Features of the origin and development of musical criticism. "Disgusting abomination": how great composers were scolded by contemporaries

Stasov considered art and music criticism to be the main business of his life. From 1847 he systematically appeared in the press with articles on literature, art, and music. An encyclopedic figure, Stasov impressed with his versatility of interests (articles on Russian and foreign music, painting, sculpture, architecture, research and collecting works in the field of archeology, history, philology, folklore, etc.). Adhering to advanced democratic views, Stasov in his critical activity relied on the principles of the aesthetics of Russian revolutionary democrats - V.G. Belinsky, A.I. Herzen, H.G. Chernyshevsky. He considered realism and nationality to be the foundations of advanced modern art. Stasov fought against academic art, far from life, the official center of which in Russia was the St. Petersburg Empire Academy of Arts, for realistic art, for the democratization of art and life. A man of great erudition, having friendly relations with many leading artists, musicians, writers, Stasov was a mentor and adviser for a number of them, a defender against the attacks of reactionary official criticism.

Stasov's musical-critical activity, which began in 1847 ("Musical Review" in "Notes of the Fatherland"), embraces more than half a century and is a vivid and vivid reflection of the history of our music during this period of time.

Having begun in a deaf and sad time of Russian life in general and Russian art in particular, it continued in an era of awakening and a remarkable upsurge. artistic creativity, education of a young Russian music school, its struggle with the routine and its gradual recognition not only here in Russia, but also in the West.

In countless magazine and newspaper articles, Stasov responded to every somewhat remarkable event in the life of our new music school, ardently and convincingly interpreting the meaning of new works, fiercely repelling the attacks of opponents of the new direction.

Not being a real specialist musician (composer or theorist), but having received a general musical education, which he expanded and deepened by independent studies and acquaintance with outstanding works Western art(not only new, but also old - old Italians, Bach, etc.), Stasov went little into a specially technical analysis of the formal side of the musical works being analyzed, but with all the more fervor defended their aesthetic and historical significance.

Guided by a fiery love for his native art and its best figures, a natural critical flair, a clear awareness of the historical necessity of the national direction of art and an unshakable faith in its final triumph, Stasov could sometimes go too far in expressing his enthusiastic passion, but relatively rarely made mistakes in general. evaluation of everything significant, talented and original.

By this he connected his name with the history of our national music in the second half of the 19th century.

In terms of sincerity of conviction, disinterested enthusiasm, vehemence of presentation and feverish energy, Stasov stands completely apart not only among our music critics, but also among European ones.

In this respect, he somewhat resembles Belinsky, leaving aside, of course, any comparison of their literary talents and significance.

It is to Stasov's great merit before Russian art that his unobtrusive work as a friend and adviser of our composers should be placed (Starting with Serov, whose friend Stasov was for a long series of years, and ending with representatives of the young Russian school - Mussorgsky, Rimsky-Korsakov, Cui, Glazunov, etc.), who discussed with them their artistic intentions, details of the script and libretto, fussed over their personal affairs and contributed to the perpetuation of their memory after their death (the biography of Glinka, for a long time the only one we have, the biographies of Mussorgsky and our other composers, the publication of their letters, various memoirs and biographical materials, etc.). Stasov did a lot as a historian of music (Russian and European).

His articles and brochures are devoted to European art: "L" "abbe Santini et sa collection musicale a Rome" (Florence, 1854; Russian translation in the "Library for Reading", for 1852), a lengthy description of the autographs of foreign musicians belonging to the Imperial Public Library ("Domestic Notes", 1856), "Liszt, Schumann and Berlioz in Russia" ("Severny Vestnik", 1889, Nos. 7 and 8; an extract from here "Liszt in Russia" was printed with some additions to " Russian Musical Newspaper" 1896, Nos. 8--9), "Letters of a great man" (Fr. Liszt, "Northern Herald", 1893), "New Biography of Liszt" ("Northern Herald", 1894 ) and others. Articles on the history of Russian music: "What is beautiful demestvennaya singing" ("Proceedings of the Imperial Archaeological Society", 1863, vol. V), a description of Glinka's manuscripts ("Report of the Imperial Public Library for 1857") , a number of articles in the III volume of his works, including: "Our music over the past 25 years" ("Bulletin of Europe", 1883, No. 10), "Brakes of Russian art" (ibid., 1885, Nos. 5--6 ) and etc.; biographical essay "N.A. Rimsky-Korsakov" ("Northern Herald", 1899, No. 12), "German organs among Russian amateurs" ("Historical Bulletin", 1890, No. 11), "In memory of M.I. Glinka" ("Historical Bulletin", 1892, No. 11, etc.), "Ruslan and Lyudmila" by M.I. Glinka, on the 50th anniversary of the opera "(" Yearbook of the Imperial Theaters "1891--92 and ed.), "Glinka's Assistant" (Baron F.A. Rahl; "Russian Antiquity", 1893, No. 11; about him " Yearbook of the Imperial Theatres", 1892--93), biographical sketch by Ts.A. Cui ("Artist", 1894, No. 2); biographical sketch by M.A. Belyaev ("Russian Musical Newspaper", 1895, No. 2), "Russian and foreign operas performed at the Imperial theaters in Russia in the 18th and 19th centuries" ("Russian Musical Newspaper", 1898, nos. 1, 2, 3, etc.), "Composition attributed to Bortnyansky" (project for printing hook singing ; in the "Russian Musical Newspaper", 1900, No. 47), etc. Stasov's editions of the letters of Glinka, Dargomyzhsky, Serov, Borodin, Mussorgsky, Prince Odoevsky, Liszt, etc., are of great importance. The collection of materials for the history of the Russian church singing, compiled by Stasov in the late 50s and handed over by him to the famous musical archaeologist DV Razumovsky, who used it for his fundamental work on church singing in Russia.

Chapter I Music criticism in the system of a holistic cultural model.

§ 1. Cross axiology of modern culture and musical criticism.

§2. Axiology "inside" musical criticism system and process).

§3. Dialectic of objective and subjective.

§4. Situation artistic perception intramusical aspect).

Chapter II. Musical criticism as a type of information and as part of information processes.

§1. informatization processes.

§2. Censorship, propaganda and music criticism.

§3. Musical criticism as a kind of information.

§4. Information environment.

§5. Relationship between music criticism and journalism trends.

§6. Regional aspect.

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Introduction to the thesis (part of the abstract) on the topic "Modern musical criticism and its influence on national culture"

Appeal to the analysis of the phenomenon of music criticism is due today to the objective need to understand the many problems of its role in the difficult and ambiguous processes of intensive development of modern national culture.

In the conditions of recent decades, a fundamental renewal of all spheres of life is taking place, associated with the transition of society to the information phase1. Accordingly, the need inevitably arises for new approaches to various phenomena that have replenished culture, in their other assessments, and in this the role of musical criticism as part of art criticism can hardly be overestimated, especially since criticism, as a kind of information carrier and as one of the forms of journalism, acquires in today the quality of a mouthpiece of unprecedented power, addressed to a huge audience.

Undoubtedly, music criticism continues to fulfill the traditional tasks given to it. It forms aesthetic and artistic and creative tastes, preferences and standards, determines the value-semantic aspects, systematizes the existing experience of musical art perception in its own way. At the same time in modern conditions its scope is significantly expanding: thus, the information-communicative and value-regulatory functions of musical criticism are implemented in a new way, its socio-cultural mission as an integrator of the processes of musical culture is enhanced.

In turn, criticism itself experiences the positive and negative impacts of the socio-cultural context, which make it necessary to improve its content, artistic, creative and other

1 In addition to industrial, modern science distinguishes two phases in the development of society - post-industrial and informational, which A. Parkhomchuk writes about in his work "Information Society"

M., 1998). sides. Under the influence of many cultural, historical, economic and political processes of transformation of society, musical criticism, as an organic element of its functioning, sensitively captures all social changes and reacts to them, changing internally and giving rise to new modified forms of critical expression and new value orientations.

In connection with the foregoing, there is an urgent need to comprehend the features of the functioning of musical criticism, to identify the internal dynamic conditions of its further development, patterns of generation of new trends by the modern cultural process, which determines the relevance of posing this topic.

