are chorale, psalm, hymn (including Te Deum, Ave Maria), mass (including funeral - Requiem), sequence and passions (passions).

Heinrich Schutz

Each of the listed genres has its own history, but what is common to all is that they were born (or formalized) in the church and the right to compose works of a spiritual nature - not only texts, but also their musical arrangement - initially belonged exclusively to church ministers (for example , the authorship of most of the chants of the Roman liturgy was attributed by medieval tradition to Pope Gregory I). As a result of selection, processing and unification, canons were formed. There were also free forms, in particular the sequence, which became widespread during the Renaissance; some sequences were later canonized - for example, Dies Irae, composed by the Franciscan monk Tommaso da Celano and which became the main part of the Catholic requiem, or belonging to another Franciscan, Jacopone da Todi, Stabat Mater.

Over time, the right to musicalize canonical texts was also granted to secular composers. After the Reformation, spiritual compositions on non-canonical texts - chorales, hymns (including those composed by Martin Luther), and later the Passion - became widespread.

The religious oratorio that appeared in the 17th century also dates back historically to the Passion; being a freer form, initially not associated with worship, the oratorio could be based both on the events of Holy Week (for example, “The Seven Words of Christ on the Cross” by Heinrich Schütz and “The Seven Words of the Savior on the Cross” by Joseph Haydn) and on other chapters of the Gospel ( “A Christmas Story” (Weihnachtshistorie) by Schutz, “Messiah” by Handel, “Christmas Oratorio” by J.S. Bach, “The Childhood of Christ” by Hector Berlioz), as well as on subjects from the Old Testament, such as Handel’s oratorios “Saul”, “Israel” in Egypt", "Samson" and "Judas Maccabee".

Since the Renaissance, secular culture has had a significant influence on traditional church forms: the development of symphonic genres, on the one hand, and Italian opera, on the other, transformed both the passions and masses (especially funeral masses) and other, not so large forms, which, in in turn, evolved towards symphonization, concert performance and “operacy”. The performance of sacred works gradually moved into concert practice, and already in the 18th century, and somewhere earlier, many works were created specifically for performance in a concert hall or for court use, and were ordered for a specific occasion, such as coronation masses and requiems.

During the whole history christian church Along with church music, there was also so-called paraliturgical sacred music: works of a religious nature that did not correspond church canons. Songs that did not find application in worship (and in other cases were obviously not intended for it), both anonymous and original - Spanish-Portuguese cantigas, French noels and conducts, etc. - were widely used in everyday life; The sequences rejected by the Council of Trent (in the 16th century) influenced the development of folk spiritual songs - German Rufe and Leise, English carol, Italian lauda, ​​and those, in turn, influenced the development of sacred music of larger forms.

The most famous works

George Frideric Handel

Psalms- small-form musical works based on the text of the Psalter. The most ancient genre, since chants and prayers based on the verses of David were composed in Judea back in pre-Christian times. In the 16th century, psalms became widespread in professional non-cult music, especially “De profundis” (Latin: From the depths) - on the text of the 129th Psalm, which both initially among Jews and later among Catholics was often used as a funeral prayer; known, in particular, are “De profundis” by J. D. Zelenka and K. V. Gluck.

Apparently, the earliest processing that has reached us belongs to Josquin Despres. Psalms based on Latin and non-Latin texts, original or revised, were written by G. Schütz (“Psalms of David”), J. S. Bach, Handel; in the 19th century they were addressed by Schubert, Mendelssohn and Brahms. Composers of the 20th century also wrote psalms: Max Reger, Arnold Schoenberg, Krzysztof Penderecki, and in Russia - Sofia Gubaidulina and Oleg Yanchenko. One of the most famous works is the Symphony of Psalms by I. F. Stravinsky.

Masses- cyclic vocal or vocal-instrumental works, representing a collection of parts of the Catholic liturgy. The Protestant Church adopted short masses, consisting only of the first two parts of the Catholic Ordinary - Kyrie eleison and Gloria.

The first original mass based on the full text of the Ordinary was written in the middle of the 14th century by Guillaume de Machaut - the four-voice Messe de Notre Dame; the earliest of those that have come down to us belong to the composers of the Renaissance: Dufay, Okegem, Josquin Despres, Palestrina. In the 18th century and at the beginning of the 19th, it was rare that a composer did not write a mass; during the same period, there was a gradual separation of the mass as a genre from the divine service itself; The masses of Bach (primarily the B minor), Mozart, Schubert, and Beethoven's Solemn Mass became firmly established in concert practice. Throughout the 19th century, interest in the genre gradually faded, and in the 20th century composers rarely turned to the mass; can be called the Mass of I. F. Stravinsky on the canonical texts of the Catholic liturgy, in 5 parts (1948), the Mass of L. Bernstein. In the 20th century they continued to write cantatas for individual parts of the Ordinary of the Mass (for example, Gloria by F. Poulenc).

There are also organ masses in which all choral parts are replaced by organ compositions (see also Verset); works of this genre do not contain text of a religious nature, but in cases where the composer strives for the adequacy of the musical series with the implied verbal, organ masses are also classified as sacred music. This primarily applies to the “German Organ Mass” by J.S. Bach.

Franz Schubert

Requiems- originally Catholic funeral masses. The first work of this genre, written on a canonical Latin text, is considered to be Dufay's Requiem, which has not reached us; the first to survive, an a capella composition in polyphonic style, is by Johannes Ockeghem (15th century). However, already in the second half of the 18th century, requiems were often written not for the church, which later made it possible to compose requiems based on non-canonical texts or with partial use of the canonical text.

Currently, the most performed are the Requiems written in the canonical Latin text by W. A. ​​Mozart and D. Verdi. The concert repertoire has also firmly included the canonical requiems of L. Cherubini (in C minor), G. Berlioz, G. Fauré (on a truncated text) and the non-canonical German Requiem of J. Brahms and the War Requiem of B. Britten, in which traditional Latin text is combined with poetry English poet Wilfred Owen. Lately The Requiems of J. D. Zelenka and G. Biber are gaining recognition.

Passions- vocal and dramatic works dedicated to the events of Holy Week, initially based on gospel texts; however, from the beginning of the 18th century, works of this genre increasingly used texts written based on the Gospels by famous poets, including opera librettists.

The concept itself is associated primarily with the famous Passions according to Matthew and John by J. S. Bach. Recently, the Passion of Our Lord Jesus Christ by Antonio Salieri has often been heard on the concert stage. The earliest known Passions belong to Jacob Obrecht (presumably, since his authorship is disputed) and Orlando Lasso (XV-XVI centuries).

The Passion genre was very popular until the middle of the 18th century; already in the second half of the century, composers turned to it less and less, then it was forgotten for a long time, and only in the 20th century did interest in ancient music contribute to the revival of some genres, including Passions; Hugo Distler's "Choral Passion", based on all four Gospels, and K. Penderecki's "Luke Passion" (1966) became famous. For the 250th anniversary of the death of J. S. Bach, the “Passion” according to the four gospels - Luke, Mark, Matthew and John - was commissioned from four composers from different countries, Sofia Gubaidulina created the “Passion according to John”, O. Golikhov “Passion according to Mark."

Stabat Mater- Catholic chant (sequence) on the Latin text of Jacopone da Todi.

Among the earliest known are the works of Josquin Despres, Palestrina and Orlando Lasso; the most performed in our time are Gioachino Rossini's Stabat Mater, with excellent vocal parts and generally corresponding to the composer's theatrical style, and the more ascetic Stabat Mater by Giovanni Pergolesi. Also known are the works of Vivaldi, Haydn, Mozart, Schubert, Verdi (the cycle “Four Sacred Pieces”); A. N. Serov also has Stabat Mater. In the 20th century, Karol Szymanowski, Francis Poulenc, Zoltan Kodaly, Krzysztof Penderecki, and Arvo Pärt turned to Stabat Mater.

Krzysztof Penderecki

Te Deum- a Catholic hymn of thanksgiving with a text written in imitation of the psalms; originally performed as part of Christian worship. The first surviving example of a two-voice Te Deum dates back to the end of the 9th century.

Having separated from cult rituals, since the 18th century the anthem was more often heard during court celebrations, including coronation ones; Handel, Haydn, Salieri, and Mozart wrote their anthems for them. In the 19th century, Te Deum became a work of a concert nature, written for large performing ensembles - soloists and choir, accompanied by an orchestra or organ; such are the hymns of Berlioz, Liszt, Verdi, Bruckner and Dvorak.

In Russian Orthodox worship, the analogue of the Catholic Te Deum is the chant “We praise God to you” (its text is a Church Slavonic translation of the Latin text Te Deum); the works of A. L. Vedel, S. I. Davydov, N. A. Rimsky-Korsakov, A. A. Arkhangelsky are known.

Ave Maria- Catholic prayer addressed to the Virgin Mary. The most famous belongs to Franz Schubert (originally written on a non-canonical text); frequently performed ones also include Ave Maria by C. Gounod (composed as a melody to accompany the 1st Prelude of J. S. Bach's Well-Tempered Clavier and originally also written to a non-canonical text), Ave Maria attributed to Giulio Caccini (in fact, this is a popular composition - a hoax of the Leningrad lutenist Vladimir Vavilov). The earliest that has come down to us belongs to Josquin Despres; Also known are the hymns of Jacob Arkadelt, Palestrina, Cherubini, Gounod (created on the basis of the prelude by J. S. Bach), Mendelssohn, Verdi (the cycle “Four Sacred Pieces”), Liszt, Bruckner, Dvorak, Francesco Tosti... To the canonical text of the hymn Contemporary composers, including Alemdar Karamanov, Ennio Morricone, and Igor Luchenok, also willingly apply.

