What dance does the suite end with? Clavier suite

Chapter 1. Clavier suites by J.S. Bach: to the problem of the genre archetype

Chapter 2. Suite of the 19th century

Essay 1. "New Romantic Suite" by R. Schumann

Essay 2. "Farewell to St. Petersburg" M.I. Glinka - the first Russian vocal suite

Essay 3. Suite dramaturgy by M.P. Mussorgsky and A.P. Borodin

Essay 4. Two "oriental tales" N.A. Rimsky-Korsakov

Essay 5. The theme of wandering in the suite works of P.I. Tchaikovsky

Essay 6. Personal and conciliar in S.V. Rachmaninov

Essay 7. "Peer Gynt" by E. Grieg (suites from music to Ibsen's drama)

Chapter 3. Suite in Russian Music of the 20th Century

Essay 8. The evolution of D.D. Shostakovich

Essay 9. Instrumental, chamber-vocal and choral suites

G.V. Sviridova

Introduction to the thesis (part of the abstract) on the theme "Suite: Semantic-Dramaturgical and Historical Aspects of Research"

In our time, when there has been a tendency to revise the established true concepts, well-known styles and genres, there is a need to take a slightly different perspective on one of the longest developing genres with an unusually rich tradition in the art of music, the suite. We consider the suite as an integral phenomenon, where each part, with all its self-sufficiency, plays an important dramatic role.

In most works, a new approach to the suite, overcoming the disparity in the perception of parts, can be traced through the example of individual cycles. Therefore, consideration of the semantic-dramatic unity of the suite in a broader context - at the level of many cycles of several national cultures- seems new and very relevant.

The goal of the dissertation work follows from the problem posed - to identify the invariant structure of the suite genre or its "structural-semantic invariant" (definition by M. Aranovsky). Aspectization of the research, indicated in the title of the dissertation, puts forward the following tasks:

Disclosure of the compositional features of suite cycles with subsequent generalization in a historical perspective; deciphering the logic of connecting the parts of the suite by identifying typological constants.

The material of the study is a “multiple object” (D. Likhachev’s definition): suites of the early 18th, 19th and 20th centuries, different in nationality (German, Russian, Norwegian) and personalities. The Western European suite is represented by the work of I.S. Bach, R. Schumann, E. Grieg, and the Russian suite - the works of M.I. Glinka, M.P. Mussorgsky, P.I. Tchaikovsky, A.P. Borodina, N.A. Rimsky-Korsakov, S.V. Rachmaninov, D.D. Shostakovich and G.V. Sviridov. The wide temporal and spatial framework of the study allows one to penetrate into the deep essence of the phenomenon, since, as M. Bakhtin’s statement, which has already become an aphorism, says, “... any entry into the sphere of meanings is made only through the gates of chronotopes” (101, p. 290).

The scientific knowledge about the suite is vast and multidimensional. At the present stage of development of musicology, it becomes very important to distinguish between external and internal forms (definitions by I. Barsova), analytical-grammatical and intonation (definitions by V. Medushevsky). As an analytical-grammatical form, as special kind The suite has received an excellent description in the studies of B. Asafiev (3,136,137), V. Bobrovsky (4,5,32), B. Yavorsky (27), in the works on the analysis of musical forms JI. Mazel (8), S. Skrebkov (18), I. Sposobina (21), V. Zukkerman (24.25).

The historical perspective of the study of the suite is widely covered both in domestic and foreign publications. V. Rabei (65), A. Petrash (55), I. Yampolsky (75), F. Blume (216), A. Milner (221) turn to her background. The essay by T. Norlind (223) presents the evolution of the lute suite of France, Italy and Germany from the beginning of the 16th to the middle of the 18th centuries. The author pays much attention to the process of formation of the main dance framework of the suite. G. Altman in the article "Dance Forms and Suite" (214) writes about the origin of the suite from peasant folk music. T. Baranova, analyzing the dance music of the Renaissance, believes that "... in addition to the ball with its traditional sequence of dances, ballet and a masquerade procession could serve as a prototype for an instrumental suite" (31, p. 34). The compositional and thematic features of the suites of the English virginalists are considered by T. Oganova in her dissertation research “English virginal music: problems of the formation of instrumental thinking” (175).

Suite cycle formation of the Baroque is covered in the works of T. Livanova (48.49), M. Druskin (36), K. Rosenshild (67). In the monograph "Musical form as a process" B. Asafiev (3) offers a comparative analysis

French, English and orchestral suites by J.S. Bach in order to show the various manifestations of contrast as the fundamental core of the suite composition. Of the foreign publications on the history of the German suite, one should single out the studies of K. Nef (222) and G. Riemann (224). G. Beck goes beyond one national-historical variety, offering a panorama of the development of the baroque suite in major European countries (215). At the same time, the author reveals specific features genre in different regions. He not only explores in detail the origins of the formation of the suite, but also makes a brief overview of the European suite of the 19th and 20th centuries. An analysis of the old and new romantic suite is presented in the works of JL Mazel (8), V. Bobrovsky (5), T. Popova (63). Questions of the theory and history of the genre are also touched upon in encyclopedic articles by I. Manukyan (9), Y. Neklyudov (12), D. Fuller (217).