It is important to establish what cultural and ideological result modern music criticism has and how it affects the development of culture. This kind of approach to the interpretation of musical criticism as one of the forms of existence of culture has its own justifications: firstly, the concept of musical criticism, often associated only with its very products (articles, notes, essays belong to it), in the cultural aspect reveals a much larger number of meanings, which, of course, expands an adequate assessment of the phenomenon under consideration, functioning in the conditions of the new time in the changed system of modern socioculture; secondly, a broad interpretation of the concept of musical criticism provides grounds for analyzing the essence and specifics of inclusion in sociocultures2

Without going into the analysis of the existing definitions of the concept of “culture” in this work (according to the “Encyclopedic Dictionary of Cultural Studies”, their number is estimated at more than one hundred definitions), we note that for the purposes of our work, it is important to interpret culture, according to which it “acts as a concentrated , the organized experience of mankind, as the basis for understanding, comprehension, decision-making, as a reflection of any creativity, and finally, as the basis for consensus, integration of any community. The extremely valuable idea of ​​Yu.Lotman about the information purpose of culture can also contribute to the strengthening of the dissertation provisions. Culture, the scientist writes, "at the present time could be given a more generalized definition: the totality of all non-hereditary information, ways of organizing and storing it." At the same time, the researcher clarifies that "information is not an optional feature, but one of the main conditions for the existence of mankind" . ny process of a wide audience, not just as a recipient, but in a new capacity as a subject of co-creation. It is logical to represent this side of the phenomenon under study from the standpoint of the situation of artistic perception, which makes it possible to reveal the psychological foundations of this art, as well as to highlight the general features that characterize the mechanism of musical criticism; thirdly, culturological analysis allows us to present musical criticism as a special phenomenon in which all levels of social consciousness are integrated, the leading oppositions of the system of modern culture (elite and mass, scientific and popular, science and art, musicology and journalism and

Thanks to music criticism in modern culture, a special information space is being formed, which becomes a powerful means of mass transmission of information about music and in which the multi-genre, multi-darkness, multi-faceted nature of music criticism finds its place and manifests itself more than ever before - a special quality of its polystylistics, in demand and objectively determined by the conditions of time. This process is a dialogue within culture, addressed to the mass consciousness, the center of which is the evaluation factor.

These characteristics of music criticism are the most important preconditions for overcoming the unambiguous, private scientific attitude to music criticism as some self-valuable local education.

Thanks to system analysis, it is possible to imagine the action of music criticism as a kind of spiral, the “unwinding” of which involves various forms of functioning of the cultural system (for example, mass culture and academic culture, trends in the commercialization of art and creativity, public opinion and qualified assessment). This spiral makes it possible to reveal the local meaning of each such form. And the constant component of different levels of consideration of criticism - the evaluation factor - becomes in this system a kind of "central element" to which all its parameters are drawn. In addition, the consideration of this model is based on the idea of ​​integrating the scientific, literary and journalistic contexts in which musical criticism is simultaneously implemented.

All this leads to the conclusion that music criticism can be understood both in a narrow sense - as a product of material-critical statements, and in a broad sense - as a special process, which is an organic connection between the product of music criticism and the integral technology of its creation and distribution. which ensures the full functioning of music criticism in the socio-cultural space.

In addition, we have the opportunity to find in the analysis of musical criticism answers to the question of its cultural-creating essence and the possibilities of increasing its significance and artistic quality.

Of particular importance is also the regional aspect, which implies consideration of the functioning of music criticism not only in the space of Russian culture and society as a whole, but also within the Russian periphery. We see the expediency of this aspect of considering musical criticism in that it allows us to even more reveal the emerging general trends due to the new quality of their projection from the radius of capital cities to the radius of the province. The nature of this switch is due to the centrifugal phenomena noted today, which concern all spheres of social and cultural life, which also means the emergence of an extensive problem field for finding one's own solutions in peripheral conditions.

The object of the study is domestic musical criticism in the context of the musical culture of Russia in recent decades - mainly magazine and newspaper periodicals of central and regional publications.

The subject of the research is the functioning of musical criticism in terms of the transformational dynamics of its development and influence on modern national culture.

The purpose of the work is to scientifically comprehend the phenomenon of domestic musical criticism as one of the forms of self-realization of culture in the information society.

The objectives of the study are determined by its purpose and lie in line with, first of all, musicological, as well as cultural understanding of the problems of music criticism:

1. Reveal the specifics of musical criticism as a historically established socio-cultural form;

2. To comprehend the ethical essence of musical criticism as an important mechanism for the formation and regulation of the evaluation factor;

3. Determine the value of the factor of creativity in musical and journalistic activity, in particular, the effect of musical criticism in terms of rhetoric;

4. Reveal the new information qualities of music criticism, as well as the peculiarity of the information environment in which it operates;

5. Show the features of the functioning of music criticism in the conditions of the Russian periphery (in particular, in Voronezh).

Research hypothesis

The research hypothesis is based on the fact that the full disclosure of the possibilities of musical criticism depends on the realization of the potential of creativity, which, probably, should become an artifact that "reconciles" and synthesizes scientific knowledge and mass perception. The effectiveness of its identification depends on the personal approach of the critic, which resolves at the individual level the contradictions between the academic promises of his knowledge and the mass requests of readers.

It is assumed that the effectiveness and dynamics of music criticism in the conditions of the periphery is not a simple reflection or duplication of metropolitan trends, some circles diverging from the center.

The degree of development of the research problem

In processes artistic life and scientific research, music criticism occupies a very unequal position. If the practice of critical utterance has long existed as an element of musical culture, inextricably linked with creativity and performance, and has its own considerable, almost two hundred year history,3 then the field of its study - although it occupies many researchers - still retains many white spots and clearly does not achieve the necessary adequacy in terms of relation to the meaning of the phenomenon itself, which, of course, becomes a requirement of today. Yes, and in comparison with their close "neighbors" in science - with literary criticism, journalism, theater criticism - the study of the problems of musical criticism is clearly losing. Especially against the background of fundamental studies of the historical and panoramic plan, devoted to art criticism. (Even individual examples are indicative in this sense: History of Russian criticism. In two volumes - M., JL, 1958; History of Russian journalism of the ХУ111-Х1Х centuries - M., 1973; V.I. Kuleshov. History of Russian theater criticism. In three volumes - JL, 1981). Probably, it is precisely this chronological "delay" of comprehension from the very research

3 Speaking about the birth of music criticism, the modern researcher of these problems T. Kurysheva points to the eighteenth century, which, in her opinion, represents the milestone when the needs of culture, associated with the complication of the artistic process, made art criticism an independent kind creative activity. Then, she writes, "professional music criticism emerged from the public, from the listener (educated, thinking, including the musicians themselves").

Interesting, however, is the position on this issue of the well-known sociologist V. Konev, who expresses a slightly different view of the epistemology of the phenomenon art criticism. He considers the process of isolating criticism into an independent field of activity as a result not of the general state of culture and the public, but the result of the "splitting" of the artist, the gradual separation, as he writes, of "the reflective artist into an independent role." Moreover, he notes that in the 18th century in Russia, the artist and the critic did not yet differ, which means that the history of criticism, in his opinion, is limited to lesser chronological framework. my phenomenon and explains the features of the genesis of scientific knowledge about musical criticism4.

In the conditions of modern times 5 - when the multiplicity and ambiguity of the processes taking place in musical life especially need timely assessment, and assessment - in "self-assessment" and scientific understanding and regulation - the problem of studying music criticism becomes even more obvious. “In today's era of rapid development of the mass media, when the dissemination and propaganda of artistic information have acquired a total mass character, criticism becomes a powerful and independently existing factor,” researchers noted the beginning of this trend back in the 80s, “a kind of institution not only of mass replicating ideas and assessments, but acts as a powerful force that has a huge impact on the very nature of the further development and modification of some essential features of artistic culture, on the emergence of new types of artistic activity and a more direct and direct correlation artistic thinking with the entire sphere of public consciousness as a whole. The increased role of journalism entails changes in the entire system of functioning of music criticism. And if we follow V. Karatygin’s proposed demarcation of criticism into “intramusical” (focused on the psychological foundations of this art) and “extramusical” (based on the general cultural context in which music functions), then the process of change will be from

4 Naturally, many modern tendencies and influences of musical criticism are common, similar to other types of art criticism. At the same time, the scientific understanding of musical criticism is aimed at comprehending its nature and specificity, which is associated with the reflection and refraction of the phenomena of musical culture and music itself, in which V. Kholopova rightly sees a “positive, “harmonizing” attitude towards a person at the most important points his interaction with the world and with himself.

5 Here, the new time is understood as the period from the beginning of the 90s of the last century, when the processes of change in Russia declared themselves so strongly that they gave rise to scientific interest in this period and to distinguish it from the general historical context - as really containing a number of qualitatively new properties and characteristics in all areas of social and artistic life. razhen equally at both of these levels, mutually influencing each other with their transformations.

Therefore, given the complexity and multidimensionality of the “other being” of modern music criticism, the “separate” (internal) principle of its analysis, as a rule, and applied to it, can today be considered only as one of the possible approaches to the problem. And here, an excursion into the history of these problems, the degree of their coverage in Russian science, or rather, in the sciences, can bring clarity to the awareness of the prospects of one or another approach to modern problems of music criticism.

So in the 20s of the XX century, Russian scientists began to seriously worry about methodological aspects - as questions of the most general and constitutive nature. An important stimulus for the development of a system of knowledge about music criticism was the programs developed at the Department of Musicology at the Leningrad Conservatory 6. Asafiev's own contribution to the development of critical thought has long been recognized as indisputable and unique, and it is not by chance that "Asafiev's striking phenomenon of critical thought," according to JI. Danko, "should be studied in the trinity of his scientific knowledge, journalism and pedagogy" .