Orthodox sacred music

All-night vigil

Main article: All-night vigil

Since the 18th century, Russian composers have created texts All-night vigil works of a concert nature - “Vespers”, which could be performed outside of the service; “All-Night Vigils” by A. L. Vedel and S. A. Degtyarev are known. From the second half of the 19th century, “Vespers” often took the form of original choral works or rather free adaptations of ancient chants; such works were created, in particular, by A. A. Arkhangelsky, A. T. Grechaninov, P. G. Chesnokov. The best examples of the genre are considered to be “All-Night Vigils” by P.I. Tchaikovsky and Sergei Rachmaninov.

Russian spiritual concert

The spiritual concert that came to Russia from the West at the end of the 17th century, which was a “competition” of two or more choirs opposed to each other, initially developed as a genre of purely church music and corresponded to the traditions of Orthodox worship: unlike Western European ones, it did not involve instrumental accompaniment and was written in the form of partes polyphony, which had been established by that time in the church, in which the number of voices usually ranged from 3 to 12 (in some concerts it reached 48). But in the second half of the 18th century, the spiritual concert went beyond the church; Classic works in this genre were created by Maxim Berezovsky and Dmitry Bortnyansky:

Spirituals

Main article: Spirituals

Spirituals (from the English spiritual - spiritual) - spiritual songs of African Americans, can be considered as an offshoot of Christian spiritual music, since the source for them was spiritual hymns brought to America by Europeans, and their themes are traditionally based on biblical subjects. Adapted to African-American culture and the conditions of everyday life of African-Americans, these hymns were transformed into an original genre: spirituals combine the features of American Puritan hymns with the characteristic features of African performing traditions. Spirituals are characterized by a question-and-answer structure—a dialogue between the preacher and the parishioners. Formed as a genre at the end of the 19th century, spirituals were performed by a choir, without instrumental accompaniment, and represented a collective improvisation; but with the advent of such outstanding performers, like Marian Anderson and Paul Robeson, evolved into predominantly solo songs with instrumental accompaniment. Spirituals were used by George Gershwin in his famous opera Porgy and Bess. The most famous spiritual is “Go Down Moses.”

Jewish sacred music

Since ancient times, music has played an important role in the spiritual life of the Jews: the Old Testament mentions many musical instruments - percussion, wind and strings (according to experts, a total of 24). temple ritual music, according to the Bible, was introduced during the reign of David; At the temple there was a large choir and orchestra that participated in the service.

The main genre of temple music was psalm, is supposed to be a syncretic musical and poetic genre. The content of the psalm determined both the nature of its performance and the choice of instrumental accompaniment. By the beginning of the new era, three ways of performing psalms had developed: solo singing, responsorial, that is, solo accompanied by choral responses - “answers”, and simply choral, without a soloist. The choir, in turn, could be divided into two groups that conducted a dialogue with each other (antiphon).

After the destruction of the Temple (in 70 AD), the development of synagogue music began. was born in the synagogue new genre- prayer, which replaced sacrifices, and later psalmody- a chant, the text for which was taken not from the Psalter, but from other books of the Old Testament, for example, in the books of Job, Jeremiah and the Proverbs of Solomon. Unlike temple singing, synagogue singing for many centuries was exclusively vocal; The manner of performance was also simplified: a special type of liturgical recitative was developed - a combination of the actual reading with melodic recitation.

Already in the Middle Ages, another genre became widespread - drinking; like a psalm, it is a musical and poetic genre, most often a hymn of a religious nature. At the turn of the 8th and 9th centuries, professional singers - hazzans (cantors) appeared in synagogues. The Khazzans had the right to interpret ancient prayer melodies and create new ones; gradually the features of melodicism in the modern meaning of the word appeared in them.

If initially Jewish religious music influenced early Christian church singing, then later the music of the Jewish diaspora absorbed elements of local European cultures; under their influence, instrumental accompaniment of singing gradually returned to the life of Jewish communities. Thus, the violinist and composer Salomone dei Rossi, who lived in Mantua at the turn of the 16th and 17th centuries, created secular vocal and instrumental music in genres common in Italy at that time (madrigals, canzonettas, etc.), at the same time he is the author of synagogue compositions: 33 chorales (the book “Jewish Psalms and Songs”) and a collection of compositions “Ha-shirim Asher Li-Shlomo” (“Songs of Solomon”).

In the 19th century, representatives of the reformist trend in Judaism, supporters of introducing the Jewish people to the values ​​of European culture (including Jacob Hertz Behr, father of Giacomo Meyerbeer) installed organs in synagogues and created organ arrangements of liturgical melodies.

In Eastern Europe, where Jewish communities were forced to live more secludedly, in the 30s of the 18th century Hasidism arose in the Polish-Lithuanian Commonwealth, which subsequently spread to the territory of Austria-Hungary and Russian Empire. In Hasidic culture, dance, performed to instrumental accompaniment or singing, became an important part of the ritual. The music and dances of the Hasidim absorbed elements of Ukrainian, Polish, Romanian and Hungarian folklore, and at the same time represented a deeply national art.

In the second half of the 19th century, the influence of Western European musical culture reached Eastern Europe; in 1901, an organ was installed in the Odessa synagogue, Khazzan N. Blumenthal organized the first, but not the last choir school in Odessa, in which the bel canto style was cultivated, and in the liturgy he used the melodies of classical German music.

Islamic sacred music

Main article: Qawwali

Islamic spiritual music is primarily qawwali, a performance of Sufi poetry to the music. The art of qawwali originated in India in the 13th century as a result of the combination of Persian poetry with Indian music. Originally used solely for ritual purposes, qawwali is now traditionally performed on the tombs of Sufi saints in India and Pakistan; But for some time now, the performance of qawwali has also become a concert practice.

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  2. Manukyan I. E. Oratorio
  3. This relatively new term applies not only to non-church genres of sacred music, but also to original masses, requiems, all-night vigils, etc. that do not meet church requirements. (V.V. Ponomarev. Paraliturgical works and the problem of canonical admissibility in Orthodox church singing)
  4. Levik B.V. Mass // Musical Encyclopedia
  5. 1 2 Levik B.V. Requiem // Musical Encyclopedia
  6. 1 2 3 Druskin M.S. Passions // Musical encyclopedia
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  8. Here “Tebe” is the accusative form (in Russian: “Tebya”); in Church Slavonic writing it differs from the homonymous form of the dative case.
  9. On the history of the text of Schubert's Ave Maria, see, for example, the article by A. Maykapar.
  10. Buluchevsky Yu. Fomin V. Vigil // Brief musical dictionary. P. 78
  11. "Porgy and Bess"
  12. 1 2 3 4 5 Music // Electronic Jewish Encyclopedia
  13. About the Qawwali genre

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SACRED MUSIC - musical works of Christian content, not intended for performance during worship.

Sacred music is often contrasted with secular music, and in this understanding, an extremely wide range of phenomena is sometimes included in this area - from liturgical music of various religious traditions to original concert works written on religious themes or plots; in this case, the expressions “sacred music” and “religious music” are also used as synonyms. Nevertheless, in the European Christian tradition, sacred music should be separated from church music itself.

Western Europe

Non-liturgical sacred music is a phenomenon dating back to the Middle Ages; it can include, for example, chants of Christian content that existed in the oral tradition, reflecting the specifics of the “folk faith” (German folk songs about the Virgin Mary - Marienlieder), the repertoire of Latin-language songbooks (Cambridge Songs, The Scarlet Book (Libre Vermell)) , ceremonial motets, as well as multi-text motets of the late Middle Ages, in which secular poetry in vernacular languages ​​and spiritual Latin texts were simultaneously vocalized, the Spanish “Songs in praise of the Virgin Mary” (Cantigas), attributed to King Alfonso X the Wise of Castile and Leon (1252-1284 ), etc.

The first classical examples of Italian oratorio appeared by the middle of the 17th century in the works of G. Carissimi and his contemporaries. Among the many centers of sacred music in Rome during this period, the leading role was played by the Chapel of the Holy Crucifixion at the Church of St. Marcellus, whose rich musical traditions date back to the 2nd half of the 16th century. During the period of Lent, when secular music was banned, members of the upper classes supported the performance of sacred music in a secular style in this chapel by the best musicians of the city. Thus, already in this period, the music of oratorios was considered as a special, pious branch of secular musical life; in Rome and other cities of Italy in the 2nd half of the 17th century, oratorios were performed not only in the church space, but also in the palaces of patrons (Christina of Sweden, cardinals Pietro Ottoboni and Benedetto Pamphilj). Restrictions on the performance of secular music, periodically introduced by the Catholic Church, and the closure of opera houses each time led to the flourishing of the genre. Thus, one of the most fruitful periods in the history of the Roman oratorio came after, in 1704, Pope Clement XI, in gratitude to God for saving the city from a series of devastating earthquakes, introduced a complete ban on the public performance of any secular musical works within 5 years.