In the historical review of personalities, works on the history of music, the history of pianoforte art, harmony, epistolary material and monographic publications were of great help, among which the monographs by D. Zhitomirsky "Robert Schumann" (195), O. Levasheva “M.I. Glinka" (197), V. Bryantseva "S.V. Rachmaninoff" (189).

If the analytic and grammatical form of the suite demonstrates a pronounced cyclic decentralization, then its internal, intonational form is fraught with a certain integrity, hidden behind external kaleidoscopicity and functioning in depth. The suite has its own “proto-dramaturgy”, which forms a stable semantic framework inherent in concrete historical varieties of the genre that are so dissimilar to each other (whether it is a Bach suite, a new romantic suite, or a suite by Rachmaninoff and Shostakovich). The list of musicological works shows that interest in this topic has always been present.

One of the first to experience the magnetic influence of this problem was B. Yavorsky. In "Bach Suites for Clavier" and (as it turned out thanks to the serious research of V. Nosina), in manuscripts, Yavorsky captures the most interesting factual material concerning both the onto- and phylogeny of the baroque suite. Through the most precise characteristics of the semantic roles of the parts, it makes it possible to reach the conceptual integrity of the suite, which allows us to consider its dramatic model in a broader historical and cultural context.

The next stage in the development of genre theory is represented by the research of T. Livanova. She offers the first theory in Russian musicology cyclic forms. T. Livanova emphasizes the historical aspect of the assessment of suite cycling (49). But an attempt to reveal the dramatic invariant of the suite leads to the context of "symphoniocentrism". As a result, the author states historical role the suites are merely the forerunners of the sonata-symphony cycle, thereby involuntarily extinguishing the proper quality of suite thinking.

Interest in the suite as a self-sufficient system became possible only when musicology mastered cultural method research. One of the notable phenomena of this kind was the article by M. Starcheus “ New life genre tradition” (22), which sheds new light on the problems of the genre. Returning us to the poetics of the Baroque era, the author discovers the principle of enfilade in the structure of the suite, and also focuses on the narrative nature of the genre. Developing M. Bakhtin's idea about the "memory of the genre", M. Starcheus emphasizes that in the perception of the suite, it is not so much the genre ensemble that is important as the author's modality (relation to specific genre signs). As a result, the suite - as a certain type of cultural integrity - begins to be filled with some kind of living content, a specific meaning inherent only to it. However, this meaning in the article is expressed in a very "hieroglyphic" way. The logic of the internal process of the suite remains a mystery, just as a certain internal mechanism of self-movement of the cycle, the dramatic “script” of the suite series, remains behind the scenes.

essential role in an attempt to decipher the immanent logos of the suite, the development of a functional approach to musical form played. V. Bobrovsky considers the connection of parts based on dramatic functions as the leading principle of cyclic forms (4). It is in the functional connection of the parts that the main difference between the suite and the sonata-symphony cycle lies. So, V. Zuckerman sees in the suite a manifestation of unity in plurality, and in the sonata-symphonic cycle - the plurality of unity. According to O. Sokolov, if the principle of subordination of parts operates in the sonata-symphonic cycle, then the suite corresponds to the principle of coordination of parts (20, p.34). V. Bobrovsky singles out a similar functional difference between them: “A suite is the union of a number of contrasting works, a sonata-symphony cycle, on the contrary, the division of a single work into a number of separate works subordinate to the whole (4, p. 181). M. Aranovsky also observes polar tendencies in the interpretation of the considered multi-part cycles: emphasized discreteness in the suite and internally overcome discreteness while maintaining its external features - in the symphony (1).

N. Pikalova, the author of a dissertation research on the theory of the suite, comes to the very important problem of integrating parts into a single musical organism: “The suite cycle differs significantly from the sonata-symphony one, however, not by the absence or insufficiency of unity, but rather by other principles of unity. The factor of unity itself is essential for the suite, because without it the multiplicity would be perceived as chaos, and not as an aesthetically justified diversity” (14, p. 51). N. Pikalova defines a suite as "...a complex genre based on a free multi-component cyclicity, expressed through contrasting parts (models of simple genres), coordinated by a generalizing artistic idea and collectively aimed at embodying the aesthetic value of the diversity of phenomena of reality" (p. 21- 22).

A truly "bestseller" in this area - the interpretation of a sequence of miniatures as a single musical organism - was V. Bobrovsky's article "Analysis of the composition of Mussorgsky's Pictures at an Exhibition" (32), published in 1976. Finding the principle of through development in the mode-intonation sphere, the author comes to the problem of the compositional unity of the cycle. This idea is further developed in the works of A. Merkulov on Schumann's suite cycles (53) and Mussorgsky's Pictures at an Exhibition (52), as well as in the article by E. Ruchyevskaya and N. Kuzmina "The Poem "Departed Rus'" in the context of Sviridov's author's style » (68). In Sviridov's cantata "Night Clouds", T. Maslovskaya observes a complex, "contrasting" relationship of parts, multifaceted connections between them (51). The tendency to perceive suite integrity at the level of modal-intonational and compositional unity opens up new horizons of research, providing an opportunity to touch upon its semantic-dramatic aspect. In this vein, considers children's album» Tchaikovsky A. Kandinsky-Rybnikov (45), relying on the author’s hidden subtext that, in his opinion, exists in the manuscript version of the work.