In this synthesis, a brilliant cascade of works was born that opened up prospects for the further development of the Russian science of music criticism, both monographs that touch on the problem under consideration among others (for example, “On the Music of the 20th Century”) and special articles (to name a few: “Modern Russian Musicology and its historical tasks”, “Problems and methods contemporary criticism”, “The Crisis of Music”).

At the same time, in relation to music criticism, new research methods are proposed and considered in the program articles of A. Lunacharsky, included in his collections “Issues of the sociology of music”, “In the world of music”, the works of R. Gruber: “Installation of musical and artistic

6 Department, just opened in 1929 on the initiative of B.V. Asafiev, by the way, for the first time not only in the Soviet Union, but also in the world. concepts in the socio-economic plane”, “On musical criticism as a subject of theoretical and historical study”. We also find coverage of the same problems in a large number of articles that appeared on the pages of magazines of the 1920s - Musical News, Music and October, Musical Education, Music and Revolution, in addition to the sharp discussions that have unfolded about music criticism in the journal "Worker and Theater" (No. 5, 9, 14, 15, 17, etc.).

Symptomatic for the period of the 1920s was the choice by scientists of the sociological aspect as a general, dominant one, although they designated and emphasized it in different ways. So, B. Asafiev, as N. Vakurova notes, justifies the need for a sociological research method, starting from the specifics of critical activity itself. Defining the scope of criticism as “an intellectual superstructure growing around a work”, as one of the means of communication “between several parties interested in creating a thing”, he points out that the main thing in criticism is the moment of evaluation, elucidation of the value of a musical work or a musical phenomenon. .. As a result the same complex multi-stage process of perception of an artistic phenomenon and the struggle of “assessments” and its true value, its “social value” is determined (N. Vakurova emphasizes), when the work “begins to live in the minds of the totality of people, when groups of people, society, are interested in its existence, state when it becomes social value» .

For R. Gruber, the sociological approach means something else - "the inclusion of the fact being studied in the general connection of surrounding phenomena in order to clarify the ongoing impact." Moreover, the researcher sees a special task for the science of that time - the allocation of a special direction in it, an independent field of knowledge - "critical studies", which, in his opinion, should, first of all, focus on the study of musical criticism in the contextual - social aspect. “The result of the combined use of methods will be a more or less exhaustive picture of the state and development of musical critical thought at any given moment of time,” R. Gruber writes, asking a question and immediately answering it. - Shouldn't the criticist stop there and consider his task accomplished? In no case. For to study a phenomenon of a sociological order, which, undoubtedly, is musical, like any other, criticism; what, in essence, is all art as a whole, without connection with the social order and the socio-economic structure of the hostel - would mean the rejection of a number of fruitful generalizations and, above all, from the explanation of the musical-critical facts ascertained in the process of scientific study.

Meanwhile, the methodological guidelines of Soviet scientists then corresponded to general European trends, which were characterized by the spread of sociological approaches to the methodology of various, including the humanities and musicology7. True, in the USSR, the expansion of the influence of sociology was to some extent associated with ideological control over the spiritual life of society. Nevertheless, the achievements of domestic science in this area were significant.

In the works of A. Sohor, who most consistently represented the sociological trend in Soviet musicology, a number of important methodological issues were developed, including the definition (for the first time in Soviet science) of the system of social functions of music, the rationale for the typology of the modern musical public.

The picture depicting the origins of musical sociology, its formation as a science, is very indicative both in terms of recreating the general development of scientific thought about art, and in terms of determining the methodology with which the beginning of the scientific understanding of musical criticism was connected. Period

7 A. Sohor wrote in detail about the birth and development of the sociological trend in art history in his work “Sociology and Musical Culture” (Moscow, 1975). According to his observations, as early as the 19th century, the concepts of sociology and music began to be used in pairs.

12 of sociological methodology became, in essence, at the same time a period of comprehension of musical criticism by science. And here arises - with the proper coincidence of the method and the subject of its study - their paradoxical discrepancy in the sense of priority. The subject of study (criticism) should generate a method for the purpose of studying this subject, i.e. the subject in this chain of the scientific process is both the initial and the final, closing logical point: at the beginning - an incentive for scientific research, and at the end - the basis for scientific discovery (otherwise scientific research is meaningless). The method in this simple chain is only a mechanism, a middle, connecting, auxiliary (though obligatory) link. It was on this, however, that science then concentrated, placing musical criticism under the conditions of the “probability theory”: it was given the opportunity to be investigated with the help of a well-known or developed methodology. In many ways, this picture remains in science to this day. Still in the center of attention of researchers (which, perhaps, is also a kind of sign of the times - as a result of the influence of scientistic tendencies in all sciences, including the humanities) are the problems of methodology, although already going beyond sociological. This trend can also be traced in works on related types of art criticism (B.M. Bernstein. History of art and art criticism; On the place of art criticism in the system of artistic culture ", M.S. Kagan. Art criticism and scientific knowledge of art; V.N. Prokofiev Art criticism, history of art, theory of the social artistic process: their specificity and problems of interaction within art history, A. T. Yagodovskaya Some methodological aspects of literary and artistic criticism of the 1970-1980s, and in materials on music criticism (G M. Kogan On art history, musicology, criticism, Yu.N.

E. Nazaykinsky, V. Medushevsky, L. Danko, E. Finkelstein, L. Ginzburg, V. Gorodinsky, G. Khubov, Yu. Keldysh, N. Vakurova, L. Kuznetsova, M. Galushko, N. Yuzhanin. But in general, this does not change the general situation in the science of music criticism, which L. Danko points out in his article: “Summing up a brief overview of the state of the historical science of music criticism,” the author writes, takes place in comparison with the history of literary criticism and journalism, and in recent years - theatrical criticism. Since the publication of this article inciting musicologists to action in 1987, research on music criticism has been replenished with just one work, which, however, was an interesting generalization and the result of the author’s extensive practical work at the Department of Musicology of the Moscow Conservatory. This is T. Kurysheva's book "The Word about Music" (M., 1992). "Information for learning" and "information for reflection" the researcher calls his essays. Musical criticism in them is shown as a special field of activity, revealing to the reader its scope and richest opportunities, "hidden riffs and major problems." Essays can serve as a basis for the practical development of the profession of a music critic-journalist. At the same time, the author, following many other researchers, again emphasizes the relevance of the problems of music criticism, which still require attention from science. “Along with specific recommendations and theoretical systematization of the most important aspects of musical critical activity, it is extremely important to look at the process of existence of musical critical thought, especially at the domestic practice of the recent past,” she writes.

Meanwhile, a scientific view of the process of existence of musical criticism has always been difficult for quite objective reasons. (Probably for the same reasons, the question of the legitimacy of setting the task of a scientific approach to the problems of musical criticism arises, which hinders the research initiative). Firstly, the doubtfulness, bias, and sometimes incompetence of critical statements that easily penetrate the pages of the press had a very discrediting effect on the subject itself. However, we must pay tribute to those critics who dispute such a “reputation” of their colleagues with a professional approach, although, as a rule, it finds a place for itself more often on the pages of “closed” academic publications than in democratic publications of “wide consumption”.

In addition, the value of critical statements, it would seem, is offset by the transience of their real existence: creation, "printed" expression, time of demand. Quickly imprinted on the pages of print, they seem to also quickly leave the “newspaper scene”: critical thought is instantaneous, it acts as if “now”. But its value does not apply only to today: undoubtedly, it is of interest as a document of the era, to the pages of which researchers, one way or another, always refer.

And, finally, the main complicating factor influencing the development of scientific thought about musical criticism is the “contextual” nature of the subject under study, which is clearly open in nature, provoking variability in the formulation of the problem. If a piece of music can be analyzed "from the inside" - to identify the structural patterns of the text, then music criticism, only partially allowing a theoretical approach to the study of its phenomena (style, language), involves an open, contextual analysis. In the complex communicative system of the functioning of art and culture, it is secondary: it is a direct product of this system. But at the same time, it has its own intrinsic value, or intrinsic value, born as a result of its freedom, which manifests itself - again, not in the internal potential of the means, but in the ability to actively influence the entire system. Thus, musical criticism becomes not only one of its components, but a strong mechanism for managing, regulating, and influencing culture as a whole. This reveals its common property with other subsystems of art, reflecting various aspects of the impact on the life of society - a common, in the words of E. Dukov, "regulative modality" . (The researcher offers his own concept of the historical process of the functioning of music, the originality of which lies in the fact that it traces the transformations of the forms of organization of musical life, from time to time acting either in the direction of social consolidation or in the direction of differentiation). In continuation of his thought in relation to the phenomenon of journalism, it would be possible to reveal its potential in the implementation of the task of confronting the total plurality of modern society, its “differentiation, which today goes not only through different sound “spaces” - layers of the “musical biosphere” (K. Karaev), but also according to the different social and historical experience of the listeners, as well as the peculiarities of the context in which the music falls in each individual case.

