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Landscape in music. Images of nature in the work of musicians

Nature is surprisingly diverse in colors and shapes. And how much beauty is in the forest, in the meadow, in the middle of the field, by the river, by the lake! And how many sounds in nature, the whole polyphony of choirs of insects, birds, and other animals!

Nature is a real temple of beauty, and it is no coincidence that all poets, artists, musicians drew their ideas by observing them surrounded by nature.
Music and poetry are that beautiful thing without which a person cannot live. Many composers and poets composed wonderful works about the beauty of nature. There is a soul in nature, there is a language in it, and it is given to everyone to hear this language, to understand it. Many talented people, poets, musicians managed to understand the language of nature and love it with all their hearts, therefore, they created many beautiful works.
The sounds of nature served as the basis for the creation of many musical works. Nature is powerful in music. Music was already with ancient people. Primitive people sought to study the sounds of the world around them, they helped them navigate, learn about danger, and hunt. Observing the objects and phenomena of nature, they created the first musical instruments - a drum, a harp, a flute. Musicians have always learned from nature. Even the sounds of the bell, which are heard on church holidays, sound due to the fact that the bell was created in the likeness of a bell flower.
In 1500, a copper flower was made in Italy, it was accidentally hit, and a melodious ringing sounded, the servants of the religious cult became interested in the bell, and now it sounds, delighting the parishioners with its ringing. Great musicians also learned from nature: Tchaikovsky did not leave the forest when he wrote children's songs about nature and the cycle “The Seasons”. The forest suggested to him the mood and motives of the piece of music.

A special place in our repertoire was occupied by romances by Sergei Vasilyevich Rachmaninoff.

He is distinguished by sensitivity to the poetic text, which gave birth to a melody full of lively "breathing" phrasing.
One of the best romances by Rachmaninov to the words of F. Tyutchev is "Spring Waters", full of the exciting power of awakening nature, youth, joy and optimism.

Snow is still whitening in the fields,
And the waters are noisy in spring.
They run and wake up the sleepy shore,
Run and shine and say ..
They say all over the place:
Spring is coming, spring is coming!
We are messengers of young spring,
She sent us ahead!"

Rakhmaninov. "Spring Waters"

Rakhmaninov. Romance "Spring Waters".

The poems of the great Russian poet Fyodor Ivanovich Tyutchev have been known to all Russian people since childhood. Having not yet learned to read and write, we remember his heartfelt lines by heart.

I love the storm in early May,
When spring, the first thunder,
As if frolicking and playing,
Rumbles in the blue sky.

Love and nature occupy a special place in the poet's life.

. I. Tyutchev is usually called the singer of love and nature. He was really a master of poetic landscapes, but his inspired poems are completely devoid of empty and thoughtless admiration, they are deeply philosophical. For Tyutchev, nature is identified with man, nature for him is a rational being, endowed with the ability to love, suffer, hate, admire and admire:

Fedor Tyutchev. Poems.

The theme of nature sounded for the first time with such force and pathos in Tchaikovsky's lyrics. This romance is one of Tchaikovsky's most perfect creations. It is one of the comparatively few pages of his music filled with inner harmony and fullness of happiness.

.P. Tchaikovsky was under the spell of the lyricism of A. Tolstoy's poems, their bright open emotionality. These artistic qualities helped Tchaikovsky to create a series of masterpieces of vocal lyrics based on A. Tolstoy's poems - 11 lyrical romances and 2 duets, which absorbed a whole range of human feelings, the romance "I bless you, forests" became an expression of the composer's own thoughts about nature and the universe.

I bless you forests
Valleys, fields, mountains, waters,
I bless freedom
And blue skies.
And I bless my staff
And this poor bag
And the steppe from edge to edge,
And the sun is light, and the night is darkness,
And a lonely path
Which way, beggar, I go,
And in the field every blade of grass,
And every star in the sky.
Oh, if I could mix my whole life,
To merge my whole soul with you;
Oh, if you could in my arms
I am you, enemies, friends and brothers,
And enclose all nature!

Chaikovsky. Romance "I bless you forests".

The Russian composer Rimsky-Korsakov knew firsthand about the sea. As a midshipman, and then as a midshipman on the Almaz clipper ship, he made a long journey to the North American coast. His favorite marine images appear in many of his creations.
Such, for example, is the theme of the “blue ocean-sea” in the opera Sadko. Literally in a few sounds, the author conveys the hidden power of the ocean, and this motif pervades the entire opera.

Rimsky-Korsakov. Introduction to the opera "Sadko".

Another favorite theme of musical works about nature is sunrise. Here, two of the most famous morning themes immediately come to mind, something in common with each other. Each in its own way accurately conveys the awakening of nature. These are the romantic "Morning" by E. Grieg and the solemn "Dawn on the Moscow River" by M. P. Mussorgsky.
Mussorgsky's dawn begins with a shepherd's melody, the ringing of bells seems to be woven into the growing orchestral sound, and the sun rises higher and higher above the river, covering the water with golden ripples.

Mussorgsky. "Dawn on the Moscow River".