The oratorio genre in the Baroque era was perceived by many as an opera with a spiritual plot, but it should be taken into account that in other cases the performance of oratorios could include elements of theatricality. Like opera, oratorios were composed to a poetic libretto, which created conditions for a relatively free interpretation of the images and events of Holy Scripture or the Life of a saint. It was no coincidence that the librettists of the Italian oratorio preferred to turn to the books of the Old Testament: finding in them scenes of natural disasters, tragic situations (such as the Flood, Jonah in the belly of the whale, Abraham ready to sacrifice Isaac) - all that was valued by the public and in opera house - they sought to present the chosen plot as effectively as possible. While not always carefully handling the spiritual meaning of this or that biblical story, the authors of Italian oratorios never forgot that they were in the service of the Catholic Church; varied in content and musical style, their works always regularly performed the function of moral instruction: they called for complete trust in God, for a virtuous lifestyle, and often for an ascetic renunciation of worldly excesses and pleasures, despite the fact that the music and poetry of the oratorios were far from asceticism.

The oratorio, as the leading genre of baroque sacred music outside of Italy, was everywhere faced with the problem of the absence of such well-established and historically established institutions of spiritual concert as congregational meetings at oratorios. Therefore, the existence of sacred music in major cultural centers of Europe took different forms. Thus, at the Austrian imperial court of the Counter-Reformation era, on Good Friday, large musical performances “at the grave” (Italian Rappresentazione / Azione sacra al Sepolcro) with theatrical scenery, in costumes, and related oratorios were staged. Among the authors of the “Viennese Sepolcro” were the famous poets A. Zeno and P. Metastasio, composers I. J. Fuchs and A. Caldara.

In France, the oratorio genre remained almost unclaimed for a long time, which is partly explained by the emphasized independence of French musical theater in relation to Italian opera. The only author of French baroque oratorios, a student of G. Carissimi, M. A. Charpentier performed his numerous works both at home concerts and in church on holidays, apparently continuing the practice of his teacher. The authors of French operas extremely rarely turned to religious subjects. Almost the only exception was the “sacred tragedy” of M. P. de Montecler “Jephthah” (1732) to the libretto by S. Pellegrin - a significant work in the history of the French opera theater, which served as a kind of prologue to the debut of J. F. Rameau as an opera composer (1733) and influenced his work. At the same time, the use of Holy Scripture as the basis for the operatic plot caused sharp criticism and condemnation from the Archbishop of Paris, which, apparently, contributed to the abandonment of such practice in the future (the plan for the opera “Samson” by Rameau and Voltaire remained unrealized).

The tradition of special Lenten music (compensating for the suspension of theatrical life) was formed in Paris quite late, but gained great popularity and served as a model for many other cultural centers in France and Europe. In 1725, F. A. Philidor established “Spiritual Concerts” (French Concert spirituel), held in one of the halls of the Tuileries Palace. Initially, the “Sacred Concerts” consisted of the performance of church music in Latin and instrumental compositions by the artists of the Paris Opera, the Royal Chapel and the churches of the city. However, already from 1728, works of secular music in French were also performed at concerts. The commercial success of the enterprise was greatly facilitated by the participation of the best European virtuosos, singers and performers on various musical instruments, and the presence of works in the Italian style, which gradually acquired an increasing number of fans in France. Nevertheless, works of a religious nature occupied a stable position in the program of “Spiritual Concerts”: in the early years, M. R. Delalande’s “grand motets”, originally intended for the royal chapel, were especially popular with the public; from 2nd half of the XVIII century. “Spiritual concerts” became the venue for the performance of oratorios by French composers.

The history of sacred music in England in the Baroque era is usually associated with the work of G. F. Handel, the creator of a new type of oratorio in English, which became a classic example and a starting point for the further development of the genre. In the late period of his creativity (after 1737), Handel gradually abandoned the creation of operas, concentrating his efforts in the field of sacred music. The reasons for this turn are manifold: these are the events of the composer’s life, personal and spiritual, and the need to find a type of musical performance that could successfully withstand Handel’s numerous competitors on the stage of London musical theaters, and a response to the spiritual and ideological needs of English society. In the political context of the era (in 1745-1746 the last failed attempt of the Catholic Stuart dynasty to regain the English throne by force took place) it is characteristic that from Handel’s various works in this genre greatest success contemporaries received oratorios glorifying the struggle of the people chosen by God against the Gentiles (“Samson”, “Judas Maccabeus”, etc.) or depicting the triumph of a true monarch pleasing to God (“Saul”, in a certain sense “Messiah”).

Performed, as a rule, on the stage of musical theaters, Handel's oratorios were perceived by many contemporaries as spiritual operas. The attitude towards such in London was generally tolerant, although the appearance of biblical characters on stage offended the religious feelings of the Puritans, who considered the theater an unaffordable luxury and a place of obscene entertainment. In the case of the oratorio “Israel in Egypt,” written only on the texts of the Holy Scriptures, the controversy spilled over into the pages of periodicals; the arguments of the defenders of sacred music were very successfully summed up by an unknown author open letter: “This performance... could sanctify hell itself. The action that takes place here sanctifies the place, and not the place - the action” (London Daily Post. 1739. April. 18; quoted from: Smither. Vol. 2. P. 228).

The further tradition of spiritual concerts in England is largely connected with the name of Handel: on May 26, 27, 29, June 3 and 5, 1784, the 1st Handel Memorial Festival was held within the walls of Westminster Abbey and the Pantheon, dedicated to the 25th anniversary of the composer’s death. . The program included the most solemn and majestic of Handel’s works (the oratorio “Messiah”, the Dettingen “Te Deum”, the coronation anthem “Zadok the Priest”, the Funeral March from the oratorio “Saul”, etc.). Unique forces were involved in their performance (according to modern historians of Westminster Abbey, the choir consisted of 60 trebles, 48 ​​countertenors, 83 tenors and 84 basses; the orchestra numbered 249 people), which served as the beginning of the tradition of performing Handel’s music with a much larger composition than at the life of its creator. This and subsequent festivals became significant events in the musical life of London late XVI II century; a visit to the festival in 1791 made a huge impression on J. Haydn and served as an impetus for him to create oratorios based on Handel’s model.

In Protestant Germany at the turn of the 17th and 18th centuries, the northern Hanseatic cities, primarily Hamburg (the birthplace of the first German musical theater, which opened in 1678 with the opera Adam and Eve by I. Theile) and Lubeck, acted as centers of sacred music. Famous Lübeck " Musical evenings"(German Abendmusiken, Abendspiele) became a continuation and development of the practice of an organ concert during non-liturgical times, widespread in Northern European cities (this practice may have originated in the Netherlands during the time of J. P. Sweelinck). The tradition was started by F. Tunder, organist of the Church of the Virgin Mary since 1641; On Thursdays, he entertained with his playing the townspeople going to the stock exchange, attracting singers and violinists to play music. D. Buxtehude, who replaced him in 1668, turned the “Musical Evenings” into a serious concert enterprise, supported by donations from wealthy citizens. In 1669, additional galleries were built in the church so that up to 40 performers could participate in concerts. The number of concerts was limited to 5: on the last 2 ordinary Sundays after Pentecost, on the 2nd, 3rd and 4th Sundays of Advent. The basis of the repertoire consisted of works in the spirit of Italian oratorio, including multi-movement works performed over several evenings; the music of most of them has not survived. The choice of subject is connected, as far as one can judge, with the spiritual theme of the church calendar. Thus, the plot of the oratorio “The Wedding of the Lamb” (1678, only the libretto has survived) is based on the parable of the wise and foolish virgins (Matthew 25. 1-13), read by Lutherans on the last Sunday of the church year.

The development of German sacred music was more strongly influenced than Buxtehude's Musical Evenings by the works composed and performed in Hamburg at the beginning of the 18th century, which are now recognized as the first German oratorios. Their creators openly declared a break with the previous, “outdated” traditions of Lutheran church music and an orientation toward Italian samples. The initiative in this process belonged to the poets, who sought to imitate the style and structure of Italian oratorio librettos. Thus, the author of the first work of this kind, K. F. Hunold (pseudonym Menantes), wrote that his work was “entirely poetic, without an Evangelist, exactly like in the so-called Italian Oratorio.” Hunold's composition “The Bloodied and Dying Jesus...” was set to music and performed by R. Kaiser in 1704 at the Hamburg Cathedral on Holy Monday and Wednesday during the evening service. However, it was severely criticized by the pastor for its complexity and unchurch character; the public performance of this oratorio that soon followed ended in scandal: many listeners were outraged that they were being charged a fee for contemplating the Passion of Christ. The fate of the oratorio libretto by another resident of Hamburg, B. G. Brockes (“Jesus, who suffered torment and died for the sins of the world…”, 1712) turned out to be happier; All the major German composers of that time created their own version of music based on his texts. According to I. Mattheson, he even managed to perform the “Passion” according to Brockes in the cathedral (1718), however, in general, the practice of performing oratorios as a church work in Lutheran Germany was not widespread. In most cases, the work intended for worship was a combination of the Evangelist’s traditional recitative with numbers composed to the author’s poetic text. These include J. S. Bach’s “Passion”; The cantatas and oratorios of the great composer performed during the service were in the strict sense not spiritual, but church music, although the tradition of their concert performance that developed in the 19th century justifies the now often used expression “sacred music of Bach.”