In this perspective, its "secondary" turns into a completely different side and acquires a new meaning. As the embodiment of the value-determining principle, music criticism (and B. Asafiev once wrote that it is “criticism that acts as a factor that establishes the social significance of a work of art, and serves as a barometer indicating changes in pressure environment in relation to this or that recognized or struggling for recognition of artistic value ") becomes a necessary condition for the existence of art as such, since art is completely within the value consciousness. According to T. Kurysheva, "it not only needs to be evaluated, but in general it really performs its functions only with a value attitude towards it" .

Secondaryity”, proceeding from the contextual nature of musical criticism, manifests itself in the fact that it endows its subject with the property of an “applied genre”. Both in relation to musicology (T. Kurysheva calls music criticism “applied musicology”), and in relation to journalism (the same researcher puts music criticism and journalism in ranks, assigning the first role of content, and the second - of form). Musical criticism finds itself in a dual position: for musicology, it is subordinate in terms of problems due to the lack of scores as the material of the proposed study; for journalism - and at all attracted only from time to time. And its subject is at the junction of different practices and their corresponding sciences.

Moreover, music criticism realizes its intermediate position at one more level: as a phenomenon that balances the interaction of two poles - science and art. Hence the originality of the journalistic view and statement, which “is due to a combination of objective scientific and social value approaches. In its depths, a work of a journalistic genre necessarily contains a grain of scientific research, - V. Medushevsky rightly emphasizes, - quick, operational and relevant reflection. But thought acts here in a stimulating function, it values-orientates culture.

One cannot but agree with the conclusions of the scientist about the need for cooperation between science and criticism, among the forms of which he sees the development of common themes, as well as mutual discussion and analysis of the state of the “opponent”. In this sense, the scientific study of music criticism, in our opinion, can also take on the role of a mechanism for this convergence. Thus, it will pursue as its goal an analysis that regulates the proportion q of scientificity in journalism, which must necessarily be present there.

8 “Publicism is wider than criticism,” the researcher explains here. - It can be said that criticism is a kind of journalism specific to art criticism, the subject of which is art: works, artistic movements, trends. Publicism, on the other hand, concerns everything, the entire musical life. as a guarantee of the adequacy and objectivity of a critical statement, although remaining at the same time, using figurative expression V. Medushevsky, “behind the scenes”.

All this reveals the synthetic nature of the phenomenon under study, the study of which is complicated by many different analytical contexts, and the researcher is faced with the choice of a single aspect of analysis. And possible, conditioned-preferable from many others in this case it is presented - as the most generalizing and synthesizing - culturological method, in its own way "significant" for modern methodology.

Such an approach to the study of music - and music criticism is a part of "musical life" - has existed in science for only a few decades: not so long ago, in the late eighties, a lot was said about its relevance on the pages of Soviet Music. Leading Russian musicologists actively discussed the problem that had come to the fore at the time, which was formulated as "music in the context of culture", by analyzing external determinants and their interaction with music. At the end of the seventies, as noted, a real methodological "boom" occurred - the product of revolutions in scientific fields close to art criticism - in general and social psychology, semiotics, structuralism, information theory, hermeneutics. New logical, categorical apparatuses have entered into research use. The fundamental problems of musical art were actualized, much attention began to be paid to questions about the nature of music, its specificity among other arts, and its place in the system of modern culture. Many researchers note that the culturological trend is gradually moving from the periphery to the center of the methodological system in the science of music and is gaining a priority position; that "the current stage in the development of art criticism is marked by a sharp increase in interest in cultural issues, its kind of expansion into all its branches" .

By no means a success, but a serious shortcoming, the need of modern science for fragmentation, for specialization, is also presented to V. Medushevsky, who, sharing the point of view of scientists, expresses regret that he has to put up with it due to an unprecedented increase in the volume of knowledge and wide branching.

Musical criticism as a particularly synthetic subject, open to multi-level approaches and related fields of knowledge, seems to be the most “programmed” by its nature to comply with the cultural method of research, its multidimensionality and variability in terms of posing and considering problems. And although the idea of ​​introducing musical criticism into the general aesthetic and cultural-historical context is not new (one way or another, art critics have always turned to it, choosing criticism as the subject of their analysis), nevertheless, despite the wide coverage of the problems presented in recent studies9, a number of areas continues to be "closed" to modern musicology, and many problems are just beginning to manifest themselves. Thus, in particular, the significance of the positive field of information about academic art as a counterbalance to the destructive tendencies of "furious reality" and technocratic civilization is still not clear; the evolution of the functions of musical criticism, their transformed expression in the conditions of modern times, requires explanation; also a special area of ​​problems are the features of the psychology of the modern critic and the social psychology of the listener-reader; a new purpose of musical criticism in regulating the relations of academic art - the former

9 In addition to the above articles and books, these include L. Kuznetsova's dissertations “Theoretical Problems of Soviet Music Criticism at the Present Stage” (L., 1984); E. Skuratova "Forming the readiness of students of the conservatory for musical propaganda activities" (Minsk, 1990); See also N. Vakurova's article "The Formation of Soviet Music Criticism". de all "production", creativity and performance - and "mass culture", etc.

In accordance with the culturological approach, musical criticism can be interpreted as a kind of prism through which the problems of modern culture are highlighted, and at the same time, feedback can be used, considering criticism as an independent evolving phenomenon - in parallel with modern culture and under the influence of its general processes.

At the same time, the time slice itself, which is limited to about the last decade, makes the formulation of this problem even more relevant, precisely because of it, as B. Asafiev said, “inevitable, attracting and alluring vitality” 10. The relevance of the problem is also confirmed by the arguments that serve as antitheses to the above factors that hinder the development of scientific thought about musical criticism. As noted, there are three of them: the adequacy of a critical statement (not only in the evaluation of a work of art or performance, but in the very presentation, the form of the statement, corresponding to the modern level of perception and social demands, the requirements of a new quality); the timeless value of musical journalism as a document of the era; the free functioning of musical criticism (with its contextual nature) as a mechanism for managing and influencing modern culture.

Methodological foundations of the study

Studies of music criticism were carried out in a variety of scientific areas: sociology, history of criticism, methodology, communication problems. The focus of this study was

10 This statement by B. Asafiev is quoted from the article “The Tasks and Methods of Modern Music Criticism”, which we have already cited, which was also published in the collection “Criticism and Musicology”. - Issue. 3. -L .: Music, 1987.-S. 229. to bring together a single methodological space from heterogeneous and multidirectional theoretical principles, to reveal the patterns of development of this phenomenon in the conditions of modern times.

Research methods

To consider the complex of problems of musical criticism and in accordance with its multidimensional nature, the dissertation uses a number of scientific methods that are adequate to the object and subject of research. In order to establish the genesis of scientific knowledge about musical criticism, the method of historical and source analysis is used. The development of a provision on the functioning of musical criticism within the sociocultural system required the implementation of a method for studying various kinds of phenomena based on similarities and differences. The communicative system is an ascent from the abstract to the concrete. The method of modeling the future results of the development of musical criticism in the conditions of the periphery is also used.

The overall picture, which the author intends to recreate in the aspects that interest him, should serve not just as a background, but as a systemic mechanism in which music criticism is involved. Schematically, the course of reasoning can be represented by a visual representation of the various levels of influence of musical criticism on the general system of culture, which, "embracing" the subject, are located "around" it according to the degree of increase in the strength of their action and gradual complication, as well as according to the principle of summing up previous facts and conclusions. (Naturally, in the course of work, this multilayered circle of reasoning is supplemented, concretized and complicated).

V - communicative

IV - psychological

I- axiological

II - heuristic

III - compensatory

The first (I - axiological) level involves consideration of the phenomenon of musical criticism in a consistent movement from adequate perception to the external output of its influence - a) as an implementation of the dialectic of objective and subjective, and b) as a critical assessment. That is, from the sublevel, which acts as a stimulus for the operation of the entire system, at the same time giving "permission" to enter it and simultaneously absorbing the consideration of the problem of "critic as a listener" - to the level itself: in this movement the conditionality of the second to the first is clearly indicated, which, in our opinion, sets the tone for logical constructions and justifies the choice of the sequence of analysis. Therefore, it seems natural to move to the second (and further - to subsequent) levels, shifting the conversation from the problem of artistic evaluation to identifying the criteria for innovation in art, which are used by today's criticism (II - heuristic level).