In general, modern literature on the suite is distinguished by a very diverse approach to the issue of content and compositional unity of the suite cycle. N. Pikalova sees the semantic core of the suite in the idea of ​​a contrasting set, and its artistic image - in the united set of givens. As a result, the suite is a "multiple series of self-valuable givens" (14, p. 62). V. Nosina, developing the ideas of A. Schweitzer, B. Yavorsky, M. Druskin on comparing the types of movement in the suite, believes that the main content of the suites is the analysis of movement: physics and mathematics” (13, p. 96). The genre of the suite, according to the author, provides "... a way of musical comprehension of the idea of ​​movement" (p. 95).

E. Shchelkanovtseva (26) traces the analogy between the six-part cyclic framework of the Suite for solo cello by I.S. Bach and oratory, which also has a clear division into six parts:

Exordium (introduction) - Prelude.

Narratio (narration) - Allemande.

Propositio (proposal) - Courant.

Confutatio (challenging, objection) - Sarabande.

Confirmatio (approval) - Plug-in dances.

Peroratio (conclusion) - Gigue.

A similar parallel, however, with the sonata-symphony cycle, is drawn by V. Rozhnovsky (17). He reveals the similarity of the four main sections of the construction of speech, distinguished in ancient and medieval rhetoric, with the four universal functions of thinking:

Givenness Narratio Homo agens Sonata Allegro

Derivative Propositio Homo sapiens Slow part

Negation Confutatio Homo ludens Minuet

Confirmatio Homo communius Final

According to V. Rozhnovsky, this quadrivium of functions and the main sections of speech construction reflect the universal laws of dialectics and, accordingly, form the conceptual basis of sonata-symphony dramaturgy, but not suite dramaturgy.

E. Shchelkanovtseva's interpretation of the parts of the suite itself is also very problematic and raises some doubts. Thus, the Confutatio section (contestation, objection) rather corresponds not to the sarabande, but to inserted dances, which form a sharp contrast not only in relation to the sarabande, but also to the main dance frame as a whole. In turn, the gigue, undoubtedly, being the final part, is functionally closer to both the Peroratio (conclusion) and Confirmatio (statement) sections.

For all its outward discreteness, dissection1, the suite has a dramatic integrity. As a single artistic organism, according to N. Pikalova, it is designed “... for the cumulative perception of parts in a certain sequence. Within the framework of the suite, only the entire cycle is a complete integrity” (14, p. 49). The concept of dramatic integrity is the prerogative of the inner form of the suite. I. Barsova writes: “To find an inner form means to single out something from the given, which contains the impulse for further transformation (99, p. 106). Exploring the internal structure of the musical genre, M. Aranovsky believes that it determines the immanence of the genre and ensures its stability over time: “The internal structure contains the “genetic code” of the genre, and the fulfillment of the conditions laid down in it ensures the reproduction of the genre in a new text” (2, p. .38).

Research methodology. The suite captivates with its unpredictability and imaginative diversity. Its immanent musical meaning is truly inexhaustible. The versatility of the genre also implies different ways of studying it. Our study proposes a semantic and dramatic analysis of the suite in a historical context. In essence, the historical approach is inseparable from the semantic-dramatic approach, since semantics, as M. Aranovsky emphasizes, is “... a historical phenomenon in the broadest sense of the word, including all aspects related to the specifics and development of culture” (98, p. 319). These two categories complement each other, form a single whole, allowing one to penetrate into the immanent nature of suite self-movement. The foundation for the semantic-dramatic analysis of the suite was:

Functional approach to the musical form of V. Bobrovsky (4);

Study of the structure of the musical genre by M. Aranovsky (2), as well as his "Theses on musical semantics" (98);

1 “The suite cycle has grown from a contrasting-composite form by bringing each of its parts to the level of an independent play” (19, p. 145).

Scientific developments in the theory of composition by B. Asafiev (3), E. Nazaykinsky (11), V. Medushevsky (10), JL Akopyan (97),

The initially chosen textual, semantic approach to the analysis of the suite allows reaching the level of perception of each individual cycle as an integral phenomenon. Further, the “productive” (definition by M. Aranovsky) simultaneous coverage of many suites contributes to the discovery of characteristic, typological features of the suite organization.

The suite is not limited by strict limits, rules; differs from the sonata-symphony cycle by freedom, ease of expression. Irrational by its nature, the suite is connected with the intuitive processes of unconscious thinking, and the code of the unconscious is myth1. Thus, the mentality of the suite provokes special structural norms of the organization, fixed by the mythological ritual.