The border between the eras of Baroque and Classicism in the field of religious music is not as noticeable as in secular genres, although a general tendency towards simplification and rationalization can be traced musical letters perhaps here too. The demand for the creation of such music remained great, classicist aesthetics still placed church genres at the top level of the value hierarchy, however, against the backdrop of the rapid development of other spheres of musical art, the conservatism of the works of the “church style” of the 2nd half of the 18th century - the beginning of the 19th century should be noted . Due to their official duties, mainly second-tier authors specialized in the field of church music (among whom there are many respected masters, for example M. Haydn, who worked for the Archbishop of Salzburg). In the works of the most significant composers of the era, such as J. Haydn, W. A. ​​Mozart and L. van Beethoven, the number and significance of works for church or spiritual concerts are relatively small. The only exception was the late period of J. Haydn’s work, in which 6 masses and 2 famous oratorios, “The Creation of the World” (1798) and “The Seasons” (1801), were created.
In Mozart’s work, in addition to the unfinished Requiem (1791), surrounded by legends, the field of church music mainly includes works created as part of his service in Salzburg. Among non-liturgical works on spiritual themes, the Italian cantata “David Penitent” (Davidde penitente. 1785, K. 469) stands out.

Beethoven has very few works belonging to the category of sacred music: these are 2 masses (Solemn, op. 123 (1823), and C-dur, op. 86 (1807)), the oratorio “Christ on the Mount of Olives” (1803 year), marked by the influence of Protestant music of the 18th century, 6 songs with words by K. F. Gellert (op. 48).

However, this does not mean that spiritual themes were not reflected in the works of the Viennese classics. Each of these composers had their own, unorthodox system of religious views, which was not so easy to express within the traditional genres of sacred music of the time. J. Haydn managed to do this most organically, whose late oratorios present a “harmonious” model of the universe, from which the Fall and, in general, any thought about the sinfulness of people are excluded. Having created the world beautiful and perfect, God no longer interferes in the life of nature and man - and is worthy of praise for this. Similar views were reflected in Beethoven's Pastoral Symphony.

Mozart's religious views allowed him to combine Freemasonry with formal allegiance to the Catholic Church. According to these views, dating back to Renaissance times (for example, to M. Ficino), Christianity is a special case of a broader and more complete “primordial” religion. Its carriers were allegedly ancient Egyptian priests and magicians; Having drawn wisdom from them, Moses laid the foundation for religious history, during which the original revelation was “narrowed” and partially lost. Mozart first became acquainted with such ideas back in 1773, when composing music for T. F. von Gebler’s drama “Thamos, King in Egypt”; an artistically perfect image of an ideal cult, in harmony with nature and the natural religious feeling of man, is presented in the opera “The Magic Flute,” which sums up the composer’s spiritual quest (at the same time, the Egyptian origin of such a religion in itself does not have any significant significance for Mozart values).

God-fighting, anti-clerical ideas played an important role in some periods of Beethoven's work. At the same time, the idea of ​​the saving power of art and the sacred mission of the artist was no less important for him. In the later period of his work, this idea was increasingly realized through traditional Christian images and concepts; the study of ancient polyphony and modes left its mark on the musical language of the works of this time. The composer gave the final expression of his religious feelings and views in monumental works - in the Solemn Mass (the reason for the creation of which was the dedication of Beethoven's student, Archduke Rudolf, to the rank of archbishop and then cardinal) and in the finale of the Ninth Symphony. Paying tribute to the artistic perfection of both creations (in a letter to the Schott publishing house dated March 10, 1824, the composer called the Solemn Mass his greatest work), it should be noted that the text of Schiller’s “Ode to Joy,” inspired by the religious and philosophical ideas of I. Kant, close and Beethoven, allowed the composer to express his innermost thoughts and feelings with greater brightness and directness than the canonical text of the mass. The “Beloved Father,” dwelling above the twinkling tent of the starry sky, is infinitely far from humanity, but faith in Him is a powerful, inexhaustible source of intoxicating joy, in which all people become brothers.

The work of the Viennese classics actually forms a new concept of sacred music. The contrast between sacred music (that is, belonging to the Church or closely associated with it) and secular music (providing for human needs for relaxation and entertainment) has lost its former meaning. In “high” (“classical”) music of the 19th-20th centuries, the measure of the spirituality of a particular work is determined not so much by its genre or even text, plot or theme, but by the intensity and authenticity of the composer’s spiritual life captured in it. Awareness of the revolution that took place at the turn of the 18th and 19th centuries will take a lot of time in the history of European culture, and reflection on the concept of “Sacred music” will play an important role in this process.

Illustrations:

Title page of the publication of the score of J. Gaidan’s oratorio “The Seasons”. 1802 Archive of the Orthodox Encyclopedia.

Interior c. Virgin Mary in Lubeck. Engraving from the book: Zietz H. C. Ansichten der Freien Hansestadt Lübeck und ihrer Umgebungen. Fr./M., 1820. Archive of the Orthodox Encyclopedia.

Church of the Virgin Mary, Lubeck. XIII century Archive of the Orthodox Encyclopedia.

Performance of the oratorio G. F. Handel's "Messiah" at the festival in Westminster Abbey. Engraving by J. Spilsbury. 1787 Archive of the Orthodox Encyclopedia.

Interior of the Chapel of the Holy Crucifixion at Ts. St. Marcella, Rome. 1568 Photograph. Ser. XX century Archive of the Orthodox Encyclopedia.

New Church, Rome. Engraving from the book: Borromini F. Opus architectonicum. R., 1725. Archive of the Orthodox Encyclopedia.

St. Philip Neri. Engraving from the book: Bacci P. G. Vita del B. Filippo Neri. Venetia, 1645. Archive of the Orthodox Encyclopedia.

Chapter I. Partes choral concert of the second half

XVII - early XVIII centuries

1.1. Historical background

1.3. The figurative sphere and the theme of concerts

1.4. Texture features

1.5.Intonation structure

1.6. Features of the structure

Chapter II. Classical choir concert of the second half

XVIII - early XIX centuries

2.7. Historical background

2.2.Development and dissemination of the classical concert

2.3. The meaning of the poetic text 69 2. Choral texture

2.5.Musical themes, features of harmony

2.6. Musical form

Chapter III. Spiritual concert of the 20th century

3.1. Historical background of the “spiritual renaissance” at the turn of the 19th-20th century and at the end of the 20th century

3.2.Development of the genre of spiritual concert 117 3.3.Theme and textual basis of spiritual concerts

3.4. Choral texture

3.5.Musical thematics, mode-tonal features

3.6. Features of shaping< 154 Заключение 167 Библиография 179 Приложение I. Нотные примеры 211 Приложение II. Список духовных концертов

Introduction of the dissertation (part of the abstract) on the topic “Russian spiritual concert. History and theory of the genre"

For choral art at the present stage of its development, the processes of genre transformations are becoming more and more relevant and exciting for a wide range of phenomena. In modern musicology, genre appears as a form of existence of music in society, a form of sound manifestation of human worldview and thinking. In its ontological integrity, the genre carries a certain code, and the genre approach to the study and perception of music implies an idea not only of norms musical language, but also about the peculiarities of the worldview, about the musical and communicative situation programmed in a given genre, about its place in the genre system of the era, and, accordingly, about the hierarchy of values ​​and forms of functioning of musical culture.

It so happened historically for many reasons that the rich spiritual and musical heritage of the past, forgotten and as if forever disappeared from the memory of history, was again destined to rise again and reveal itself to the searching gaze of modernity. Composers, performers, and musicologists were equally called upon to comprehend the past era in order to continue the interrupted tradition of church and temple art, who saw their goal as the revival of a huge cultural layer of the national spiritual heritage. Among the large number of genres of sacred music in modern compositional and performing practice, a special place has been occupied by the sacred choral concert - a long-lived genre that has experienced many transformations over the three-century history of its development, but has surprisingly retained its face and place in musical culture: Multifaceted and changeable, The spiritual concert experienced a period of bright prosperity in the 20th century.

A number of modern, sometimes very free interpretations by composers of this genre clearly confirm the idea of ​​constant development and, consequently, its gradual transformation. This idea has been varied by different researchers. As M. Bakhtin writes, for example, “a genre is always the same and not the same, always old and new at the same time. That is why the genre is able to ensure unity and continuity of development." In relation to music, the same idea is carried out by O. Sokolov, noting that “it is necessary to imagine the morphological system (of music - I.S.) as dynamic, taking into account all kinds of changes in the life of genres and genres, their complex mutual influence, the emergence of new and rethinking of previous phenomena ." .

Various approaches to the study of genre in music indicate both the complexity of the phenomenon itself and the activity of its multidimensional research. As is known, the traditional approach is associated with the consideration of genre as a classification category (M. Kagan and some musicologists also call it morphological). In this case, the genre continues to remain, first of all, a category of specific and generic division of music. Another direction in the germination of the “etymological” basis of the concept of genre is determined in modern theory by the idea of ​​genre as a typological category (a similar status of the genre was emphasized by G. Pospelov: “Genres are not a historically specific phenomenon, but a typological one”). At the same time, the genre itself in the context of the approach under consideration acts as a “type”, “holistic model” (T. Chernova), “matrix” (E. Nazaikinsky), “typological generalization” (M. Mikhailov), etc.