However, the very acceptance and understanding of the “new” seems to us more broadly - as the search for this quality in creativity, in the social phenomena of musical life, in the ability to perceive and describe it in journalism - with the help of a new sign expression of all the qualities of the “new”, the key is chosen”, “ switching” or “recoding” of already known, existing sign forms. Moreover, the "new" - as part of a changing cultural model - is an indispensable attribute of the "modern". The processes of renewal, today in many respects they are the same - the processes of destructuring, clearly identified in the post-Soviet period, clearly reveal a “significant hunger”, when, according to M. Knyazeva, “culture begins to look for a new language for describing the world”, as well as new channels for learning the language of modern culture (TV, radio, cinema). This remark is all the more interesting because the researcher in connection with it expresses an idea that leads us to yet another conclusion. It lies in the fact that "cultural knowledge and higher knowledge always exist as a secret teaching." “Culture,” the researcher emphasizes, “is developing in closed areas. But when the crisis begins, then there is a kind of binary and ternary encoding. Knowledge goes into a hidden environment and there is a gap between the high knowledge of the initiates and the everyday consciousness of the masses. And, consequently, the availability of the “new” is directly dependent on the ways of switching the components of musical culture to a new listening, reading audience. And this, in turn, comes from those linguistic forms of "translation" that are used today. The problem of innovation for modern criticism, therefore, turns out to be not only a problem of identifying and, of course, evaluating the new in art: it includes the “new language” of journalism, and the new emphasis on issues, and, more broadly, its new relevance in the direction of overcoming the distance that arises between "the high knowledge of the initiates and the everyday consciousness of the masses." Here, the idea of ​​restoring the connection between the two emerging types of awareness and perception actually goes to the next level of analysis, where music criticism is seen as a factor that reconciles the various poles of modern culture. This level (we called it III - compensatory) comments on a new situational factor, which G. Eisler said in the best possible way: “Serious music while eating and reading newspapers completely changes its own practical purpose: it becomes light music.”

The democratization of once socially specialized forms of musical art that arises in such a situation is obvious. However, it is combined with destructive moments that require modern musical culture to use special protective measures that lead to a balance of imbalance of values ​​- they are also called upon to develop musical criticism (along with performing musicians and art distributors, mediators between art itself and the public). Moreover, musical journalism also carries out its compensatory action in many other areas that characterize the imbalance of conditional images around which a stable cultural model is built: the predominance of the consumption of works of art over creativity; transmission, interception of communication between the artist and the public and their transfer from creative to commercial structures; the dominance of differentiating tendencies in musical life, their multiplicity, the constant mobility of the situation in contemporary art; transformation of the main cultural coordinates: expansion of space - and acceleration of processes, reduction of time for reflection; ethnic decline, national mentality art under the influence of the standards of "mass art" and the influx of Americanization, as a continuation of this series and at the same time its result - the psycho-emotional reduction of art (IV - psychological level), a failure that spreads its destructive effect on the very cult of spirituality that underlies any culture.

According to the information theory of emotion, “artistic need should decrease with a decrease in emotionality and an increase in awareness”11. And this observation, which in the original context referred to "age characteristics", finds today its confirmation in the situation of contemporary art, when the information field turns out to be practically limitless, equally open to any psychological influences. In this process, the main performer, on which this or that filling of the emotional environment depends, is the mass media, and musical journalism - as a sphere also belonging to them - in this case takes on the role of an energy regulator (psychological level). Destruction or consolidation of natural emotional ties, informational provocation, programming of states of catharsis - or negative, negative experiences, indifference or (when the line in perception is erased and "serious ceases to be serious") - its action can be strong and influential and actualization of its positive- directional pressure today is obvious. According to the general belief of scientists, culture always relies on a system of positive values. And in the psychological impact of the mechanisms that contribute to their declaration, there are also prerequisites for the consolidation and humanization of culture.

Finally, the next (V - communicative) level contains the possibility of considering the problem in the aspect of the change in communications, which is observed in the modern state of art. In the new system of communicative relations between the artist and the public, their mediator (more precisely, one of the mediators) - music criticism - expresses itself in such forms as regulating the socio-psychological compatibility of the artist and the recipient, explaining, commenting on the growing "uncertainty" of works of art etc. The main provisions of this theory are considered by V. Semenov in the work "Art as interpersonal communication" (St. Petersburg, 1995).

12 In particular, DLikhachev and A. Solzhenitsyn write about this.

In this aspect, one can also consider the phenomenon of changing status, prestige, which characterizes the type of appropriation of art objects, the very belonging of the individual to his academic sphere and the selection of value criteria through authorities among professionals, as well as the preferences given by readers to certain critics.

Thus, the circle of reasoning closes: from the evaluation of musical art by criticism - to the external social and social evaluation of critical activity itself.

The structure of the work is focused on a general concept that involves consideration of musical criticism in an upward movement from the abstract to the concrete, from general theoretical problems to the consideration of the processes taking place in the modern information society, including within a single region. The dissertation includes the main text (Introduction, two main chapters and Conclusion), Bibliography and two appendices, the first of which contains examples of computer pages reflecting the content of a number of art magazines, and the second contains fragments of a discussion that took place in the Voronezh press in 2004 year, about the role of the Union of Composers and other creative associations in modern Russian culture

Dissertation conclusion on the topic "Musical Art", Ukrainian, Anna Vadimovna

Conclusion

The range of questions proposed for consideration in this work was focused on the analysis of the phenomenon of musical criticism in the conditions of modern culture. The starting point for identifying the main properties of the analyzed phenomenon was the realization of a new informational quality, which Russian society in recent decades. Information processes were considered as the most important factor of social development, as a specific reflection of the consistent transformation of human perception, transmission and distribution methods, storage of various types of information, including information about music. At the same time, the aspect of information content made it possible to bring a unified position under the consideration of the phenomena of musical culture and journalism, thanks to which musical criticism appeared both as a reflection of the general, universal property of culture and as a reflection of a specific property of journalistic processes (in particular, musical criticism was considered in the regional aspect) .

The paper outlined the specifics of the genesis of music criticism as a historically established socio-cultural form and subject of scientific knowledge, traced the path of the sociological method of its study, and also identified factors that hinder scientific interest in the phenomenon under consideration.

Trying to substantiate the relevance of today's study of music criticism, we have chosen the most, in our opinion, generalizing and synthesizing - culturological method. Thanks to the versatility this method, as well as its variability in terms of posing and considering problems, it became possible to highlight music criticism as an independent evolving phenomenon that has an impact on the entire musical culture as a whole.

The processes of change observed in the state of modern music criticism appeared as a reflection of the transformation of its functions. Thus, the work traces the role of musical criticism in the implementation of information-communicative and value-regulatory processes, and also emphasizes the increased ethical significance of musical criticism, designed to carry out special protective measures that lead to a balance of imbalance of values.

The problematic perspective taken in the system of a holistic cultural model made it possible, in turn, to establish the fact of the actualization of the axiological aspect of musical criticism. It is precisely the adequate definition of the value of this or that musical phenomenon by critics that serves as the basis for the system of relationships between modern musical criticism and culture as a whole: through the value attitude of criticism towards culture, various forms of existence and functioning of culture are involved in this system (such as mass and academic culture, trends in the commercialization of art and creativity, public opinion and qualified assessment).

So, in the course of the work, cultural and ideological results were revealed that characterize the state of modern music criticism:

Expanding the range of its functions and strengthening the ethical significance of the phenomenon of music criticism;

The change in the artistic quality of musical criticism as a reflection of the strengthening of the creative principle in it;

Changing the ratio of musical criticism and censorship, propaganda in the process of transformation of artistic judgment;

The growing role of musical criticism in the formation and regulation of the evaluation of the phenomena of artistic life;

Centrifugal tendencies reflecting the projection of cultural phenomena, including musical criticism, from the radius of capital cities to the radius of the province.

The desire for a panoramic systemic vision of the problems associated with the state of modern music criticism is combined in this work with a specific analysis of the state of modern journalism and the press. This approach is due to the ability to immerse the outlined issues not only in a scientific, but also in a practical semantic context - and thereby give the work a certain practical value, which, in our opinion, may consist in the possible use of the main provisions and conclusions of the dissertation by music critics, publicists, as well as journalists working in the departments of culture and art of non-specialized publications to understand the need to merge music criticism with modern media, as well as to build their activities in the direction of integrating musicological (scientific and journalistic) and its journalistic forms. Awareness of the urgency of such a merger can only be based on the realization of the creative potential of the music critic (journalist) himself, and this new self-awareness should open up positive trends in the development of modern music criticism.

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In the last decade, famous people, representatives of various arts, often touch upon the topic of "modern criticism", referring not to a specific area - not music, not opera, not theater or literature - but criticism designed to observe events in these areas, then there is "criticism in general" as a genre. All of them unanimously state that today criticism is in deep decline - no one has the slightest doubt about this! Many theses are put forward about critics, starting with the assertion that critics are losers who have not found application in their chosen field as creators, and ending with the assertion that without critics it is impossible to understand what creators did and how. It is clear that between these extremes there is a huge number of variations that express the subtleties of understanding the specifics of the critical genre both by the general public, both by the critics themselves and by criticized creators.

It is interesting to hear from living creators that they themselves are also interested in competent, impartial, but justified criticism of themselves. It is argued that the creator is curious to read something original about himself, even if it is negative, perceiving criticism as a “look from the outside”. The creators state that criticism is the same creative area as any other "subject" sphere: prose, poetry, music, opera, drama theater, architecture, and so on, in connection with which we can name the names of V. Belinsky, N. Dobrolyubov , V. Stasov, B. Shaw, R. Rolland and many others, that is, critics who entered the history of art along with its creators.