The structural model of the suite approaches the mythological understanding of space, which, according to Yu. Lotman's description, is "... a set of individual objects that bear their own names" (88, p. 63). The beginning and end of the suite series are very arbitrary, like a mythological text, which is subject to cyclic temporal movement and is conceived as “... some continuously repeating device, synchronized with the cyclic processes of nature” (86, p. 224). But this is only an external analogy, behind which lies a deeper relationship between the two chronotopes: suite and mythological.

Analysis of the sequence of events in the myth allowed Y. Lotman to identify a single mythological invariant: life - death - resurrection (renewal). On a more abstract level, it looks like

1 In our study, we rely on the understanding of myth as a timeless category, as one of the constants of human psychology and thinking. This idea, first expressed in Russian literature by A. Losev and M. Bakhtin, has become extremely relevant in modern mythology (77,79,80,83,97,104,123,171). entry into a closed space1 - exit from it” (86, p. 232). This chain is open in both directions and can multiply infinitely.

Lotman rightly notes that this scheme is stable even in those cases when the direct connection with the world of myth is obviously cut off. On the ground modern culture texts appear that implement the archaic mechanism of myth-making. The mythic-ritual frame turns into something that the reader does not consciously feel and begins to function on a subconscious-intuitive, archetypal level.

The concept of archetype is closely connected with the semantics of the ritual, which actualizes the deepest meanings of existence. The essence of any ritual is the preservation of cosmic order. M. Evzlin believes that the ritual is “archetypal and in many respects similar to the archetypal one. Freeing people from confusion, depression, horror that arise at the time of the most acute crises that cannot be rationally resolved, softening the situation, the ritual allows you to return to your original sources, plunge into your “first infinity”, into your own depth. ”(81, p. 18).

In traditional ritualogy, the transformation of some crisis situation into a new one is interpreted as death - rebirth. Yu. Lotman relies on this scheme when describing the structure of mythological plots. So, the myth has a special type of action associated with the ritual triad basis.

How do the required constants of the mythological action and the compositional units of the suite series correlate with each other?

1. The initial dance couple in the suite corresponds to the binary opposition or mythologeme. It is a "bundle of functional relations" (the definition of K. Levi-Strauss), provoking the emergence of new oppositions on the principle of multiplication, synchronization of everything that exists, has

1 A closed space is a test in the form of illness, death, an initiation rite.

2 Mythologeme is a unit of myth, its "summary", formula, semantic and logical characteristics (83). layered "structure, vertical way of organization. The variant deployment of pair relations in the suite is identical.

2. In the course of dramatic development, a play appears, ambivalent in its semantics, in which the binary opposition is synchronized. It performs the function of mediation, mediation - a mechanism for removing oppositions, resolving fundamental contradictions. It is based on the archetype of giving birth to death, the most ancient mythology of "dying - resurrection". Without rationally explaining the mystery of life and death, myth introduces it through a mystically irrational understanding of death as a transition into another existence, into a new qualitative state.

3. The finale of the suite appears in the meaning of reintegration. This is a symbol of a new level, restoring the integrity of being; harmonization of personality and the world; "... a cathartic feeling of belonging. to the immortal harmony of the Universe" (77, p. 47).

K. Levi-Strauss (84) expresses the model of the mediative process by the following formula: fx(a) : fy(a) = fx(b) : f^y), where the term a is associated with the negative function X, and the term b acts as a mediator between X and a positive function y. Being an intermediary, a mediator, b can also take on the negative function X. The last term fa-i(y) means the annulment of the original state and some additional acquisition resulting from the spiral development. Thus, the mythological model in this formula is reflected through spatial and value inversion. E. Meletinsky projects this formula onto the situation fairy tale: “The initial negative situation - wrecking (x) of the antagonist (a) is overcome by the actions of the hero-mediator (b), capable of negative actions (x) directed at the antagonist (a) not only to neutralize the latter, but also to acquire additional fabulous values ​​in the form of a wonderful reward , marriage with a princess, etc. " (89, p. 87).

The key position of K. Kedrov's mythological and ritual research (82) is the idea of ​​"anthropic inversion", the meaning of which the author deciphers in the following statements:

Buried below, in the earth, will be in heaven. A prisoner in a narrow space will gain the entire universe” (82, p. 87).

In a night conversation, Christ tells Nicodemus that a person must be born twice: once from the flesh, the other from the spirit. Birth from the flesh leads to death, birth from the spirit leads to eternal life” (p. 90).

The folklore act about death and resurrection is the first word spoken by man in the universe. This is a pra-plot, it contains the genetic code of all world literature. Who suggested it to the man? The “genetic code” itself is nature itself” (p. 85).