Some authors, to indicate the basis of a larger or deeper genre community, resort to the concept of a “genre archetype” (M. Aranovsky). The word archetype itself, translated from Greek, means beginning, principle, and can be understood both as the beginning and as something important that is inherent in the genre. In one of M. Aranovsky’s works, the category of genre is also associated with the concept of “genetic code,” which is interpreted here as the content of the genre’s memory. This article by M. Aranovsky is an extensive and in-depth study of the question posed by the author “what the genre remembers” and what “genetic code” it brings with it to a musical work, since the author designates the central problem of the genre as “the problem of a stable type of work.” In this case, these concepts, indeed, highlight the nature of the genre references of the work differently than the categories of “genre canon”, “norm”, switching attention from some external prescription, “imperative” - to the internal potential and need to generate different types historical existence of the genre.

M. Aranovsky strives to identify the stable structure of the genre as its invariant, which ensures the existence of a “genre paradigm” that “vertically” unites specific works. According to Aranovsky, a system of features forms the structure of a genre in a combination of its external and internal sides. The external one, in contact with the real world, expresses the ontological essence of the genre, determined by the social context and situational function. The internal structure is the carrier of the “genetic code” of the genre, and “the fulfillment of the conditions laid down in it ensures the reproduction of the genre in a new text.” In the context of postmodernism, the concept of “genetic memory” of the genre takes on a special meaning and relevance.

In the second half of the 20th century, in the era of the collapse of classical canons, the loss of integrity and stability of style and genre, musical art finds new genre-forming paths. Stereotypes are being demolished, the usual genre boundaries are being blurred, new genres are being discovered, in which the outlines of the old ones are barely discernible. Innovation comes to the fore as one of the cultural attitudes. One of the consequences of this process is, according to M. Lobanova, the penetration of genre experimentation into music. In addition, the genre-genre loses its typological stability and becomes a multiple phenomenon, growing into a “supergenre” or providing the opportunity for multiple readings of the cyclic form.

The genre and style diversity of modern spiritual choral concerts necessitates subsequent generalization in order to understand the specifics of the genre as a whole and determine its general characteristics. The nature of the images, the connection with the stable traditions of concert genres in the individual works under consideration are not the same, and they can be classified as a concert genre with more or less justification, sometimes quite conditionally. It is absolutely clear that a scientific and objective assessment requires the development of clear criteria genre essence spiritual concert at the present stage.

That is why the spiritual choral concert (with its internal laws) requires a comprehensive study from the point of view of its place in the historical-musical and historical-cultural process. The model of the history of a separate genre in the form of a single evolutionary line remains in demand today more than ever, because in the history of music there are phenomena of “non-unidirectionality” and “nonlinearity” of genre processes. This determines the relevance of the chosen topic.

One of the factors determining the evolution of the genre is the presence of two interconnected sides in the nature of its functioning - activity (related to its life purpose) and artistic (arising from its belonging to art). The nature of the relationship between these sides is a changeable phenomenon. The primacy of the active side contributes to the strengthening of tradition, existing norms and leads to the conservation of the genre model. The predominance of the artistic side leads to a violation of existing stereotypes, to constant updating due to the changing nature of art. Particularly indicative is the relationship between the active and artistic sides as a factor determining the nature of the evolutionary process in the field of cult genres.

The historically determined duality of the genre of the choral concert - spiritual in origin (“means that it can be included in the divine service”) and predominantly secular in existence (the name concert “firmly connects it with a specific area of ​​​​secular art”) - was the reason for its complex historical reputation. Some considered the concert insufficiently spiritual, others considered it unrelated to secular musical culture.

The Russian choral spiritual concert, which historically developed towards the end of the 17th century, still exists today as a genre of liturgical singing in the Russian Orthodox Church. Despite the fact that “there is no name concert in the liturgical charter, it is firmly established in the rite of the liturgy. Moreover, the concert has a specific place in the service: it is performed during the communion of the clergy in the altar. [.]. Throughout the 18th century, the concert genre quickly developed and firmly established itself in worship, gradually replacing the sacramental verse.”

The consolidation of the concert genre in church services has led to a change in the very understanding of the essence of liturgical singing: it becomes an element not strictly liturgical, but associated with extraneous phenomena brought from outside, often to satisfy the aesthetic sense of parishioners, demonstrate the art of singing, and compositional skills. [.] As a result, the artistic function began to prevail over the vital, ritual function.”

In the second half of the 18th century, a revaluation and rethinking of the choral concert genre took place. It began to be viewed as a monofunctional cult, and its musical and genre universality, which was a consequence of polyfunctionality, became incomprehensible and unjustified, causing criticism from Russian musicians of the 19th century.

In the 20th century, IL Gardner, in a fundamental study devoted to the liturgical music of the Russian Orthodox Church, defines the concert as a para-liturgical genre, in turn related to non-statutory, non-canonical singing. He includes among them those compositions that are intended to be performed at certain moments of the divine service, although not provided for by the charter, but approved by the church authorities for their performance in the church.

The degree of development of the problem.

The diversity and complexity of the processes of genre formation of a spiritual concert have always been the subject of close attention of researchers. Thus, already in the 18th century, academician Jacob von Staehlin (a witness to the early flowering of the classical spiritual concert genre) in his work “News on Music in Russia” (1769) left a number of information useful for understanding the historical pattern of the emergence of a new concert-choral style for that time. In 1867, D. Razumovsky’s book “Church Singing in Russia” was published. Generalizations made by Razumovsky served as the basis for A. Preobrazhensky’s book “Cult Music in Russia,” published in 1924.

Starting from the 1930s, T. Livanova made a great contribution to the study of the partes concerto (second half of the 17th - early 18th centuries), and later - in the 1960s - S. Skrebkov, Yu. Keldysh, N. Uspensky. Subsequently, research in this area was successfully continued by V. Protopopov, N. Gerasimova-Persidskaya, T. Vladyshevskaya and many others. The efforts of these authors revealed the wealth of an entire century of Russian professional culture, which has enormous historical and artistic significance.

The scientific understanding of the classical choral concert (the second half of the 18th - early 19th centuries), which was created in the era of the rapid formation of the Russian school of composition in its active ties with Western European culture, proceeded differently. The classical concerto was studied, as a rule, using examples of the work of one or another composer (M. Berezovsky, D. Bortnyansky, etc.). As a result, each study was of a private, local nature, which did not make it possible to trace the fate of this genre as a whole. M. Rytsareva’s monographic study “The Spiritual Concert in Russia in the Second Half of the 18th Century,” published in 2006, is the first serious work devoted to the classical choral concert as an independent and holistic phenomenon.

Spiritual concert late XIX- the beginning of the 20th century, called late romantic, due to certain historical patterns of its development, does not become the leading genre in composer's creativity, as in previous periods, so special works devoted to it are quite few in number. The most interesting is the research of I. Dabaeva, who published several scientific articles on the style and genre trends of the spiritual concert of this period.

In addition, as is known, at this stage many composers of the New Direction turned to the study of the genre, and the heated controversy that accompanied their activities, including their compositional work, has found its response in our time. Before 1917, many works about the New Direction were published, among their authors were the leading critics and composers of those days - A. Nikolsky, A. Kastalsky, A. Grechaninov, N. Kompaneisky, priest. M. Lisitsyn, A. Preobrazhensky. To date, many new works have been created about the movement in question: these are books, articles, chapters in the collective works of A. Kandinsky, N. Gulyanitskaya, M. Rakhmanova, S. Zvereva, E. Levashev and others, revealing both the work of individual composers and general theoretical and practical issues related to their activities.

The enormous interest that has arisen in the genre of spiritual concert in modern musicology has also aroused a number of works in this direction. The most fruitful study of it is carried out by such researchers as Yu. Paisov- and N. Gulyanitskaya. A significant contribution to the definition of the genre of the temple (choir) concert in the second half of the 20th century in Russia and Orthodox abroad was made by musicologist S. Khvatova, who defended her PhD thesis in 2006.

In musicological literature different periods many issues related to sacred music were raised, but the spiritual concert as an independent genre, as a separate branch of Russian art with its own history, with its own patterns, traditions, relationships with other musical genres, in its progressive significance for the development of Russian musical culture, was not subject to separate complex analysis.

The object of the study is the genre of the Russian spiritual concert throughout its evolution, that is, from the mid-17th to the beginning of the 21st century.

The subject of the study is the evolution of the Russian spiritual concert genre and its typological features.

The purpose of the work is to study the main stages of the development of the Russian spiritual concert with the identification of the forms and methods of its existence in the system of Russian musical art.

Achieving this goal requires solving a number of problems:

To trace the evolution of the Russian spiritual concert (general characteristics of the genre, determination of its boundaries, historical prospects);

Consider the dynamics of modification of the stylistic parameters of the genre based on the analysis of the texts of spiritual concerts, their texture, musical thematics, and formation;

Identify stable and mobile features of the genre with the definition of its archetypal model;

To establish the degree of compliance of modern spiritual concerts with their genre prototype and to identify factors for updating the genre;

Determine the role of the spiritual concert in the formation of Russian choral culture.

