The article presents the results of the research on musical and artistic creation of the image of one of the most striking creatures — the cuckoo. The ways to implement the peculiarities of its singing in instrumental compositions of the XVIIth – XIXth centuries are revealed and described in cultural and stylistic context. The authors analyze the role of timbre-intonational components of the bird's singing in the formation of some acoustic model, which becomes the basis for its representation by instrumental means in composer's works. The special sound pitch and rhythmic organization, together with timbre, representing the characteristics of the acoustic signal source, make it possible to recognise the cuckoo's voice in nature, while measured and repeated intonational complex becomes an absolute index-sign for perception. This research revealed that the method of artistic modeling appears to be the main one in creating the image of a cuckoo in music. A two-step falling intonational figure, which migrates in the works of composers of different styles and nationalities, becomes the invariant. Preserving its main features, it changes under the influence of the context — metrorhythmic, dynamic, agogic and other components of the text. Distinguishing the characteristic intonation in our perception, the timbre component largely determines its transformation in a musical text. The result is a wide development of timbre-intonational model.
Individualization in music art at the turn of the XXth – XXIst centuries affected not only the concept of the composer's opus, but also the style, manner of writing, and composition of performers. At the same time, the focus on novelty coexists with the actualization of artistic experience of the near and distant past. In addition, the junction of these trends includes "excursions" to other art forms. In this sense, particularly interesting are the works by the composers at the intersection of cultures, epochs and languages. Such examples include the poem for viola and piano "The Agony in the Garden" (based on El Greco's painting) by Margarita Zelenaia (born 1954) — composer, pianist, teacher, organizer, uniting the traditions of Russian and Western schools. The article deals with the specifics of the musical implementation of the eternal Gospel story depicted in the painting "The Agony in the Garden" by the Renaissance artist El Greco. The concept of Margarita Zelenaia's unique programme work is born at the "crossroads" of various types of art and the Gospel word, modernity and Baroque. Her dramaturgy is based on a system of symbolically loaded leitentonations — the author's reinterpretation of the rhetorical figures of the Baroque.
The article discusses some of the notable and promising ideas of M. G. Aranovsky, developed into a theory of intertextual interactions. Having independent scientific and applied significance, this theory has found a continuation in a number of studies by the Ural musicologists of the last decade. These works, aimed at exploring the semantic organization of musical text by composers of different eras and styles, are based on the methodology of the outstanding scientist, whose unique theory as a result receives further life and development. The article attempts to determine the value and prospects of these works and, in this regard, analyzes the main provisions, observations and generalizations presented in some of the most interesting studies, carried out using the tools of intertextual interactions analysis and solving the problem of comprehending the processes of textual meaning making. In assessing the prospects for the concept of intertextual interactions, the application of M. G. Aranovsky's theory provides an opportunity to answer questions about the meaning of composers' appeal to "alien" musical material, about the ways and principles of forming a new text, about the specificity of artistic thinking, in general. At the same time, the study of intertextual interactions opens perspectives for comprehending the processes of intercultural exchange.
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