Among the musical works about nature, Saint-Saens' "great zoological fantasy" for a chamber ensemble stands apart. The frivolity of the idea determined the fate of the work: "Carnival", the score of which Saint-Saens even forbade to publish during his lifetime, was fully performed only in the circle of the composer's friends. The only number of the cycle published and performed publicly during the life of Saint-Saens is the famous "Swan", which in 1907 became a masterpiece of ballet art performed by the great Anna Pavlova.

Saint-Saens. "Swan"

Haydn, like his predecessor, makes extensive use of the possibilities of various instruments to convey the sounds of nature, such as a summer thunderstorm, the chirping of grasshoppers and a frog choir. Haydn's musical works about nature are associated with people's lives - they are almost always present in his "pictures". So, for example, in the finale of the 103rd symphony, we seem to be in the forest and hear the signals of the hunters, for the image of which the composer resorts to a well-known means - the golden move of the horns. Listen:

Haydn. Symphony No. 103, finale.

The text is compiled from various sources.

Svetlana Lukyanenko
Consultation "Nature in music, music in nature"

Consultation "Nature in music, music in nature"

But what is music? Music is an art form. The means of conveying mood and feeling in music are specially organized sounds. The main elements and expressive means of music are: melody, rhythm, meter, tempo, dynamics, timbre, harmony, instrumentation and others.

Music is a very good means of educating a child's artistic taste, it can influence mood, and there is even a special music therapy in psychiatry. With the help of music, you can even influence a person's health: when a person hears fast music, his pulse quickens, his blood pressure rises, he begins to move and think faster.

Music is usually divided into genres and types. Musical works of each genre and type are usually easy to distinguish from each other due to the specific musical properties of each.

But what is nature? An interesting and exciting question. At school in elementary grades, we once studied such a subject - natural history. Nature is a living organism that is born, develops, creates and creates, and then dies, and what it has created over millions of years either flourishes further in other conditions or dies with it.

Nature is the outer world in which we live; this world is subject to the laws unchanged for millions of years. Nature is primary, it cannot be created by man and we must take it for granted.

In a narrower sense, the word nature means the essence of something - the nature of feelings, for example.

The sounds of nature served as the basis for the creation of many musical works. Nature is powerful in music.

Music was already with ancient people. Primitive people sought to study the sounds of the world around them, they helped them navigate, learn about danger, and hunt. Observing the objects and phenomena of nature, they created the first musical instruments - a drum, a harp, a flute.

Musicians have always learned from nature. Even the sounds of the bell, which are heard on church holidays, sound due to the fact that the bell was created in the likeness of a bell flower.

Great musicians also learned from nature: Tchaikovsky did not leave the forest when he wrote children's songs about nature and the cycle “The Seasons”. The forest suggested to him the mood and motives of the piece of music.

The list of musical works about nature is long and varied. Here are just a few works on the theme of spring:

I. Haydn. Seasons, part 1

F. Schubert. Spring Dream

J. Bizet. Pastoral

G. Sviridov. Spring cantata

A. Vivaldi "Spring" from the cycle "The Seasons"

W. A. Mozart "The Coming of Spring" (song)

R. Schumann "Spring" symphony

E. Grieg "In the Spring" (piano piece)

N. A. Rimsky-Korsakov "The Snow Maiden" (spring tale)

P. I. Tchaikovsky "That was in early spring"

S. V. Rachmaninov "Spring Waters"

I. O. Dunayevsky "Rumbling streams"

Astor Piazzolla. "Spring" (from "The Four Seasons in Buenos Aires")

I. Strauss. Spring (Frhling)

I. Stravinsky "The Rite of Spring"

G. Sviridov "Spring and the sorcerer"

D. Kabalevsky. Symphonic poem "Spring".

S. V. Rakhmaninov. "Spring" - cantata for baritone, choir and orchestra.

And so it can go on for a long time.

It should be noted that the composers perceived and reflected the images of nature in their works in different ways:

b) Pantheistic perception of nature - N. A. Rimsky-Korsakov, G. Mahler;

c) Romantic perception of nature as a reflection of the inner world of man;

Consider the "spring" plays from the cycle "The Seasons" by P. I. Tchaikovsky.

"The Seasons" by Tchaikovsky is a kind of musical diary of the composer, capturing episodes of life, meetings and pictures of nature dear to his heart. This cycle of 12 characteristic paintings for piano can be called an encyclopedia of Russian estate life of the 19th century, of the St. Petersburg city landscape. In his images Tchaikovsky captures the endless Russian expanses, and rural life, and paintings of St. Petersburg city landscapes, and scenes from the domestic musical life of Russian people of that time.

"FAIRS OF THE YEAR" by P. I. TCHAIKOVSKY

Composer Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky chose the genre of piano miniatures for his twelve months. But the piano alone can convey the colors of nature no worse than the choir and orchestra. Here is the spring jubilation of the lark, and the joyful awakening of the snowdrop, and the dreamy romance of the white nights, and the song of the boatman, swaying on the river waves, and the field work of the peasants, and dog hunting, and the alarmingly sad autumn fading of nature.

12 plays - 12 pictures from the Russian life of Tchaikovsky received epigraphs from the poems of Russian poets during the publication:

"At the stove." January:

"And peaceful bliss corner

Cloaked the night in darkness.