Research methodology. In solving the designated range of problems, a number of general scientific research methods were used, but the following methodological principles are directly related to the problems of the work. The most relevant seems to be the historical-typological approach of modern theory, which focuses on the modification of the characteristics of the genre in its diachronic existence and in the context of historical changes in genre systems as a whole, which dictates the need to include its history in the theoretical consideration of the genre, systematics by identifying the “structure of the historical formation of the genre” , his “models of development”. “In the light of the historical-typological approach, the phenomenon of genre appears as the embodiment of the dialectic of the stable and the changeable in the artistic-historical process.” That is why it became necessary to attract works of a wide range of content created by domestic authors.

In developing the topic, works on philosophy (N. Berdyaev), cultural studies (L. Berezovaya, N. Berlyakova), as well as the history of Russian music and church singing in Russia (M. Brazhnikov, V. Vladyshevskaya, I. Gardner, N. Kompaneisky, Yu. Keldysh, M. Lisitsyn,

B. Metallov, A. Nikolsky, A. Preobrazhensky, D. Razumovsky,

S. Smolensky, N. Uspensky). The methodological basis was also research on issues of Christian culture and* art, works on liturgics, theology (V. Bychkov, I. Ilyin, D. Likhachev, T. Livanova, V. Martynov, V. Medushevsky, OLavel Florensky, etc.) .

For the development of this topic, works concerning the study of the historical context, the essence of the changes that took place in Russian sacred music (research by T. Vladyshevskoshch N. Gerasimova-Persidskaya, N. Gulyanitskaya, I. Dabaeva, E. Dolinskaya, N. Zabolotnaya, A. .Kandinsky, E. Levashev, N.P. and N.V. Parfentiev, Y. Paisov, V. Protopopov, L. Raaben, M. Rakhmanova, M. Shytsareva). Archival materials from the collections of the State Historical Museum (Moscow), the Central State Archive of Ancient Acts (Moscow), the State Library named after V.I. Lenin (Moscow) were of great importance for determining the features: development - genre: of the Russian spiritual concert. . Moscow).

Along with the historical research method, which allows us to consider the phenomenon under study in the process of its formation and in the general artistic context of the era, analytical methods of musicology are used (the theoretical basis is the fundamental concepts of modern musicology, presented in the works of B. Asafiev, V. Bobrovsky, V. Vasina-Grossman , V. Kholopova, Y. Kholopova, etc.), including developments on issues of genre and style (M. Aranovsky, A. Korobova, M. Lobanova, E. Nazaikinsky, G. Pospelov, O. Sokolov A. Sokhor) .

As a guideline, M. Aranovsky’s position is adopted that “the determination of the external and internal structures of the genre allows us to understand the mechanism of its historical evolution.” That is why the genre of spiritual concert in the dissertation research is included in the broad picture of social and cultural life countries. It was important to comprehend the identified material in time, in the process of stylistic changes, in the interaction of traditions, national and genre influences, the creative individualities of its largest creators, in the value systems of a particular period. All these research angles taken together should present the choral concert of each era in its living connection with culture and life.

Revealing the most striking works in the genre of spiritual concert, the composer's work is analyzed both from the point of view of individual characteristics and stylistic dynamics, and in comparison with the compositions of his predecessors and contemporaries. The category of the author's style is considered in the dissertation as a multi-level system of principles of the composer's artistic thinking, generated by the task of embodying religious themes in the genre of a spiritual choral concert.

Turning to the consideration of the stylistic parameters of the Russian spiritual concert at different stages of its evolution led to the choice of a unified system of presentation and material, where such components of the genre as the textual basis, texture, musical thematics, and formation are chosen as parameters of the musical and poetic series. The unity of the method allows us to more clearly trace the evolutionary changes that occurred in the genre of the spiritual concert throughout its development, and to identify stable and mobile genre features. It is this approach that, as its ultimate goal, involves a comprehensive and highly informative look at this area of ​​musical creativity.

The scientific novelty and theoretical significance of the work is determined by the insufficient degree of development of this problem, and its study is determined by the following parameters:

For the first time, an attempt has been made to study the spiritual concert as a single, genre-defined layer of Russian music;

For the first time, the Russian spiritual concert is studied comprehensively from the point of view of its historical, evolutionary development;

The most important point of the work is to clarify the changes in the “genre archetype” of a spiritual concert at various levels of the musical and poetic series (text, texture, musical theme, form);

A large number of little-known, but no less artistically valuable works by composers of past eras (V. Titov, N. Diletsky, S. Degtyarev, A. Grechaninov, A. Nikolsky, etc.), as well as new works, are being introduced into scientific circulation modern authors(G. Dmitriev, V. Dovgan, N. Sidelnikov, D. Smirnov, S. Trubachev, A. Schnittke and others).

Provisions for defense:

The Russian spiritual choral concert is a deeply rooted phenomenon that did not arise spontaneously, but through the interaction of many processes in religious and secular life and therefore largely dependent on the specific historical and cultural situation of a particular era;

The spiritual concert developed discretely, that is, in peculiar bright “flashes”, passing through several successive stylistic formations - from the Baroque partes (second half of the 17th - early 18th centuries), through the classical concert (second half of the 18th - early 19th centuries), late romantic ( late XIX - early XX) and, finally, to the modern (late XX - early XXI centuries).

On various stages in the development of the Russian spiritual concert, qualitative metamorphoses took place, which ultimately led to a transformation of the genre, expressed in a series of genre modulations and changes in the parameters of the genre;

The spiritual text, the principles of the concert and a pronounced national characteristic remain constant qualities that determine the belonging of various musical forms and models to the genre of the spiritual choral concert.

The practical value of the study lies in the fact that it has prospects for further deeper and more comprehensive study of this issue, for use in choirmaster and pedagogical practice. The dissertation research will draw the attention of professional musicians, choirmasters, and regents to this problem. church choirs, music teachers educational institutions. This work can be used in lecture courses on choral literature, choral studies, choral arrangement, history of Russian music and Russian sacred music.

Approbation of work. The dissertation was discussed at a meeting of the Department of History and Theory of Music of the Saratov State Conservatory named after L.V. Sobinova. Many aspects developed in the dissertation constituted one of the sections of I. Sviridova’s author’s work program for the course “Russian Sacred Music” for music schools (colleges) and schools (colleges) of the arts; they are practically used by the author in the lecture course “Russian Sacred Music” in Saratov Regional College of Arts (2003-2009).

The main conclusions and provisions of the dissertation research were presented by the author at scientific conferences in the form of articles, theses and reports: II International Scientific and Practical Conference “Music in the Modern World: Science, Pedagogy, Performance” (Tambov, 2006), V and VI All-Russian scientific and practical conferences for students and graduate students “Problems of culture and art in the worldview of modern youth: continuity and innovation” (Saratov, 2006, 2007), International scientific and practical conference “IV Serebryakov Scientific Readings” (Volgograd, 2006 ), International scientific and practical conference of students and graduate students “Musical art and science in the modern world” (Astrakhan, 2006), All-Russian scientific and practical conference “Bolkhovitinovsky readings - 2007” “Cultural space of Russia: past, present, future” ( Voronezh, 2007), International scientific and practical conference “Current problems of history, theory and methodology of modern musical art and education” (Orenburg, 2008), Open scientific and practical conference dedicated to the 125th anniversary of the birth of B. Asafiev (Saratov, 2009)

Work structure. Throughout the history of its existence, which is more than three centuries, the genre of the Russian spiritual concert has gone through certain stages of its development and the most intense flowering. Four main stages in the evolutionary development of the genre are clearly distinguished: partes choral concert (second half of the 17th - early 18th centuries), classical choral concert (second half of the 18th - early 19th centuries), late romantic choral concert (late 19th - early 20th centuries), modern choral concert concert (late 20th - early 21st century). The first two stages are studied separately in the dissertation; chapters I and II of the study are respectively devoted to them. It seemed fruitful to study the last two stages (Chapter III of the work) by comparison in view of the following considerations: firstly, these periods are part of a single era, marking two milestone phases of artistic development, and secondly, many discoveries in the genre of sacred music that were made at the turn of the 19th-20th centuries, continued at the end of the 20th century. Thus, the presented dissertation research consists of an Introduction, three chapters, a Conclusion, a Bibliography and two appendices.

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Conclusion of the dissertation on the topic “Musical Art”, Sviridova, Irina Aleksandrovna

CONCLUSION

The Russian spiritual choral concert is “a deeply rooted phenomenon that arose not spontaneously, but through the interaction of many processes in religious and secular life.” Considering the evolution of the genre from a historical perspective, it can be noted that the spiritual concert was “open” to new trends in art, especially at turning points in the history of Russia, therefore it is always modern and in demand in society. “As the centuries-old history of Russian choral music shows, the concert is as paramount, the leading genre for it (in terms of the importance of the artistic concepts it contains) as for instrumental music - a symphony, for theatrical music - opera, etc.” . The active creative search of composers and the intensive evolution of the spiritual concert in the last two decades indicate that the artistic and liturgical potential of the genre has not yet been exhausted.

Considering the special path of development of the spiritual choral concert, the dissertation proves the deep internal conditionality of the primacy of the artistic side in the functioning of this genre, which led, on the one hand, to the bright originality of its features, determined by the properties of the musical language, and, on the other hand, to the pulsating nature of evolution, combining both periods of prosperity, rise, and prolonged oblivion.