The crisis of modern criticism is by no means caused by the fact that supposedly “losers” went into it, but by the fact that today everyone goes into it in an effort to take their place under the sun and earn money. The reason will be discussed below.

Separately, the sphere of criticism can be singled out, within which murky author's and director's heaps, ambiguities, banal imperfections and thoughtless decisions are declared "philosophical depths" that are inaccessible to mere mortals. The more complicated and heaped up the work is, and the less transparent and understandable its intention, the more "intellectual" and even "philosophical" it can be declared by such criticism. And really, how to check it?

Is criticism art?

I agree with the opinion that criticism is also creativity and that its quality depends on who exactly is engaged in this specific type of creativity. Not every professional musician who personifies any noticeable, and even more so, bright trend in art - if we talk about music, then not every composer, performer, musical organizer - is capable of being a critic, not only because he, due to his engagement and immersion in specifics is not universal, like any narrow specialist, but also because he may not have a critical pen, not have deep knowledge and time to replenish them and engage in criticism. And only a person who maintains a distance in relation to a musical subject, but prepared, in the required respect and sufficiently educated, with a broad outlook, orientated in the world of art and in the world in general as such, unbiased, incorruptible, honest before his own intellectual conscience - only such a person can be a real critic, able in his creative ups and downs to rise above the level of individual creators in order to survey the panorama of the art he considers as a whole “from the height of flight”.

Criticism should help the public to understand the creator (or indicate his lack of depth), to see in his achievements something that even the creator himself may seem unobvious (or even undesirable in his eyes), to find the true place of the creator and his work among other creators and the rest of the array of creativity of the past and present, to find the roots and try to predict their prospects, determining their coordinate in the system of national and world intellectual values. Here is a worthy goal!

What does a music critic create?

Recently, in the polemical heat, one of the artists went overboard and said literally the following: "A critic DOES NOT CREATE ANYTHING, unlike a musician."

Let me disagree right away about "nothing". A musician and a critic have different tasks, and a critic, like a musician, undoubtedly creates something, but this "something" is not music or its performance: the critic creates UNDERSTANDING, he considers this particular work (if we are talking about a composer's creativity) or its performance (if we are talking about interpretation) in modern and historical context based on the knowledge and experience of past eras. It is in this sense that the critic can and should be much more powerful than the musicians.

A critic by necessity is a historian, analyst and writer, capable of tracking and covering the widest possible range of current musical life, mastering huge amounts of historical information and philosophical generalizations. Of course, we are talking about GOOD criticism. But after all, in the statement I have cited, it is not some specific “bad critic” that is hurt, but the profession as such, in other words, a generalization has also been made, which, in turn, does not stand up to any criticism.

Is a critic supposed to be kind or objective?

One often hears that criticism is too evil, categorical, impudent, that it does not pity people who have sacrificed their lives on the altar of art, and so on. The main question is whether the critic's conclusions are rooted in reality. For example, if, out of kindness, a critic praises bad singers and does not notice their shortcomings, does this contribute to improving the overall picture of our concert and opera life? After all, a bad singer takes someone's place on the stage, because of him someone is not allowed to perform, someone is deprived of roles - should a critic squander his kindness in such cases? I don't think it should.

A critic should strive to be objective, and his text should be correct.

In fairness, it should be noted that the Internet and the print press are flooded with panegyric reviews that praise average or even mediocre musicians. Is that better than harsh criticism? Whom do we deceive on behalf of good critics - ourselves?

Can a critic be wrong?

The best critic can make mistakes. Actually, there is never an absolute guarantee: a critic can make a mistake in the title, in the surname, distort some fact, make a typo. Just as a musician can make mistakes, so a critic can make mistakes too. True, critics are often called upon to publicly apologize for a printed or spoken word, but do musicians apologize for their stage “arts” and for their mistakes - textual, stylistic, technical breakdowns, and simply for false and incorrectly memorized notes? I can't remember anything like this! But the enlightened public can also present a lot of things to them, and the critic is the spokesman for this generalized public opinion. Will the critic agree? public opinion whether he disagrees, whether he expresses his own differing opinion, whether he does not, is a separate question, but the critic must be able to do this too.

How to deal with criticism?

Due to the specifics of the profession, excessive ambition, ardor and self-confidence, characteristic of artists who carry a direct creative impulse with which they go to the public, and therefore - again by virtue of their profession - are prone to some extremism and an exacerbated reaction, do not suit criticism. to the public and critics. But I think that critics should try to forgive them for this: after all, artists go on stage, their nerves are good for nothing, so some of their expansiveness should meet with calm understanding - including among critics.

If critics, not always, perhaps, accurate and accurate, despite their efforts (as, indeed, musicians, too, I want to believe in it, trying to do their job well), do not track the activities of artists, write about them, talk about about their achievements and failures, will it not turn out that the artists will not have information support? In our cynical age, such behavior would be very reckless.

One classic thought was and remains imperishable: no matter what they say about a musician, no matter how they scold and no matter how they praise, if only they don’t forget about him! If only, in other words, PR. And this work, by the way, also belongs to the field of activity of critics, who, of necessity, also act as journalists. Therefore, criticism should be taken lightly.

What should a music critic know and be able to do?

Everyone seems to agree that critics are needed and that they must be professional. But what does it mean to be a professional critic? Does this mean that the critic, like the artists whose performances he reviews, must be able to conduct, sing, dance and play the same musical instruments no less virtuoso than they do? What knowledge and qualities should a critic have?

A music critic must certainly be musically literate: he must be able to read notes, understand scores, it would be useful for him to play some kind of musical instrument. The critic must catch by ear deviations from the musical text, find an error in the notes and be able to explain it. A critic must understand styles, understand and feel which performance techniques in a particular work will be appropriate, and which ones will not. This is where the devil is in the details.

The critic must be aware of contemporary musical life and its tendencies, he must attend concerts and performances in order to feel its pulse.

Music critic, of course - the creator, the question is only on the scale of creativity of a particular person. The subject of critical consideration is the musical activity of the past and present, and the result is analysis, generalization, synthesis and generation of new meanings, which the musician, whose work is being considered by the critic, may not be aware of.

Moreover, many musical phenomena of the past exist exclusively in the reflection of the then criticism, and if it were not for the critics, who noticed and recorded in their texts a lot of curious details, then it would be impossible to judge the performance of past eras at all. Oh yes, the composer's texts remained with us, but is it necessary to say how far the interpretation can be from the author's intended and from his style?

The era of recording made significant adjustments to this matter: now you can join phono documents and judge the activities of artists of a whole century on the basis of objective information, but even in this case, the work of a critic does not lose its importance at all, because recording is also not everything and is not the same as human senses, captures, and most importantly, a phonogram is only a document of the era, and not its critical reflection.

Who can be a critic?

Who can be considered a “professional” in criticism, and why not every professional musician can perform the functions of a critic? Depending on the answer to the question, for what audience does the critic write, the answer can be formulated as to who it might be.

First of all, it must be clearly understood that, in general, a critic is not a musician, and he does not have to be a musician. Being a critic is just another profession, although a musician is quite capable of being a critic. “Criticism” is not taught anywhere, only those who are created for this by nature itself, shaped by society, the education system, individual studies and personal intellectual efforts, who have realized their ability and can realize it, can become a critic. If a critic writes for professionals, then this is one thing; if he writes for enlightened amateurs who have received a musical education - this is the second; if he writes for the widest audience, the quality of which is unpredictable - this is the third.

A critic who writes for professionals must be a professional in the narrow field in which he works, and this is unambiguous. But this is no longer quite a critic - this is a writing professional, for example, a theorist. It would be nice for a critic to have his own portfolio of texts on different topics in the chosen field, and the presence of theoretical works characterizes him very well. Actually, this is not so necessary, but it is desirable to see the intellectual level that a particular writer can rise to.

Personally, the second category of critics is closest to me - those who write for an enlightened public, although I have experience in publishing theoretical works that amateurs are unlikely to understand. However, an enlightened public that has mastered at least the basics music education- this is the audience that is most desirable and to which a critic writing about musical everyday life should be oriented in the first place. Professionals will forgive him, and the widest and most unenlightened audience will at least partially understand something. The critic does not teach anyone, he writes about his impressions, offers his own criteria, but, of course, with a claim to objectivity - otherwise, was it worth getting down to business?

And who are the judges?

Practice is the criterion of truth. Ultimately, the value of criticism is confirmed by life itself. But what does this mean? Recognition by life is when a mass of people - the public, specialists, other critics - recognize what was said by a fellow critic and for the most part accept his assessment of the corresponding objective reality and begin to copy his way of thinking, literary style and use the categories he invented. That is, recognition is always a kind of social contract based on common views.

But the musicians do not want to spoil relations with each other. My personal attempts to get professional musicians to review concerts and performances have failed, because their rule is that their colleagues are either good or nothing. How about the dead.