K. Kedrov elevates the principle of "anthropic inversion" to the rank of a universal category, calling it a metacode. According to the author's definition, this is “... a system of symbols that reflects the unity of man and the cosmos, common for all times in all existing areas of culture. The main patterns of the metacode, its language are formed in the folklore period and remain indestructible throughout the development of literature. Metacode is a single code of being, penetrating the entire metauniverse” (p. 284). The metacode of "anthropic inversion" is aimed at the "deification" of a person through the symbolic "inside" of God, society, the cosmos, which ultimately establishes the harmony of a person and the cosmos, top and bottom, where a person is a "spiritualized cosmos" and the cosmos is a "spiritualized person".

The suite row, provided that it is perceived as an organic, cumulative whole, becomes a structure, moreover, a structure that embodies a certain model, in this case a mythological one. Based on this,

1 According to Yu. Lotman, “the structure is always a model” (113, p. 13). the main method on which the work is based, it is advisable to consider the structural method. “A feature of structural study,” writes Yu. Lotman in “Lectures on Structural Poetics,” is that it does not mean considering individual elements in their isolation or mechanical connection, but determining the relationship of elements to each other and their relationship to the structural whole” (117, p.18).

The defining feature of the structural method is its modeling nature. B. Gasparov deciphers this provision as follows. The process of scientific cognition is understood “as an imposition on the material of some initial conceptual apparatus, in the parameters of which this material is described. This apparatus of description is called a metalanguage. As a result, we are presented not with a direct reflection of the object, but with a certain interpretation of it, a certain aspect within the given parameters and in abstraction from countless other properties of it, that is, a model of this object” (105, p. 42). The statement of the modeling approach has an important consequence: “The research apparatus, separating from the object of description, being once built, gets in the future the possibility of application to other objects, that is, the possibility of universalization” (p. 43). With regard to the humanities, Yu. Lotman makes an important correction in the definition of this method, calling it structural-semiotic.

The work also uses stylistic, descriptive, comparative methods of analysis. Along with general scientific and musicological analytical techniques, the developments of a modern complex humanities, namely general art criticism, philosophy, literary criticism, mythology, ritualogy, cultural studies.

The scientific novelty of the study is determined by the mythological structuring of the immanent logic of the suite self-movement, the use of the methodology of mythoanalysis to substantiate the specifics of the genre archetype of the suite. Such a perspective allows revealing the integrity of suite compositions, as well as discovering new semantic dimensions of music of different cultures and styles using the suite as an example.

As a working hypothesis, the idea of ​​the semantic-dramatic unity of the suite for a variety of artistic manifestations, regardless of time, nationality and individuality of the composer, was put forward.

The complexity of this rather problematic issue dictates the need for a consistent consideration of it from two perspectives: theoretical and historical.

The first chapter includes the main theoretical provisions of the topic, the key terminological apparatus, focuses on the problem of the genre archetype. It was found in the clavier suites of J.S. Bach (French, English Suites and Partitas). The choice of the suites of this composer as a structural and semantic basis is explained not only by the fact that the flourishing of the baroque suite, where it received its ingenious embodiment, is connected with his clavier work, but also because among the elegant “fireworks” of the suites of the baroque era, it is in Bach’s cyclic formation that the a certain sequence of basic dances, which makes it possible to reveal the dramatic logic of suite self-movement.

The second and third chapters have a diachronic orientation. They are devoted not so much to the analysis of the most striking precedents of suites in music of the 19th and XX centuries, how much the desire to realize the dynamics of the development of the suite genre. Historical types suites are cultural and stylistic interpretations of its semantic core, which is what we are trying to consider in each individual essay.

In the era of classicism, the suite fades into the background. In the 19th century, its renaissance begins, it again finds itself at the forefront. V. Medushevsky associates such stylistic fluctuations with the dialogue of the right and left hemisphere vision of life. He notes that the variable dominance in the culture of the mechanisms of right and left hemisphere thinking is associated with reciprocal (mutual) inhibition, when each of the hemispheres slows down the other. The intonation side of the form is rooted in the right hemisphere. It performs simultaneous syntheses. The left hemisphere - analytical - is responsible for the awareness of temporal processes (10). The suite, with its inherent openness of form, variegation and plurality of equivalent elements, gravitates towards the right-brain mechanism of thinking that prevailed in the times of baroque and romanticism. Moreover, according to D. Kirnarskaya, “...according to the data of neuropsychology, the right hemisphere.is associated with the archaic and childish way of thinking, the roots of right hemisphere thinking go back to the most ancient layers of the mental. Speaking about the features of the right brain, neuropsychologists call it “myth-creating” and archaic” (108, p. 39).

The second chapter is devoted to the 19th century suite. The romantic suite is represented by the work of R. Schumann (first essay), without which it is completely unthinkable to consider this stylistic variety of the genre and, in general, the suite of the 19th century. Semantic and Dramaturgical Analysis of Some of the Composer's Cycles

Poet's Love”, “Children's Scenes”, “Forest Scenes”, “Carnival”, “Davidsbündler Dances”, “Humoresque”) reveals the characteristic features of his suite thinking.