Let us recall that the spiritual concert passed in its historical evolution through several successive stylistic formations - from the Baroque partes (late 17th - early 18th centuries), through the classical concert (late 18th - early 19th centuries), late romantic (late 19th - early 20th centuries) and, finally, to the modern (late 20th - early 21st centuries). The partes concert appears as the beginning of the evolution of the genre, the classical - as a formed genre archetype, with clearly developed genre characteristics, the late romantic - as the beginning of the transformation of the genre due to a change in its artistic side and a gradual division into two types - temple and extra-temple, modern - as a complete change in the genre structures, the formation of a new style and genre concept.

A peculiar pattern can be traced in the evolution of the genre. If you pay attention to the historical periodization, you can clearly see that the spiritual concert developed discretely, that is, in peculiar bright “flares”. Then, around the middle of each century, the spiritual concert fell into a period of inertia. During such periods, most likely, there was a comprehension of the accumulated experience in this genre and after a certain period of time it, like a “phoenix from the ashes,” was reborn with extraordinary force and in a completely new quality.

Modern researchers of the spiritual concert are trying to understand and explain the true reasons for such “nonlinearity” and discontinuity in the development of the genre. Among the main reasons, the following can be identified: the partes concert did not develop due to the fact that the church authorities began to impede innovation, that is, the penetration of elements of secular culture into the spiritual, and “the intonation structure of the concert lagged behind the pace of evolution of the intonation structure of the era.” The classical concert did not receive further bright development due to the cruel government reaction and censorship of the directors of the Court Singing Chapel - a period of “gloomy timelessness” (E. Levashev). And finally, the Soviet era was the time of the existence of an atheistic culture that rejected any attempts to create religious music.

It can definitely be noted that the evolution of the genre took place in close interaction with the historical, political, and ideological situation in Russia. The impetus4 for intensive development has always been intense periods in the history of our country, marked by significant shifts in social and cultural life and the formation of new criteria, new trends in art. Developing discretely, this universal genre of choral music is revived in every era in a completely new quality, but at the same time maintains its traditions and continuity in the development of Russian choral art.

The similarity of all periods of the rise of the spiritual concert genre lies in the increasing role of choral music in the artistic life of society and in the appeal to ancient layers national culture, to those aspects of it that carry a high ethical and moral principle. Each “wave of revival” bore the imprint of its time, the general stylistic direction in the art of its era. Particularly noteworthy is the difference between the last period of development of spiritual genres, associated with the forcible limitation of the influence of cult music. If at previous stages the development of sacred music was based on the continuous tradition of its existence (receding into the background, pushed aside by other forms, but still continuing to be passed on from generation to generation in live sound), then after the revolution of 1917 for a significant part of society there was a partial break in traditions , and as a result, direct continuity in the transmission of the entire wealth of spiritual genres associated with church ritual was lost.

Initially, the spiritual concert was formed as a genre intended for church services, but the peculiarities of its development are associated with the gradual secularization of the genre, with the strengthening of the secular principle. Having gone through a long path of evolution, the spiritual concert at the present stage is a “complex synthetic formation.” Spiritual concerts in the post-Soviet era, formed in new modern forms, become a kind of “zone of free creativity”, where secular methods of development quite rightfully strengthen the concert branch of the once church genre.

Another important aspect in identifying the features of the development of the genre is the process of strengthening the individual, authorial principle. The question of churchliness and spirituality of any form of art cannot be separated from the question of religious experience and life understanding, for any art reflects, first of all, the inner world of a person, the tone of his attitude towards to the outside world, to people and to yourself. The creator-artist appears against the background of the life understanding and aspirations of his era and his society. Therefore, speaking about the composer’s spiritual works, it is necessary to consider his work in connection with the religious and church state of his contemporary society.

Each spiritual composer, reading a spiritual text, conveys not so much what is given in this text, but how he perceives it, what feelings arise in him when reading or thinking about this text. The church composer is subjective to a much lesser extent, and because of this, he is more contemplative. He does not embody his own feelings, but the feelings of the entire church.

Starting from the choral concerts of V. Titov, D. Bortnyansky, where the specificity of the author’s style is already becoming obvious, but is still associated with the more unified styles of Baroque and Classicism (in comparison with the 19th century) and until the beginning of the 20th century, one can observe the most interesting processes in the development of individual creativity beginnings in the genre under study.

The Baroque era was the heir to pre-individualist periods in the history of art. In a partes concert, the musical material is replete with phrases of a general nature, peculiar stylistic “clichés” that could move from the works of one composer to the work of another. The classical concert, while retaining in many respects the typical features of its predecessor, is significantly enriched due to the bright musical thematics that acquire an individual context. The musical structure of D. Bortnyansky's concerts, combining the features of instrumentality and folk song character, was noticeably different from the works of A. Wedel, who relied on Ukrainian songwriting, or the concerts of S. Degtyarev, who developed the features of an operatic melodic style.

The romantic 19th century began to cultivate a unique, inimitable style of the artist-genius, marked by the spark of God. Although the formation of individual geniuses occurred earlier, in XIX century The requirement for each artist to have his own indispensable stylistic individuality has become overwhelming. That is why the concerts of A. Arkhangelsky, A. Grechaninov, A. Nikolsky, P. Chesnokov and others receive a completely individual focus, both from the point of view of musical and thematic content, and from the point of view of compositional structure.

The 20th century developed its own standards regarding style. As the heir to the most “individualistic” 19th century, he also jealously guards the “sovereignty of an individually unique compositional style.” But due to the conscious pluralism of culture, the 20th century formed a “fundamental stylistic plurality”, so the main, central stylistic concept remained the concept of an individual, inimitable, unique composer’s style, which is largely determined by “objective socio-cultural conditions and personality traits of the author.”

At the present stage of development of the genre of spiritual concert, Yu. Paisov notes the individual author’s interpretation of the genre, and, discussing the topic of the continuation and development of the tradition of the genre, states the fact that if “...some of the choir directors conducting everyday practical work with church choirs cannot do not take into account the specifics! modern singing practice in relation to worship and sometimes provide examples of a choral concert intended for the service, then composers who compose spiritual concerts today often consider themselves free from the need to follow certain traditions of the genre, the established signs of the “genre style” (A. Sokhor), and according to they choose at their own discretion (without regard to the history of the genre) the literary basis, the musical language, and the style of the work.”

The musical language in an individual composer's style includes many parameters - the author's characteristic personal intonation, a unique choice of genre means, favorite dramatic concepts of musical works, an individual interpretation of the elements of a musical composition - harmony, melody, rhythm, musical form, texture. Thus, in contrast to the overall appearance of partes concerts, the individualization of the spiritual concert genre at the end of the 20th century was brought to a certain absolute.

The return to life of the ancient concert genre is taking place today under special historical conditions. Therefore, in its modern state (in contrast to the previous, pre-revolutionary appearance of this genre), the domestic choral concert represents a completely different quality - although very relevant and promising (like everything that now relates to the sphere of spiritual songwriting), but stylistically quite motley and genre-specific unsettled phenomenon.

At the present stage, the dual nature of the modern concert is becoming even clearer: as a genre, it is rooted in the distant past and grows out of it, continuing the life of a centuries-old tradition in music (this connection determines the real historical prerequisites for the current revival of the concert), and as a unique artistic layer, it entirely belongs to the modern era, is a completely new historical and stylistic formation.

In order to understand what a spiritual concert is today, it is necessary to emphasize two integral aspects of the genre under study - its traditionality and novelty, historically stable, constant and opposing it - dynamic, changeable. These are precisely those pairs of dialectically related concepts that correspond to any historically developing phenomenon.

The sacred choral concert in the second half of the 20th century turned out to be more included in the system of secular choral genres than the chants of liturgical cycles. Therefore, its fate and features of modern functioning have developed somewhat differently. The revival of the choral concert genre in the second half of the 20th century was not a restoration of the genre archetype, but its generalized embodiment, a reflection of the ideas of modern composers about the past of Russian musical culture.

The lack of continuity in the existence of the choral concert could not but affect the structure of the genre, the complex of defining genre features in the works of the new stage of the genre’s existence. Choral concerts of the modern period are characterized by a wide range of these characteristics.

The genre is currently in a state of transformation, as evidenced by many factors. Innovation is manifested in different aspects and directions of choral creativity. There is an expansion of the system of musical expressive means: on the one hand, an appeal to ancient Russian, archaic layers, on the other, a desire for a radical update of musical compositional techniques (dodecaphony, seriality, co-norics, aleatorics). In the musical language of their compositions, composers boldly introduce modern compositional techniques and means of expression, originally formed in secular works (from tonality to seriality, from speech recitation to harmonic polyphony).

The internal genre "restructuring" also gives rise to the possibility of multiple readings of the cycle, its ambiguous interpretation. This is due to new dramatic solutions, principles of compositional organization, due to a departure from the norms of the classical type of concert.

Numerous examples speak of one of the most important properties of modern spiritual choral concerts - optional belonging to a genre. choral singing Unaccompanied. Their performing composition is extremely diverse, flexible and reflects the inherent tendency of modern music to mix genres - “mixes”. “These can be compositions a cappella and accompanied by various instruments, multi-part and gravitating* towards a one-part composition, possessing. musical and dramatic unity and close to the choral suite; having a verbal singing basis and vocalizations."

The division of the spiritual concert into two independent, in many ways completely opposite types (temple and extra-temple), makes it possible to consider them independently.