The fire goes out in the fireplace,

And the candle was lit. "

A. S. Pushkin

"Maslenitsa". February:

"Soon carnival is brisk

A wide feast will boil. "

P. A. Vyazemsky.

"Song of the Lark". March:

"The field is shaking with flowers,

Waves of light are pouring in the sky.

spring larks singing

The blue abysses are full

A. N. Maikov

"Snowdrop". April:

"Dove clean

Snowdrop: flower,

And near the see-through

Last snow.

Last tears

About the grief of the past

And the first dreams

About other happiness. "

A. N. Maikov

"White Nights". May:

"What a night! What bliss is on everything!

Thank you, native midnight land!

From the realm of ice, from the realm of blizzards and snow

How fresh and clean your May flies out!

"Barcarolle". June:

"Let's go to the shore, there are waves

Our feet will kiss,

Stars with mysterious sadness

They will shine over us

A. N. Pleshcheev

"Song of the mower". July:

"Shut up, shoulder. Swing your arm!

You smell in the face, Wind from noon!

A. V. Koltsov

"Harvest". August:

"People families

Started to reap

Mow at the root

Rye high!

In shocks frequent

Sheaves are stacked.

From wagons all night

Music hides. "

A. V. Koltsov

"Hunting". September:

"It's time, it's time! The horns blow:

Psari in hunting gear

Than the world is sitting on horseback;

Greyhounds jump on packs. "

A. S. Pushkin

"Autumn Song". October:

Autumn, our poor garden crumbles,

The leaves are yellow in the wind. "

A. K. Tolstoy

"On a trio". November:

"Do not look longingly at the road

And do not rush after the three

And sad anxiety in my heart

Shut it down forever. "

N. A. Nekrasov

"Christmas". December:

Once a Epiphany Eve

The girls guessed

Behind the gate slipper

They took it off their feet and threw it. "

V. A. Zhukovsky

"Song of the Lark". March.

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The lark is a field bird, which in Russia is revered as a spring songbird. Her singing is traditionally associated with the arrival of spring, the awakening of all nature from hibernation, the beginning of a new life. The picture of the spring Russian landscape is drawn with very simple, but expressive means. The whole music is based on two themes: a melodic lyrical melody with a modest chordal accompaniment, and a second, related to it, but with big ups and wide breathing. In the organic interweaving of these two themes and various shades of mood - dreamy-sad and light - lies the endearing charm of the whole play. Both themes have elements that are reminiscent of the trills of the lark's spring song. The first theme creates a kind of frame for a more detailed second theme. The piece is concluded by the fading trills of the lark.

April. "Snowdrop"

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"CARNIVAL OF THE ANIMALS" by C. SAINT-SAENS

Camille Saint-Saens Among the musical works about nature, Saint-Saens' "great zoological fantasy" for chamber ensemble stands apart.

There are 13 parts in the cycle, describing different animals, and the final part, which combines all the numbers into a single piece. It's funny that the composer also included beginner pianists diligently playing scales among the animals.

No. 1, "Introduction and the Royal March of the Lion", has two sections. The first one immediately sets you in a comic mood, the second section contains the most trivial march turns, rhythmic and melodic

No. 2, Hens and Roosters, is based on onomatopoeia favored by French harpsichordists of the late 17th and first half of the 18th centuries. Saint-Saens has a piano in common (the pianist plays with one right hand) and two violins, which are later joined by a viola and a clarinet.

In No. 3, “Koulans are fast animals

No. 4, "Turtles", contrasting with the previous

No. 5, "The Elephant", uses a similar parodic device. Here the piano accompanies the double bass solo: the lowest instrument of the orchestra, heavy and inactive.

"Elephant" (Audio and video application)

In No. 6, "Kangaroo", exotic Australian animals are jumping in staccato chords.

No. 7, Aquarium, paints a silent underwater world. Iridescent passages flow smoothly.

No. 8, "The Character with Long Ears", Two violins now play instead of two pianos, and their free-tempo jumps for huge intervals imitate the cry of a donkey.

No. 9, "The Cuckoo in the Deep of the Woods", is again based on onomatopoeia, but in a completely different way.

In No. 10, The Bird House, another wooden instrument is the soloist - a flute, as if performing a virtuoso concerto, accompanied by strings. Her graceful chirping merges with the sonorous trills of two pianos.

No. 11, "Pianists",

No. 12, "Fossils", another musical parody

No. 13, "The Swan", the only serious number in this comic suite, paints a bright ideal. The amazingly beautiful melodies of the cello, supported by the smooth swaying accompaniment of two pianos, contain the most characteristic features of the composer's style.

No. 14, Extended Finale, uses all the instruments, up to the hitherto silent piccolo flute, and some themes of previous numbers, which gives a certain integrity to the motley alternation of diverse images. The opening theme of the Introduction, which opens the Finale, serves as a frame. Another brisk cancan sounds like a refrain, and between its repetitions already familiar characters return: kulans rush, hens cackle, kangaroos jump, a donkey screams.

"Swan" (audio and video application)

For a hundred years, The Swan has been the most popular play by Saint-Saens. His arrangements have been made for almost all existing instruments, vocal adaptations of "Swan - Above the Water", "Lake of Dreams" and even "Mother Cabrini, Saint of the 20th Century". The most famous ballet number is The Dying Swan, composed to this music by the famous Russian choreographer Mikhail Fokin for Anna Pavlova, one of the best ballerinas of the early 20th century.