In fact, it turns out that professional musicians leave critical activity at the mercy of enlightened amateurs, because even if a professional does not perform on stage himself, he works somewhere in the musical field, therefore, in this small world he finds himself bound by the conventions of guild solidarity. Even the worst enemies try not to speak publicly about each other, not only negatively, but at least somewhat critically, so as not to jeopardize their careers, connections, work and friendships. Small world! It turns out that professionals cannot be “judges”: they cannot judge, they are not afraid only to flatter each other.

Of course, “default” criticism is possible: when all professionals are silent about someone or something, this means a negative assessment of the artist or event. But only a critic prone to observations and generalizations can notice this! It turns out a paradox: on the one hand, the world of professional musicians yearns for recognition and public evaluation, and on the other hand, he himself is silent in public, although he talks about everything on the sidelines!

So who is going to criticize us? If you take a look at the modern metropolitan criticism of the newspaper and Internet format, then you can make a surprising, but in fact deeply logical conclusion: as a rule, it is not professional musicians who do it, but enlightened amateurs, connoisseurs and passionate admirers of musical art, the main whose profession has nothing to do with music. There is no need to name names, especially since they are all well known.

What is the reason for this state of affairs? I really want to say that the reason is in the musicians themselves, but if you think about it, the traditions of a certain kind of social structure are to blame. But if musicians have already delegated the powers of critics to other people, then they hardly have the moral right to be too strict about criticism, in which they do not want to invest their three kopecks.

Of course, criticism, as I stated at the very beginning, is in deep decline, but at the present stage it is somehow fulfilling its current task, and we will see what happens next.

"Bela Bartok's Piano Concerto is the most monstrous stream of nonsense, bombast and nonsense that our public has ever heard."

“Allegro reminded me of my childhood—the creaking of a well shaft, the distant rattle of a freight train, then the belly growling of a prankster eating fruit in a neighbor’s garden, and finally the alarmed clucking of a chicken scared to death by a Scottish terrier. The second, short part, throughout its length, was filled with the buzz of the November wind in the telegraph wires. The third movement began with a howl of dogs in the night, continued with the squelching of a cheap water closet, turned into the harmonious snoring of a soldier's barracks shortly before dawn, and ended with a violin imitating the creak of an unoiled wheel at a wheelbarrow. The fourth movement reminded me of the sounds I made out of boredom at the age of six, stretching and releasing a piece of rubber. And, finally, the fifth part unmistakably reminded me of the noise of the Zulu village, which I happened to observe at the International Exhibition in Glasgow. I never thought that I would hear it again - in the background, the shrill squeal of Scottish bagpipes was still mixed with it. With these sounds the Fourth Quartet of Béla Bartók ended.

From Alan Dent's letter, op. by: James Agate, "The Later Ego"

Brahms

“Brahms is the most promiscuous of composers. However, his debauchery is not malicious. Rather, he resembles a large child with a tedious tendency to dress up as Handel or Beethoven and make an unbearable noise for a long time.

“In Brahms' Symphony in C Minor, every note seems to suck the blood out of the listener. Will this kind of music ever be popular? At least here and now, in Boston, she is not in demand - the audience listened to Brahms in silence, and this was clearly a silence caused by confusion, not reverence.

“The program of the evening included the Symphony in C minor by Brahms. I have carefully studied the score and I confess my utter inability to understand this work and why it was written at all. This music is reminiscent of a visit to a sawmill in the mountains.”

Beethoven

“Opinions were divided on Beethoven's Pastoral Symphony, but almost everyone agreed that it was too long. One andante lasts a good quarter of an hour and, since it consists of a series of repetitions, can be easily shortened without any damage - for the composer or his listeners.

The Harmonicon, London, June 1823

“Beethoven's compositions are becoming more and more eccentric. He rarely writes these days, but what comes out of his pen is so unintelligible and vague, full of such incomprehensible and often simply repulsive harmonies, which only baffles critics and perplexes performers.

The Harmonicon, London, April 1824

“There is much to admire in the Heroic Symphony, but it is difficult to maintain admiration for three long quarters of an hour. It is infinitely long ... If this symphony is not cut, it will certainly be forgotten.

The Harmonicon, London, April 1829

“The chorus that closes the Ninth Symphony is very effective in places, but there is so much of it, and so many unexpected pauses and strange, almost ridiculous passages of trumpet and bassoon, so many incoherent, loud-voiced string parts used without any sense - and, to top it off of everything, the deafening, frantic joy of the finale, in which, in addition to the usual triangles, drums, trumpets, all percussion instruments known to mankind were used ... From these sounds the earth trembled under our feet, and from their graves the shadows of the venerable Tallis, Purcell and Gibbons, and even Handel rose with Mozart to see and mourn that violent, uncontrollable noise, that modern frenzy and madness into which their art has become.

Quaterly Musical Magazine and Review, London, 1825

"To me, Beethoven always sounded like someone had emptied nails out of a bag and dropped a hammer on top of it."

Bizet

“Carmen is hardly more than just a collection of chansons and verses… musically, this opera does not stand out much against the background of Offenbach's compositions. As a work of art, Carmen is nothing.”

“Bizet belongs to that new sect whose prophet is Wagner. For them, the themes are out of fashion, the melodies are outdated; the voices of the singers, pressed down by the orchestra, are turned into a faint echo. Of course, all this ends in badly organized compositions, to which Carmen belongs, full of strange and unusual resonances. The indecently inflated struggle between instruments and voices is one of the mistakes of the new school.

Moniteur Universel, Paris, March 1875

“If you imagine that his Satanic Highness sat down to write an opera, he would probably have something like Carmen.”

Wagner

“Wagner's music suffers from sophistication and perversity; weak desires are felt in it, aroused by a frustrated imagination, relaxation is felt, poorly covered by youthfulness and outward brilliance. With refined, painful harmonies and a too bright orchestra, Wagner tries to hide the poverty of musical thought, just as an old man hides his wrinkles under a thick layer of white and rouge! Little hope can be expected from German music in the future: Wagner has already fulfilled his purpose, he can only repeat himself; and young German composers write some kind of petty-bourgeois music, devoid of poetry and German Geist.

Caesar Cui."Opera season in St. Petersburg", 1864

“The prelude to Tristan und Isolde reminds me of an old Italian drawing of a martyr, whose guts are slowly wound around a shaft.”

Edward Hanslik. June 1868

“Even if you gather all the organists in Berlin, lock them up in a circus and force everyone to play their own tune, then even then you won’t get such unbearable cat music as Wagner’s Die Meistersingers.”

Heinrich Dorn. Montagszeitung, Berlin, 1870

“Open the clavier of Tristan and Isolde: this is progressive music for cats. Any crappy pianist who plays white keys instead of black ones, or vice versa, can repeat it.

Heinrich Dorn."Aus meinem Leben", Berlin, 1870

Debussy

Debussy's The Afternoon of a Faun is a typical example of modern musical ugliness. The faun obviously did not have a good evening - the unfortunate creature is either abraded and grinded by wind instruments, then it quietly neighs with a flute, avoiding even a hint of a soothing melody, until its suffering is transmitted to the public. This music is full of dissonances, as it is now accepted, and these eccentric erotic spasms only indicate that our musical art is in a transitional phase. When will the melodist of the future come?”

“There was nothing natural in this ecstasy of excess; the music seemed forced and hysterical; at times, a suffering faun definitely needed a veterinarian.”

Sheet

“Liszt's orchestral music is an insult to art. It is tasteless musical debauchery, wild and incoherent animal lowing.

Boston Gazette, op. by: Dexter Smith's Papers, April 1872

“Take a look at any of Liszt's compositions and tell me honestly whether there is even a measure of genuine music in them. Compositions! Decomposition is the right word for this disgusting mold that chokes and poisons the fertile soils of harmony.

“The Liszt concert is a vile, low-grade dirty trick. Travelers describe the performances of Chinese orchestras in this way. Perhaps this is a representative of the school of the future ... If so, then the future will throw the works of Mozart, Beethoven and Haydn into the dustbin.

Liszt forces musicians to squeeze the most unpleasant sounds in the world out of their instruments. His violinists play with a bow almost at the stand, so that the sound resembles the meowing of a lonely, lustful cat in the night. Bassoons hoot and grunt like prize pigs at a fair. Cellists assiduously saw their instruments, like woodsmen sawing hefty logs. The conductor is trying to cope with all this, but if the musicians had discarded the notes and played whatever God puts on their souls, it would have turned out just as well.”

Mahler

“Slobbering, castrated simplicity of Gustav Mahler! It would be unfair to waste the reader's time on a description of that monstrous musical deformity that is hidden under the name of the Fourth Symphony. The author is ready to honestly admit that he has never experienced more torture than an hour or more of this music.

Mussorgsky

"Boris Godunov could be titled Cacophony in Five Acts and Seven Scenes."

“I have thoroughly studied Boris Godunov... Mussorgsky music I send to hell with all my heart; it is the most vulgar and vile parody of music."

“Night on Bald Mountain” by Mussorgsky is the most disgusting thing we have ever heard. An orgy of ugliness, a real abomination. We hope to never hear from her again!”