Schumann's influence on the development of the 19th century suite is boundless. Continuity is clearly visible in Russian music. Among the works devoted to this problem, it is worth highlighting the articles by G. Golovinsky "Robert Schumann and Russian Music of the 19th Century" (153), M. Frolova "Tchaikovsky and Schumann" (182), an essay on Schumann by V. Konen (164). Schumann's suite creativity is not just one of the important sources that nourished the Russian suite, but its invisible spiritual companion, not only throughout the 19th, but also the 20th century.

The Russian suite of the 19th century, as a young genre, is of interest from the point of view of original forms of assimilation of Western European experience in the form of Schumann's new romantic suite. Having absorbed its influence, Russian composers very peculiarly implemented the logic of suite self-movement in their work. The suite principle of shaping is much closer to Russian culture than the sonata one. The lush, varied flowering of the Russian suite of the 19th century expands the analytical space in the structure of the dissertation research (features 2-7).

In the second essay, the vocal cycle “Farewell to St. Petersburg” by M.I. Glinka. The next two essays are devoted to the composers of the new Russian school represented by M.P. Mussorgsky, A.P. Borodin and N.A. Rimsky-Korsakov. The third essay analyzes the suite dramaturgy of Mussorgsky (“Pictures at an Exhibition”, “Songs and Dances of Death”) and Borodin (Little Suite for Piano). The fourth essay is about Rimsky-Korsakov's suites based on the fairy-tale story "Antar" and "Scheherazade".

The fifth and sixth essays present the composers of the Moscow school: the suite works of P.I. Tchaikovsky

The Seasons”, “Children's Album”, First, Second, Third Orchestral Suites, Serenade for String Orchestra, suite from the ballet The Nutcracker), and Suites for two pianos by S.V. Rachmaninov.

A strange turn at first glance in the seventh, final essay of the second chapter to the Norwegian suite "Peer Gynt" by E. Grieg, upon closer examination, turns out to be very logical. For all their originality and unique national image, the Peer Gynt suite cycles concentrated the experience of Western European and Russian cultures.

They are separated from Schumann's suites by a fairly significant time period, while in relation to individual Tchaikovsky suites,

Rimsky-Korsakov and Rachmaninoff, this phenomenon arose in parallel.

The three national-cultural traditions considered in the second chapter (German, Russian, Norwegian) have a lot in common and are interconnected by deep, archetypal roots.

The 20th century further expands the field for analysis. Respecting the framework of the dissertation research, in the third chapter it was necessary to make restrictions: spatial (Russian music) and temporal (1920-beginning

80s)1. The choice deliberately fell on the two largest figures in Russian music - these are the Teacher and the Student, D.D. Shostakovich and

G.V. Sviridov, composers with the opposite type of attitude:

Shostakovich - with a heightened sense of time, drama, and Sviridov - with an epic generalization of life's collisions, a sense of time as a category of the Eternal.

The eighth essay presents the evolution of Shostakovich's suite work:

Aphorisms”, “From Jewish Folk Poetry”, “Seven Poems by A. Blok”, “Six Poems by M. Tsvetaeva”, Suite for Bass and Piano to Words by Michelangelo.

The ninth essay analyzes the cycles of G.V. Sviridova:

Instrumental (Partitas for piano, Musical illustrations for the story by A.S. Pushkin "The Snowstorm");

Chamber-vocal ("Six poems to the words of A.S. Pushkin",

Songs to the words of R. Burns”, “Departed Rus'” to the words of S. Yesenin);

1 Chamber instrumental suite in Russian Soviet music 60s - the first half of the 80s was studied in the candidate's dissertation by N. Pikalova (14).

Choral ("Kursk songs",

Pushkin vein>, "Night Clouds",

Four choirs from the cycle "Songs of Timelessness", "Ladoga").

Sviridov's chamber-vocal and choral cycles can rightly be called suites, since, as analysis shows, they have the characteristic attributes of this genre.

The practical significance of the work. The results of the study can be used in courses in the history of music, the analysis of musical forms, the history of performing arts and in performing practice. The scientific provisions of the work can serve as a basis for further research in the field of the suite genre.

Approbation of the research results. The dissertation materials were repeatedly discussed at meetings of the Department of Music History of the Russian Academy of Music. Gnesins. They are stated in a number of publications, as well as in speeches at two scientific and practical conferences: “ Musical education in the context of culture”, RAM im. Gnesinykh, 1996 (report: "Mythological code as one of the methods of musicological analysis on the example of J.S. Bach's clavier suites"), a conference organized by the E. Grieg Society in the Russian Academy of Sciences. Gnesins, 1997 (report: “Suites “Peer Gynt” by E. Grieg”). These works were used in teaching practice in the course of the history of Russian and foreign music for students of foreign faculty. Lectures were given on the analysis of musical forms to teachers of the Department of Music Theory music school them. I.S. Palantay, Yoshkar-Ola, as well as students of the ITC faculty of the RAM. Gnesins.

Dissertation conclusion on the topic "Musical Art", Masliy, Svetlana Yurievna

Conclusion

Suite - historically developing phenomenon, cardiogram of the world-feeling, understanding of the world. Being a sign of the socio-cultural perception of the world, it has a mobile, flexible character; is enriched with new content, while acting in the most diverse grammatical roles. Composers of the 19th and 20th centuries responded intuitively universal principles suite formations that have developed in Baroque art.