And in conclusion, I would like to note that all writers, composers, artists, as convinced connoisseurs of true beauty, prove that the influence of man on nature should not be detrimental to her, because every meeting with nature is a meeting with beauty, a touch of mystery .

To love nature means not only to enjoy it, but also to take good care of it.

Man is one with nature. He cannot exist without her. The main task of man is to preserve and increase its wealth. And at the moment, nature is in great need of care.

By embodying nature, music can make a person think about her fate.

Nature in music, music in nature. Article.

Zabelina Svetlana Alexandrovna, musical director.
Place of work: MBDOU "Kindergarten "Birch", Tambov.

Description of the material. I offer you an article about the image of nature in music. What an ocean of sounds surrounds us: the singing of birds, the rustle of leaves, the sound of rain, the roar of waves. Music can depict all these sound phenomena of nature, and we, the listeners, can represent them. This material will be useful to music directors, educators, teachers of preschool institutions as a consultation.

The sounding world around us constantly, especially in nature, sets unique tasks for our hearing. What does it sound like? Where does it sound? How does it sound? Hear music in nature, listen to the music of rain, wind, the rustle of leaves, the surf, determine whether it is loud, fast or barely audible, flowing. Such observations in nature enrich the musical and auditory experience of the child, provide the necessary assistance in the perception of musical works with elements of representation. Figurativeness in music, prompted by the sound fabric of nature, is illustrated by remarkable natural phenomena.

Listen: music around. She is in everything - in nature itself,
And for countless melodies, she herself gives rise to sound.
She is served by the wind, the splashing of the waves, the peals of thunder, the ringing of drops,
Birds incessant trills among the green silence.
And woodpecker shot, and train whistles, barely audible in a nap,

And the downpour is a song without words, all on the same cheerful note.
And the crunch of snow, and the crackle of a fire!
And the metallic singing and the sound of saws and axes!
And the wires of the steppe buzz!
... That's why sometimes it seems in the concert hall,
What did they tell us about the sun, about how water splashes,
How the wind rustles the foliage, how, with a creak, the firs swayed ...
M. Evensen

What an ocean of sounds surrounds us! The singing of birds and the rustle of trees, the sound of the wind and the rustle of rain, the rumble of thunder, the roar of the waves ...
Music can depict all these sound phenomena of nature, and we, the listeners, can represent. How does music "depict the sounds of nature"?
One of the brightest and most majestic musical pictures created by Beethoven. In the fourth part of his symphony (“Pastoral”), the composer “painted” a picture of a summer thunderstorm with sounds. (This part is called "Thunderstorm"). Listening to the mighty sounds of an intensifying downpour, the frequent peals of thunder, the howling of the wind depicted in music, we imagine a summer thunderstorm.
The methods of musical representation used by the composer are of two kinds. As an example, we can cite the fabulous work of Lyadov "Kikimora", "Magic Lake", which fascinates with its music not only children, but also adults.
Lyadov wrote: "Give me a fairy tale, a dragon, a mermaid, a goblin, give me something, only then I am happy." The composer prefaced his musical fairy tale with a literary text borrowed from folk tales. “Kikimora lives, grows with a magician in the stone mountains. From morning to evening, the cat-Bayun amuses Kikimora, tells overseas tales. From evening until broad daylight, Kikimora is rocked in a crystal cradle. Kikimora grows up. She keeps evil on her mind for all the people honest. When you read these lines, the imagination begins to draw both a gloomy landscape “at the magician in the stone mountains”, and a fluffy cat-Bayun, and the flickering in the moonlight of the “crystal cradle”.
Lyadov masterfully uses the orchestra to create a mysterious landscape: the low register of wind instruments and cello with double basses - to depict stone mountains sunk in the darkness of the night, and the transparent, bright high sound of flutes, violins - to depict a "crystal cradle" and the twinkling of night stars. The fabulousness of the distant kingdom is depicted by the cello and double bass, the disturbing roar of the timpani creates an atmosphere of mystery, leads to a mysterious country. Unexpectedly, a short, poisonous, sharp theme of Kikimora breaks into this music. Then, in a high transparent register, the magical, heavenly sounds of the celesta and flute appear, like the ringing of a “crystal cradle”. The whole sonority of the orchestra seems to be highlighted. The music seems to elevate us from the darkness of the stone mountains to a transparent sky with a cold mysterious twinkling of distant stars.
The musical landscape of the "Magic Lake" resembles a watercolor. The same light transparent paints. Music breathes peace and quiet. About the landscape depicted in the play, Lyadov said: “This is how it was with the lake. I knew one such - well, a simple, forest Russian lake, and in its invisibility and silence, it is especially beautiful. One had to feel how many lives and how many changes in colors, chiaroscuro, air took place in a constantly changing silence and in seeming stillness!
The sounding forest silence and the splash of a hidden lake are heard in the music.
The creative imagination of the composer Rimsky-Korsakov was awakened by Pushkin's The Tale of Tsar Saltan. There are such extraordinary episodes in it that "neither in a fairy tale to say, nor to describe with a pen!" And only music was able to recreate the wonderful world of Pushkin's fairy tale. The composer described these miracles in the sound pictures of the symphonic picture "Three Miracles". We will vividly imagine the magical city of Ledenets with towers and gardens, and in it - the Squirrel, who “nibbles on a nut in front of everyone”, the beautiful Swan Princess and mighty heroes. As if we really hear and see a picture of the sea in front of us - calm and stormily heaving, bright blue and gloomy gray.
It is necessary to pay attention to the author's definition - "picture". It is borrowed from the fine arts - painting. In the music depicting a sea storm, one can hear the roar of the waves, howling and whistling of the wind.
One of the most favorite methods of representation in music is the imitation of the voices of birds. We hear the wit of the "trio" of a nightingale, a cuckoo and a quail in the "stream scene" - 2 parts of Beethoven's Pastoral Symphony. Bird voices are heard in the pieces for harpsichord "Calling of Birds", "Cuckoo", in the piano piece "Song of the Lark" from P. I. Tchaikovsky's cycle "The Seasons", in the prologue of Rimsky-Korsakov's opera "The Snow Maiden" and in many other works. Imitation of the sounds and voices of Nature is the most common method of visualization in music.
Another technique exists for depicting not sounds, but the movements of people, birds, animals. Drawing a bird, a cat, a duck and other characters in music, the composer depicted their characteristic movements, habits, and so skillfully that one can personally imagine each of them in motion: a flying bird, a crouching cat, a jumping wolf. Here rhythm and tempo became the main visual means.
After all, the movements of any living being occur in a certain rhythm and tempo, and they can be very accurately reflected in music. In addition, the nature of the movements is different: smooth, flying, sliding, or, conversely, sharp, clumsy. The musical language sensitively responds to this as well.
Remarkable in this respect is the cycle “The Seasons” by P.I. Harvest”, October - “Autumn Song”.
Each piece of music is preceded by an epigraph. For example: “A blue, pure, magical flower is about a snowdrop (“April”).
Harmony and timbres of musical instruments play an important visual role in music. The gift to depict in music the movements of people, animals, birds, natural phenomena is not given to every composer. Beethoven, Mussorgsky, Prokofiev, Tchaikovsky were able to skillfully turn the visible into the audible. They created unique masterpieces that will survive the centuries.