Musical Times, London, March 1898

Prokofiev

“The writings of Mr. Prokofiev do not belong to art, but to the world of pathology and pharmacology. Here they are definitely undesirable, for Germany alone, since her moral and political degeneration has overwhelmed her, has produced more musical guano than the civilized world can bear. Yes, it sounds straightforward, but someone has to resist the tendency to please the public by writing what we can only call low and vulgar music. The compositions of Mr. Prokofiev for the piano, which he himself performed, deserve separate curses. There is nothing in them that can hold the listener's attention, they do not strive for any meaningful ideal, they do not carry an aesthetic load, they do not try to expand the expressive means of music. It's just a perversion. They will die a death of miscarriage."

“For the new music of Prokofiev, some new ears are needed. His lyrical themes sluggish and lifeless. The second sonata contains no musical development, the ending is reminiscent of the flight of mammoths across the prehistoric Asian steppe.

Puccini

Most, if not all of Tosca, is exceedingly ugly, though peculiar and bizarre in its ugliness. The composer, with diabolical ingenuity, learned to push together sharp, painful-sounding timbres.

Ravel

“Listening to a whole program of Ravel's compositions is like watching a dwarf or a pygmy all evening doing curious but very modest tricks in a very limited range. The almost serpentine composure of this music, which Ravel seems to cultivate on purpose, in large quantities can only cause disgust; even her beauties are like the iridescent scales of lizards or snakes.

Rachmaninoff

“If there was a conservatory in hell... and it was given to write a program symphony on the theme of the seven Egyptian plagues, and if it were written like a Rachmaninoff symphony... then he brilliantly completed the task and would delight the inhabitants of hell.”

Rimsky-Korsakov

“Sadko by Rimsky-Korsakov is program music in its most shameless form, barbarism coupled with extreme cynicism. Rarely have we encountered such poverty of musical thought and such shamelessness of orchestration. Herr von Korsakov is a young Russian officer and, like all Russian guardsmen, a fanatical admirer of Wagner. Probably, in Moscow and St. Petersburg they are proud of the attempt to cultivate something similar to Wagner in their native soil - like Russian champagne, sour, but much more pungent than the original. But here in Vienna, concert organizations are oriented towards decent music, and we have every reason to protest against such a foul-smelling dilettantism.

Edward Hanslik. 1872

saint sans

“Saint-Saens has written more rubbish than any of the famous composers. And this is the worst kind of rubbish, the worst rubbish in the world.

Scriabin

“Scriabin is under the illusion, common to all neurotic degenerates (whether geniuses or ordinary idiots), that he expands the boundaries of art, complicating it. But no, he did not succeed - on the contrary, he took a step back.

Scriabin's Prometheus is a work by a once respectable composer who fell ill with a mental disorder.

Musical Quarterly, July 1915

“Undoubtedly, there is some sense in Scriabin's music, but it is also redundant. We already have cocaine, heroin, morphine and countless similar drugs, not to mention alcohol. This is more than enough! Why also turn music into a spiritual drug? Eight brandies and five double whiskeys are as good as eight trumpets and five trombones.”

Cecil Grey. A survey on contemporary music, 1924

Stravinsky

“Stravinsky is completely incapable of formulating his own musical ideas. But he is fully capable of beating the drum rhythmically in his barbarian orchestra, the only living and real form in his music; that primitive kind of repetition which birds and small children excel at."

Musical Times, London, June 1929

“It seems quite probable that most of Stravinsky's music, if not all of it, is destined to fall into oblivion soon. The enormous influence of The Rite of Spring has already faded away, and what at the premiere seemed like the first glimpses of inspiring fire quickly turned into dull smoldering ash.

Chaikovsky

“The Russian composer Tchaikovsky is no doubt not a true talent, but an inflated figure; he is obsessed with the idea of ​​his own genius, but has neither intuition nor taste ... In his music I see the vulgar faces of savages, I hear swearing and smell of vodka ... Friedrich Fischer once said about some paintings that they are so disgusting that they stink . When I listened to the Violin Concerto by Mr. Tchaikovsky, it occurred to me that there is also stinky music.”

“There are people who constantly complain about their fate and talk with particular fervor about all their sores. That's what I hear in Tchaikovsky's music... The overture to "Eugene Onegin" begins with a whimper... The whimper continues in the duets... Lensky's aria is a miserable diatonic whining. On the whole, the opera is inept and stillborn.”

“Tchaikovsky's Fifth Symphony is a complete disappointment... A farce, a musical pudding, is mediocre to the last degree. In the last part, the Kalmyk blood of the composer gets the best of him, and the composition begins to resemble a bloody slaughter of cattle.

Shostakovich

“Shostakovich is, without a doubt, the main composer of pornographic music in the history of art. Scenes from “Lady Macbeth of the Mtsensk District” are a celebration of the kind of vulgarity that is written on the walls of the toilets.

“Shostakovich's Ninth Symphony forced the author of these lines to leave the hall in a state of acute irritation. Thank God, this time there was no rough pomposity and pseudo-depths, characteristic of the Sixth and Eighth symphonies; but they have been replaced by a hodgepodge of circus melodies, galloping rhythms and outdated harmonic quirks, reminiscent of the babble of a precocious child.

Tempo, London, September 1946

Schuman

“In vain we listened to the Allegro. Op. 8“ Schumann, hoping to find a measured development of the melody, a harmony that would at least last the beat - no, only confusing combinations of dissonances, modulations, ornamentations, in a word, real torture.

Chopin

“The entire corpus of Chopin's works is a motley mixture of pompous hyperbole and agonizing cacophony.<…>One can only guess how George Sand can waste precious minutes of his delightful life on such an artistic nonentity as Chopin.

Musical World, London, October 1841

"It is inconceivable that musicians - except perhaps those with a morbid craving for noise, grinding and dissonance - could seriously enjoy Chopin's ballads, waltzes and mazurkas."

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Sources

  • Slonimsky N. Lexicon of Musical Invective. Critical Assaults on Composers Since Beethoven's Time.

Member of the group "Orgy of the Righteous"

“Objective criticism is professional criticism. That is, a critic should understand music at the level of a musicologist: specialized education is not necessary, but desirable. Only in this case, a person can express claims and praises with reason, otherwise, instead of criticism, we will have a satisfied or dissatisfied muttering of the consumer. Simply put, being a critic is a profession. Unfortunately, since the days of underground rock samizdat, we have a musical journalism that talks about anything but music. And if he tries to talk about the subject, it is exclusively emotional. An example of good music journalism is In Rock magazine, which I can recommend to readers.

Member of Tesla Boy

“The phrase “objective musical criticism” sounds almost the same as “peaceful missile and bomb attack” or “medicinal polonium (expectorant)”. In the parental library there is an amusing anniversary edition of the Niva magazine of 1901. In it, the music critic Vladimir Vasilyevich Stasov, among other things, writes very coolly and even with undisguised skepticism about the music of Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky, which, according to the venerable author, most likely will not remain in people's memory, as very superficial and light. While the music of Rimsky-Korsakov, according to Stasov, will pass in a year and will be remembered by many generations. No, of course, and Rimsky-Korsakov is known all over the world. But what will almost any more or less educated foreigner sing first? Of course, Tchaikovsky's First Concerto! This does not mean that Vladimir Vasilievich was a bad critic and was mistaken. And this does not mean that Tchaikovsky is cooler than Rimsky-Korsakov. This once again proves how relative any assessment in relation to music is. All lines are different. And tastes too. My teacher Mikhail Moiseevich Okun had one very simple criterion: he said that all music is divided into talented and non-talented. I think that specialists in certain, narrow genres can be as close as possible to objective musical criticism; say, a specialist in medieval techno or an expert in the field of dirty Togliatti acid house, a connoisseur of baroque ambient. Such people are interesting to read, and there is a place for analysis here, because there is a framework of style - and you can build on them.

American video blog that talks about music journalism

Music critic of the publication "Kommersant"

“This is when a person who has never heard any music before and who does not own any musical instruments describes his feelings from the piece he listened to.”

Chief editor of the public "Afisha-Shit"

“Music criticism is an attempt to help the listener understand his attitude to what he heard. The saviors are people who think they understand music. To me, this is a binary phenomenon that exists in the form of science and art. In the first case, this is an analysis from a professional point of view, an assessment of the production work, originality, a view from the technical side of the issue. In the second case, criticism interprets music, draws conclusions, conclusions, describes the atmosphere and reveals its soul. In our flourishing East, there is not enough professional music criticism. It certainly exists, but the choice is almost non-existent. This is a telephone wire between the stage and the hall - the more reliable it is, the faster the culture will develop. And it seems that when we talk about music criticism, we mean something objective, but in any case, this is a rotten bazaar. The boys from the next entrance like Vitya AK, the hipsters like Oleg Legky. That is why the main criterion will always remain "high" or "not high". Music criticism can only be fully objective from the point of view of the music business. Then the main criterion is the loot. It either exists or it doesn't. It is a fact".


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