Analysis of many suites of different eras, styles, national schools and personalium made it possible to reveal a structural-semantic invariant. It consists in the polyphonic conjugation of two types of thinking (conscious and unconscious, rational-discrete and continual-mythological), two forms (external and internal, analytic-grammatical and intonational), two cultures: the “Old” time, the unchanging (code of mythology) and "New", giving rise to historical varieties of the suite with a constant renewal of the genre and under the influence of the socio-cultural conditions of a particular era. How does the external, grammatical plot, a discrete series of self-valuable givens, change?

If the main frame of Bach's suites is represented by dances, then the genre image of the suites of the 19th and 20th centuries is undergoing significant changes. The rejection of the predominance of dance parts leads to the perception of the suite as a collection of genre and everyday signs of culture. For example, the genre kaleidoscope of “Pictures at an Exhibition” by Mussorgsky, “Children’s Album” by Tchaikovsky, “Peer Gynt” by Grieg, “Snowstorms” by Sviridov was born by the theme of wandering, and Tchaikovsky’s Orchestral Suites, “Aphorisms” by Shostakovich, Partita Sviridov are an excursion into the history of culture . The multiple series of diverse genre sketches in the cycles Farewell to Petersburg by Glinka, Songs and Dances of Death by Mussorgsky, From Jewish Folk Poetry by Shostakovich, and Songs to Words by R. Burns by Sviridov allow us to consider these compositions as vocal suites.

The figurative relations of the romantic suite of the 19th century go back to the ps and -chological poles of the introverted and extraverted

I * » I f g o. This dyad becomes the artistic dominant of Schumann's worldview, and in Tchaikovsky's The Four Seasons cycle it serves as the dramatic core of the composition. In the works of Rachmaninoff and Sviridov, it is refracted in a lyric-epic mode. Being the initial binary opposition, it gives rise to a special type of setting in suite dramaturgy, associated with the process of introversion (Tchaikovsky's Four Seasons, Rachmaninov's First Suite, Sviridov's Night Clouds).

The last three suites by D. Shostakovich are a new type of suite - confessional-monologic. Introverted and extroverted images flicker in a symbolic duality. A discrete series of self-valuable givens is genre abstracted: symbols, philosophical categories, lyrical revelations, reflection, meditative contemplation - all this reflects various psychological states, plunging both into the universal spheres of being and into the secrets of the subconscious, into the world of the unknown. In Sviridov's cycle "Departed Rus'", the confessional-monologic beginning appears under the powerful, majestic vault of the epic.

The suite is ontological in nature, in contrast to the "epistemology" of the sonata-symphonic cycle. In this perspective, the suite and the symphony are comprehended as two correlative categories. The dramaturgy of the final goal inherent in the sonata-symphony cycle presupposes development for the sake of the result. Its procedural-dynamic nature is associated with causality. Each functional stage is conditioned by the previous one and prepares the logic after-! blowing. Suite dramaturgy, with its mythological and ritual basis rooted in the universal constants of the sphere of the unconscious, is based on other relations: “In the mythological triadic structure, the last phase does not coincide with the category of dialectical synthesis. .Mythology is alien to the quality of self-development, qualitative growth from internal contradictions. The paradoxical reunion of differently directed principles occurs as a leap after a series of repetitions. Metamorphosis predominates over qualitative development; buildup and summation over synthesis and integration, repetition over dynamization, contrast over conflict” (83, p. 33).

Suite and symphony are two major conceptual genres that are based on diametrically opposed principles of worldview and their corresponding structural foundations: multi-centered - centered, open - closed, etc. Practically in all suites the same model operates with different variants. Let us consider the features of the three-stage dramaturgical development of the suite from a synchronic perspective.

The results of the analysis of suite cycles showed that one of the main types of binary structuring is the interaction of two forms of thinking: continual and discrete, serious and profaning, and, accordingly, two genre spheres: baroque and divertissement introduction and fugue (waltz, divertissement, prelude, overture ) march, intermezzo)

In the zone of mediation, there is a convergence of the initial binary opposition. “Knightly Romance” incorporates the figurative semantics of the first two numbers of the cycle - “Who is she and where is she” and “Jewish song” (Glinka “Farewell to Petersburg”), and in “Night chants” the semantic plot of “Songs about love” and "Balalaiki" (Sviridov "Ladoga"). In the chorus "The hour hand is approaching midnight", the close contact of the images of life and death gives rise to a tragic symbol of the passing time (Sviridov "Night Clouds"). The ultimate convergence of the real and the unreal, healthy and sick, life and death (Mussorgsky's "Songs and Dances of Death") in Shostakovich's suite "Six Poems by M. Tsvetaeva" leads to a dialogue with oneself, embodying the tragic situation of a split personality ("Hamlet's Dialogue with Conscience"). ").