Pictures of the change of seasons, the rustling of leaves, bird voices, the splashing of waves, the murmur of a stream, thunderstorms - all this can be conveyed in music. Many famous people were able to do this brilliantly: their musical works about nature have become classics of the musical landscape.

Natural phenomena, musical sketches of flora and fauna appear in instrumental and piano works, vocal and choral compositions, and sometimes even in the form of program cycles.

"The Seasons" A. Vivaldi

Antonio Vivaldi

Vivaldi's four three-movement violin concertos, dedicated to the seasons, are without a doubt the most famous musical works about the nature of the Baroque era. Poetic sonnets for the concertos are believed to have been written by the composer himself and express the musical meaning of each movement.

Vivaldi conveys with his music thunder peals, and the sound of rain, and the rustle of leaves, and bird trills, and dog barking, and the howling of the wind, and even the silence of an autumn night. Many of the composer's remarks in the score directly indicate one or another natural phenomenon that should be depicted.

Vivaldi "The Seasons" - "Winter"

"The Seasons" by J. Haydn

Joseph Haydn

The monumental oratorio "The Seasons" was a kind of result of the composer's creative activity and became a true masterpiece of classicism in music.

Four seasons sequentially appear before the listener in 44 scenes. The heroes of the oratorio are villagers (peasants, hunters). They know how to work and have fun, they have no time to indulge in despondency. People here are part of nature, they are involved in its annual cycle.

In Haydn, musical works about nature are associated with people's lives - they are almost always present in his "pictures". So, for example, in the finale of the 103rd symphony, we seem to be in the forest and hear the signals of the hunters, for the image of which the composer resorts to a well-known means -. Listen:

Haydn Symphony No. 103 – finale

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The Four Seasons by P. I. Tchaikovsky

The composer chose for his twelve months the genre of piano miniatures. But the piano alone can convey the colors of nature no worse than the choir and orchestra.

Here is the spring jubilation of the lark, and the joyful awakening of the snowdrop, and the dreamy romance of the white nights, and the song of the boatman, swaying on the river waves, and the field work of the peasants, and dog hunting, and the alarmingly sad autumn fading of nature.

Tchaikovsky "The Seasons" - March - "Song of the Lark"

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Carnival of the Animals by C. Saint-Saens

The instrumental composition is original: in addition to strings and several wind instruments, it includes two pianos, a celesta and such a rare instrument in our time as a glass harmonica.

The comical nature of "Carnival" is emphasized by numerous musical allusions and quotes. For example, "The Turtles" perform Offenbach's cancan, only several times slower, and the double bass in "Elephant" develops the theme of Berlioz's "Ballet of the Sylphs".

Saint-Saens "Carnival of the Animals" - Swan

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Sea element N. A. Rimsky-Korsakov

The Russian composer knew firsthand about the sea. As a midshipman, and then as a midshipman on the Almaz clipper ship, he made a long journey to the North American coast. His favorite marine images appear in many of his creations.

Such, for example, is the theme of the “blue ocean-sea” in the opera Sadko. Literally in a few sounds, the author conveys the hidden power of the ocean, and this motif pervades the entire opera.