In relation to concert works, the temple concert is very traditional in terms of the choice of texts, stylistic restrictions characteristic of the modern era, the composition of performers, and emotional and figurative content. At the same time, the structural organization of choir concerts is quite stable. The fundamental difference between temple singing and concert singing lies in the deep and complete impact of the texts of Holy Scripture on those praying, in the absence of bright theatrical effects or exaggerated emotional beginnings. On the contrary, simplicity, restraint, and prayerfulness are recognized as necessary in church singing, which contribute to detachment from worldly vanity.

Since the substantive component of a work always reflects its historical and cultural context, the mentality of the composer of the second half of the 20th century could not but influence the nature of the use of stylistic clichés. Therefore, let us pay attention to the fact that the framework of the stylistic canon of a choral concert is unstable and constantly subject to fluctuation; but with a steady tendency to expand, and to a much greater extent, compared, for example, with canonical genres.

The prerequisite for updating the musical language in the genre of the spiritual choral concert is deep, fundamental changes in the content of musical works, including, first of all, their literary basis. Innovation is associated with the discovery of new things in music. poetic worlds, with the introduction into musical use of texts that had not previously been embodied by composers in their works. The literary and poetic content of the concerts is almost completely reworked, which, in turn, leads to a change in the form and structure of the cycle.

Spiritual concerts at the turn of the 21st century do not have a single type of dramaturgy and gravitate towards two main directions: 1) compositions containing the plot-event plot of biblical history and 2) non-event compositions, reflecting internal spiritual processes: prayer, repentance, spiritual and moral transformation, experience states of all-encompassing Christian love, acquisition of faith, etc. In non-choir concerts there is no single constructive model of the genre. Thus, a concert can be called a one-part or cyclic composition, dividing into parts or having a contrasting nature.

Gradual changes in the sphere of content and musical language, which took place at previous stages within the framework of old forms and seemed to be bursting them from within, finally led to a qualitative leap, expressed in a series of genre modulations and shifts. The question of the synthesis of genres, genre elements and features is just as important as the question of the stability of genres. It shows how musical culture moves, and how social development and changes in reality influence musical culture, transform musical genres and their semantics. Genre synthesis in music has many forms. For a spiritual concert, the definition of genre mutation is more suitable, which means not the use of stable genre characteristics, but a qualitative transformation of the genres themselves with their characteristics. By the end of the 20th century, genre activity intensified. New hybrids arise, the most incompatible phenomena are crossed, such as concert-action, symphony-concert, concert liturgy, etc.

Thus, the return of the spiritual choral concert to life after a long period of oblivion turned out, however, not only as a revival of the old tradition, but also as the emergence of a new one, reflecting the features of the modern stage of development of Russian music. This was accompanied by a radical renewal of the figurative structure, ideological, aesthetic and compositional restructuring of the genre, enrichment with fresh stylistic layers and ideas.

Despite the serious transformation of the spiritual concert, we will highlight a number of features that make up the specifics of the concert genre, which make it possible to determine the relationship of a particular composition to a given genre structure.

One of these criteria can be, first of all, the presence or absence of concerto in a work as an obligatory and most general, generic feature of concert genres of all eras. The features of this genre were determined by musically immanent patterns associated with artistic activity. Concerting, which determines concertity as the dominant quality of the corresponding genres of any era or style, is thus a constant, historically stable feature of these genres, constitutes their core, deep essence and becomes in the process of historical evolution the main genre criterion (“memory of the genre”). .

In previous periods, concertizing was an important but subordinate factor in the functioning of the genre, arising from artistic goals and combined with its purely applied role. There is no doubt that the gradual transformation over the centuries of various characteristics of concert music (literary basis, figurative content, style, thematism, principles of development, form, cycle structure) has modified both the genre appearance of the concert as a whole and the essence of the concert. Y. Paisov notes that the modern type of concert performance “is based primarily on a contrasting figurative and thematic rather than a timbre-textural comparison of adjacent sections and parts of the cycle, coupled with the task of their ideological and semantic unification within the framework of a common concept. What comes to the fore is the principle of end-to-end development of the idea, individually implemented depending on the specific plan, number of parts and type of images.”

However, the analysis of spiritual concerts carried out in this study confirms that concertation manifests itself as a special type of musical presentation, based on the dialogic development of the dominant and the oppositional ideas generated by it, on the dialogic contrast of expression of emotions and states, on the opposition-“struggle” of performing (solo, ensemble, choral) possibilities, on the dramaturgy of contrasts of pitch, texture, timbro-acoustic, etc.). Thus, “concert dialogue” (G. Demeshko) is embedded in the “genetic code” of the genre, and its dual nature is clearly manifested both in words and in music.

Another important feature of a spiritual concert is the figurative and semantic side of the genre, associated with the textual basis. Note that the stylistic dynamics of the concert for a long time did not directly depend on those poetic features that classify the genre on the basis of literary models (psalms, sacraments, troparia, stichera, etc.). According to the observations of scientists, “developed concerto-like forms” contain traditional textual forms used in church services.

A noticeable expansion of the main topics and literary sources occurs only at the end of the 20th century in modern composers’ work and, despite this, the main criterion determining belonging to the genre being studied remains the text of spiritual content, even if it is presented in the author’s interpretation. The spiritual constant of poetic form remains unchanged.

In modern composers' creativity, the problem of interpreting genre “naming” inevitably arises: Do the concerts of modern authors who call their works a choral concert correspond to their genre designation? It is today, as a rule, that the problem of a genre form arises - a form based on a seemingly well-known g genre, but interpreted in the spirit of the individual author’s vision.

The dissertation research examined works with author's designations - spiritual; concert. However, in connection with specific forms of genre interactions: c. this or that work, it was revealed that the works;, sometimes called choral concertos (or with concert features in the features of the musical language), were written in other genre forms, such as, for example, a chamber cantata (“Poems of Repentance” by A. Schnittke, “Hants of the Mother of God” by A. Mikit). Likewise, it is difficult to classify works with a significant degree of influence from folklore, musical and dramatic genres, both individually and in their synthesis, into the sphere of this genre (“Old Russian Sufferings” by G. Dmitriev, “Repentance” by V. Kalistratov). There are a number of works that do not have the designation concert, but have a special genre concept, the greatest correspondence to the genre prototype or the genre idea of ​​​​concerting (“8 spiritual chants” by N. Karetnikov, “Miracle-working faces”, “Prayers” by Yu. Falik, “The Ineffable Miracle” by G. .Sviridova and others).

At the present stage, there is a process of “crystallization” of the genre, a search for genre specificity, and a movement towards its concept. As a result of this evolution, two main types of genre interactions are distinguished: with a predominance of characteristic features of other genres; with the predominance of the structure of the genre of the spiritual choral concert, in which the figurative-semantic, compositional-dramatic, textural-virtuoso side of the genre can be of fundamental importance. As a result, the genre of spiritual concert allows for an increasing number of genre components and the variability of their combinations. Repetitions are avoided - even taking a well-established and well-known scheme as a basis, the composer gives a new version of its reading.

The prospects of the concert choral genre of Russian music among other choral genres are increasing due to its strongly national character, which has retained historical viability since the 18th century only on Russian-Ukrainian soil. The restoration of this line of continuity in the development of national choral art also means expansion, deepening of the soil, strengthening of ties with the national tradition. As the centuries-old history of Russian choral music shows, the concert is a paramount, leading genre for it in terms of the significance of the artistic concepts it contains.

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"Spiritual Concerts"

(French "Concerts spirituels") - concerts organized in Paris in 1725 AD. oboist and composer A. Philidor (Danican), who belonged to the famous French family. musicians. "D.k." were among the first regular public concerts in Europe. Administratively, they were subordinate to the Royal Academy of Music and were held on church days. holidays when the shops were closed. Concerts took place in the “Swiss” hall of the Tuileries Palace. Originally in "D.K." Only religions were performed. production, subsequently their program included secular instruments. and wok. music. The xopa and orchestra included opera and dance artists. musicians. The meaningful programs of the concerts and the participation of first-class performing forces in them contributed to the wide popularity of “D.K.”, which soon occupied one of the most important places in music. life of Paris in the 18th century. After the death of Philidor (1728) at the head of "D.K." there were prominent French musicians, incl. J. J. Mype, J. H. P. Royer, A. Dauvergne, composer and violinist P. Gavinier (together with F. J. Gossec), etc. The largest foreigners performed as soloists. artists. The heyday of "D.K." continued until the Great French. revolution; at the end of the 18th century. they were renewed, but no longer had the same meaning. Based on the model of the Parisian "D.K." (and under the same name) similar concerts were organized in different times. European countries (Germany, England, Austria). In Russia, similar concerts have been organized since Sept. 70s 18th century foreign participants adv. troupes during Lent. B 1780 ital. violinist A. Lolly announced a cycle of three "D. k." with the participation of singers chapels. At the end of the 18th century. The organization of such concerts was undertaken by the Directorate of St. Petersburg. imp. t-row (thus, in 1800 the cycle “D. K.” took place, in which, among other works, Guglielmi’s “New Italian Oratorio” was performed).
Literature: Keldysh Yu., Russian music of the 18th century, M., 1965, p. 126-31; Bobillier M. (pseud. Brenet M.), Les concerts en France sous l "ancien régime, P., 1900. Yu. V. Keldysh.


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