The sea reigns both in the symphonic musical picture "Sadko" and in the first part of the suite "Scheherazade" - "The Sea and Sinbad's Ship", in which the calm is replaced by a storm.

Rimsky-Korsakov "Sadko" - intro "Ocean-sea blue"

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“The east was covered with a ruddy dawn…”

Another favorite theme of musical works about nature is the sunrise. Here, two of the most famous morning themes immediately come to mind, something in common with each other. Each in its own way accurately conveys the awakening of nature. These are the romantic "Morning" by E. Grieg and the solemn "Dawn on the Moscow River" by M. P. Mussorgsky.

In Grieg, the imitation of a shepherd's horn is picked up by stringed instruments, and then by the entire orchestra: the sun rises over the harsh fjords, and the murmur of a stream and the singing of birds are clearly heard in the music.

Mussorgsky's dawn also begins with a shepherd's melody, the ringing of bells seems to be woven into the growing orchestral sound, and the sun rises higher and higher above the river, covering the water with golden ripples.

Mussorgsky - "Khovanshchina" - introduction "Dawn on the Moscow River"

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It is almost impossible to list everything in which the theme of nature develops - this list will turn out to be too long. These include concertos by Vivaldi (The Nightingale, The Cuckoo, Night), The Bird Trio from Beethoven's 6th Symphony, Rimsky-Korsakov's Flight of the Bumblebee, Debussy's Goldfish, Spring and Autumn, and Winter the road" by Sviridov and many other musical pictures of nature.

“In the kingdom of Berendey. Poets and composers about nature»

Literary and musical composition

Goals: restoration of the natural connection of children with Russian nature, with the historical and cultural values of Russia; education in schoolchildren of a sense of patriotism, love for their native nature, poetry, music.
Equipment and decoration: the hall is decorated in Russian style, on the wall - the name of the holiday framed by Russian ornaments; posters with statements of Russian poets about nature, musical works about nature, presentations of portraits of poets and paintings of Russian nature, children in Russian costumes.

Event progress

Music sounds. Video clip "Happiness of the Russian land"

Lead 1.
"Motherland!" - we pronounce
And in the eyes of the pensive we have
Slowly swinging buckwheat
And the beam smokes at dawn.

Lead 2.
The river is probably remembered
Pure, transparent to the bottom,
And the earrings glow on the willow,
And the path is visible in the grass.

Lead 1.
"Motherland!" we say excitedly
We see endless distance before us.
This is our childhood, our youth.
That's all we call fate.
Motherland! Holy Fatherland!
Coppices, groves, shores,
The field of wheat is golden,
Blue stacks from the moon.
Sweet smell of cut hay
Conversation in the village in a singsong voice,
Where the star sat down on the shutter,
Almost reached the ground.
Motherland! Land of fathers and grandfathers!
We fell in love with these clovers
Having tasted spring freshness
From the edge of a clinking bucket.
It will hardly be forgotten
And forever remain holy ...
The land that was called the Motherland,

If necessary, we will protect with our hearts.

Lead 2 . What is homeland for a person? What does he consider his homeland? Country where you were born? The house where he lives? A birch at his native doorstep, the place where his ancestors lived?

Video clip "Where were you born"

Presenter 1 . Look around: what a wonderful, wonderful world surrounds us - forests, fields, seas, oceans, mountains, sky, sun, animals, birds. This is nature. Our life is inseparable from it. Nature feeds us, waters, clothes. She is generous and selfless. Our Russian nature, full of poetry and charm, touches and excites every person who loves his Motherland, has a beneficial effect on his soul.

Lead 2

The beauty of Russian nature is an inexhaustible source of inspiration for poets, artists, and composers. Many poems, paintings, musical works were born thanks to love for her.

Reader

Wave after wave

Into the immeasurable ocean...

Winter turned to spring

And the hurricane howls less often;

Ruthless time does not wait,

It is in a hurry for the term;

Fields and cornfields of the rich burden,

The whitening snow is gone

merry nature blossoms,

The dense forest turned green,

Greets noisily the morning of the year

Feathered birds thunder choir;

They sing a hymn to her

For the glory of god and father

And cherish the cherished song

The sadness of a sad singer.

beautiful blue sky,

Everywhere coolness and peace,

And generously golden sun

Nourishes the earth with warmth

Necessary, fertile;

From the impregnable height

Fragrant air flows

To the realm of light and spring.

Widely, with proud pride,

Leaving the old shores

Through the sown fields

A clear river flows

And everything is blooming, and everything is beautiful!

But where is winter, where is the trace of winter,

Where is the howl of a stormy blizzard,

Where is the sad gloom of grave darkness?

Winter has passed. Spring will pass

The golden summer will come

Nature is full of joy

Breathe better in peace.

But not for long; no, again

Furious, at will

Rebellious winds whistle,

And a whirlwind will spin in the field.

And the dense forest will rustle,

He will howl like a hungry wolf,

And from the heights of the desert mountains

Will blow cold autumn;

And again gloomy darkness

Will spread its cover of sadness

And the almighty winter

Dressed in a burial shroud -

Blooming meadow, green forest

And all the faded nature

And whiten the tops of the mountains,

And freeze the water;

And after marvelous beauty

Nature will be sad again;

So life: or May flowers,

Or a dead grave...

(“Spring” by N.A. Nekrasov)

Reader

Nature-music! I take care of you...

Without stopping, he sings his song

The whole world is about the life that he breathes,

And blessed is he who listens and hears.

Oh, how much he will know and understand

Having scouted the way to the sounding world of harmonies,

Misunderstood poems, unknown symphonies!

(Alexey Zhemchuzhnikov)

The song "Seasons" with a video clip

Lead 2

Spring. The sun shines brighter than in winter, it has become warmer, the snow has darkened and settled, streams have run, the day has increased, it has become longer, and the night is shorter, the spring sky becomes high and blue.

Lead 1.

In nature, it often happens that before the warming, the snow suddenly melts, and nature comes to life. This is told in the poem of the remarkable Russian poetFyodor Ivanovich Tyutchev , which surprisingly vividly painted such changes in the weather in spring, her struggle with winter.

Reader

"Winter is getting angry for a reason..."

Winter is getting angry
Her time has passed
Spring is knocking on the window
And drives from the yard.

And everything got busy
Everything forces Winter out -
And larks in the sky
The alarm has already been raised.

Winter is still busy
And grumbles at Spring.
She laughs in her eyes
And it only makes more noise...

And, capturing the snow,
Let go, run away
To a beautiful child...

Spring and grief is not enough:
Washed up in the snow
And only became blush
Against the enemy.

Reader

F. I. Tyutchev. "Spring waters" Videoclip. The artist is reading.

Snow is still whitening in the fields,

And the waters are already rustling in the spring -

They run and wake up the sleepy shore,

They run, and shine, and say ...

They say all over the place:

"Spring is coming, spring is coming,

We are messengers of young spring,

She sent us ahead!

Spring is coming, spring is coming

And quiet, warm May days

Ruddy, bright round dance

Crowds cheerfully for her! .. "

Presenter 1

Fragment of the puppet show

"With love for nature" - the chirping of birds.

Lead 2

A portrait of the poet is displayed on the screen.

Great Russian poetNikolay Alekseevich Nekrasov He was very fond of and widely used in his work folk tales, proverbs, riddles, songs, he knew his native Russian language well. To the title of his poem "Green Noise", the poet made the following note: "This is how people call the awakening of nature in spring."

Pictures of the forest - clip "There was a birch in the field"

Reader "Green Noise"

The Green Noise is coming,

Green Noise, spring noise!

Like drenched in milk

There are cherry orchards,

Quietly noisy;

Warmed by the warm sun

The merry ones make noise

pine forests,

And next to the new greenery

Babbling a new song

And the pale-leaved linden,

And a white birch

With a green braid!

A small reed makes noise,

Noisy cheerful maple ...

They make new noise

New spring...

Goes-buzzes, Green Noise,

Green Noise, spring noise!

Presenter 1

A portrait of the poet is displayed on the screen.

Afanasy Afanasyevich Fet- a refined lyricist, endowed with a genius talent. Many of his poems entered the golden fund of Russian poetry. Fet's works amaze with emotionality, bright mood, a peculiar transmission of shades of spiritual life, a subtle sense of nature, and the beauty of melodies. The poet strives to capture and sing the beautiful. His poems are about the beauty of the world, about the harmony of human feelings.

Among the early works are poems dedicated to the beauty of nature, the change of seasons.

Pictures of artists about spring. "Spring". Chopin.

Reader

"Spring"

The willow is all fluffy

Spread around;

Spring is fragrant again

She waved her wings.

The clouds are rushing about,

Illuminated with warmth

And again they ask to the soul

Captivating dreams.

Everywhere diverse

The eye is busy with the picture,

Noisy crowd idle

The people are happy about something

Some secret longing

The dream is inflamed

And over every soul

Spring is passing by.

Reader

Another May night

What a night! On everything what bliss!

Thank you, native midnight land!

From the realm of ice, from the realm of blizzards and snow

How fresh and clean your May flies!

What a night! All the stars to one

Warmly and meekly look into the soul again,

And in the air behind the song of the nightingale

Anxiety and love spread.

Birches are waiting. Their leaf is translucent

Shyly beckons and amuses the gaze.

They tremble. So maiden newlywed

And her dress is joyful and alien.

No, never more tender and incorporeal

Your face, O night, could not torment me!

Again I go to you with an involuntary song,

Involuntary - and the last, maybe.

Edvard Grieg "Morning"

Reader

This morning, this joyThis is the power of both day and light,This blue vaultIt's a scream and stringsThese flocks, these birds,This voice of the watersThese willows and birches

These drops are these tearsThis fluff is not a leaf,These mountains, these valleys,These midges, these bees,This tongue and whistle.

These dawns without eclipse,This sigh of the night village,This night without sleepThis haze and the heat of the bed,This fraction and these trills,It's all spring.

Leading

The Slavs considered themselves an integral part of nature, worshiping the sun.

Video clip and fragment from the film "The Snow Maiden". The same rite takes place on the stage - the staging of the episode.

Leading

Alexey NikolaevichPleshcheev, Ivan Savvich Nikitin, Ivan Alekseevich Bunin loved Russian nature. They dedicated their poems to her

Alexey Nikolaevich Pleshcheev

A portrait of the poet is displayed on the screen.

Reader

"Spring"

Again in the spring my window smelled,

And breathe more joyfully and freely ...

In the chest, the oppressive longing fell asleep,

A swarm of bright thoughts comes to replace her.

The snows have come down... The fetters of ice

Do not weigh the sparkling waves ...

And the plow is waiting for the distant, dumb

The fields of my native side.

To the fields! into the fields! familiar nature

Bashful beauty beckons to itself ...

To the fields! there is the song of the risen people

Free and powerful sounds.

Reader

"Spring" by A.N. Pleshcheev Clip "Symphony of Spring"

The snow is already melting, streams are running,

In the window it blew in the spring ...

The nightingales will soon whistle,

And the forest will be dressed in foliage!

clear blue sky,

The sun became warmer and brighter,

It's time for evil blizzards and storms

Again a long time passed.

And the heart is so strong in the chest

Knocking. As if waiting for something

As if happiness is ahead

And winter took care of!

All the faces look merry

"Spring!" - you read in every glance.

And he, how glad she is for the holiday,

Whose life is only hard work and sorrow.

But frisky children ringing laughter

And carefree birds singing

They tell me that the most

Nature loves renewal.

Reader

A portrait of the poet is displayed on the screen.

I. S. Nikitin "Admire: spring is coming"

Full, my steppe, sleep soundly:

Mother winters the kingdom has passed,

The tablecloth of the deserted path dries,

The snow is gone - both warm and light.

Wake up and wash yourself with dew

Show yourself in unobtrusive beauty

Cover your chest with ants,

As a bride, dress up in flowers.

Admire: spring is coming,

Cranes fly in a caravan

The day is drowning in bright gold,

And the streams roar along the ravines ...

Soon the guests will gather in you,

How many nests will be built - look!

What kind of sounds, for songs will pour

Day-to-day, from dawn to dusk!

A portrait of the poet is displayed on the screen.

Reader

I. A. Bunin "Large rain in the green forest ..."

Heavy rain in the green forest

Rumbled through the slender maples,

Through forest flowers...

Do you hear? - The song flows loudly,

Carefree resounds

Heavy rain in the green forest

Rumbled through the slender maples,

The sky is clear...

In every heart arises, -

And torments and captivates

Your image, Spring!

O golden hopes!

The groves are dark, dense

They deceived you...

You sounded a wondrous song -

And faded into the distance!

Presenter 1

The educational value of the poetry of Alexander Sergeevich Pushkin is enormous. No poet has created such wise and bright landscape lyrics. "Pushkin is an extraordinary phenomenon ... This is a Russian man in his development, as he may be in two hundred years." N. V. Gogol.

A portrait of the poet is displayed on the screen.

Reader

A. S. Pushkin. "Pursued by spring rays..." (from the novel "Eugene Onegin"

Chased by spring rays,

There is already snow from the surrounding mountains

Escaped by muddy streams

To flooded meadows.

Nature's clear smile

Through a dream meets the morning of the year;

The skies are shining blue.

Still transparent, forests

As if they are turning green.

Bee for tribute in the field

Flies from the wax cell.

The valleys dry and dazzle;

The herds are noisy, and the nightingale

Already sang in the silence of the nights.

Reader

How sad is your appearance to me,

Spring, spring! It's time for love!

What a languid excitement

In my soul, in my blood!

With what heavy tenderness

I enjoy the breath

In my face blowing spring

In the bosom of rural silence!

Or is pleasure alien to me,

And everyone who pleases, lives,

All that rejoices and glitters,

Brings boredom and languor

For a soul that has been dead for a long time,

And everything seems dark to me?

Presenter2

The poems of Sergei Alexandrovich Yesenin are a sincere confession of his romantic soul, which attracts, first of all, by the manifestation of the best human feelings. The attractive power of Yesenin's poetry lies precisely in this piercing sincerity.

A portrait of the poet is displayed on the screen.

Reader

"Bird cherry"

Fragrant bird cherry

Bloomed with spring

And golden branches

What curls, curled.

Honey dew all around

Slips down the bark

Spicy greens underneath

Shines in silver.

And next to the thawed patch,

In the grass, between the roots,

Runs, flows small

Silver stream.

Cherry fragrant,

Hanging out, standing

And the green is golden

Burning in the sun.

Brook with a thundering wave

All branches are covered

And insinuatingly under the steep

She sings songs.

Songs on the verses of S.A. Yesenin "Birch", "Bird cherry" sound.

Pictures depicting nature, churches, etc. are displayed on the screen. Against the background of music and when changing pictures, the children pronounce the text.

Student 1. The boundless expanse of fields. Spreading white-trunked birches. River floods. The steppe is an immense expanse. It's Russia.
Student 2. You are looking at the clear blue sky. You walk along forest paths. You sit by the cool river. It's Russia.
Student 1. The ancient walls of the Kremlin. Shine of domes over temples. Life's past. And this is Russia.
Student 2. Mother's hands. Her songs at your cradle. Fragrant bread at the festive table. This is also Russia.

Music and display of pictures are stopped.
Student 1. Our seas are deep,
Student 2. Our fields are wide,
Student 1. Abundant, dear,
Chorus. Hail, Russian land!