Let us recall the examples of modal-intonational mediation:

Theme "Walks" in "Pictures at an Exhibition" by Mussorgsky;

The theme of "Truth" in Shostakovich's "Suite on the Words of Michelangelo";

The cis tone is a harmonic intermediary between the mediative parts "Winter" and "The Good Life" in Shostakovich's cycle "From Jewish Folk Poetry".

Let us list the characteristic signs of Schumann's mediation, which are very specifically refracted in the suites of Russian composers.

1. Romantic mediation is presented in two genres:

"Dreams"; barcarolle in Glinka's The Blues Fell Asleep ("Farewell to Petersburg"), in Borodin's "Dreams" ("Little Suite"), in Tchaikovsky's plays "June. Barcarolle (The Four Seasons) and Sweet Dream (Children's Album).

The lullaby reflects the ambivalent world of the real and the unreal, expressed in contrasting thematics - " Lullaby» Glinka (Farewell to Petersburg), Tchaikovsky's Dreams of a Child (Second Suite), Shostakovich's Lullaby (From Jewish Folk Poetry).

2. Carnival opposition of masculine and feminine in the festive atmosphere of the ball: two Mazurkas in Borodin's "Little Suite", Invétsia and Intermezzo in Sviridov's Partita e-moll.

3. The mythology of recognition in the works of Mussorgsky and Shostakovich is acutely social, angrily accusatory in nature (the final lines of “Songs and Dances of Death”; “The Poet and the Tsar” - “No, the drum beat” in the cycle “Six poems by M. Tsvetaeva”) . In the suite "Peer Gynt" by Grieg, she transfers the action from the ritual sphere to real world("The Return of Peer Gynt").

The way out of the "tunnel" is connected with the expansion of space, the sound universe through the gradual layering of voices, compaction of the texture. There is a "specialization" of time, that is, the translation of time into space, or immersion in the Eternal. In "Icon" (Sviridov's "Songs of Timelessness") - this is spiritual contemplation, in the code of the finale of "Scheherazade" by Rimsky-Korsakov - synchronization of the main thematic triad, personifying catharsis.

Open endings are written in variational form, often have a chorus-chorus structure. Endless movement is symbolized by the genres of fugue (Partita e-moll by Sviridov), tarantella (Rakhmaninov's Second Suite), as well as the image of the road (Glinka "Farewell to Petersburg", Sviridov "Cycle on the words of A. S. Pushkin" and "Snowstorm"). A peculiar sign of the "open" finale in the suites of the 20th century is the absence of a final cadenza:

Shostakovich "Immortality" ("Suite on the words of Michelangelo"), Sviridov "Beard" ("Ladoga").

Note that the mythological model is refracted not only in the context of the entire work, but also at the micro level, namely within the framework of the final movement (Tchaikovsky's Third Suite, Sviridov's "Night Clouds") and within individual microcycles:

Tchaikovsky "The Seasons" (in each microcycle), Tchaikovsky "Children's Album" (second microcycle),

Shostakovich "Aphorisms" (first microcycle), Sviridov "Departed Rus'" (first microcycle).

The plot-dramatic plot of the Russian suite reflects as a daily calendar myth (“Children’s Album” and “The Nutcracker” by Tchaikovsky, Rachmaninov’s First Suite, “Aphorisms”, “Seven Poems by A. Blok” and “Suite on the Words of Michelangelo” by Shostakovich, “Pushkin’s Wreath” and "Night Clouds" by Sviridov), as well as annual ("The Four Seasons" by Tchaikovsky, "From Jewish Folk Poetry" by Shostakovich, "Snowstorm" by Sviridov).

An analysis of the suite dramaturgy of the 19th and 20th centuries shows that there are successive connections between the suites of Russian composers, semantic-co-dramatic overlaps. Let's give some examples.

1. The playful, conditionally theatrical world is associated with the differentiation of life and the stage, the distance of the author from the object (Tchaikovsky's Orchestral Suites; "Aphorisms", the final triad of the cycle "From Jewish Folk Poetry" by Shostakovich; "Balaganchik" from "Night Clouds" by Sviridov). The Maccabric line, which forms the dramatic basis of the Songs and Dances of Death, is continued in the second microcycle of the Aphorisms, as well as in the Song of Need (From Jewish Folk Poetry),

2. Cosmogonic dissolution in the universal, in the primordial element of nature, the cosmos (codes of the First and Second Suites of Tchaikovsky; the finals of Sviridov's cycles "Kursk Songs", "Pushkin's Wreath" and "Ladoga").

3. The image of the Motherland, bell-shaped Rus' in the finale (“Pictures at an Exhibition” by Mussorgsky, the First Suite by Rachmaninoff, Partita f-moll and “Departed Rus'” by Sviridov).

4. The image of the night in the final as peace, bliss, harmony of the Universe - a lyrical interpretation of the idea of ​​unity:

Borodin "Nocturne" ("Little Suite"), Shostakovich "Music" ("Seven Poems by A. Blok").

5. The motif of the feast:

Glinka. Finale "Farewell to St. Petersburg, Sviridov" Greek feast "(" Pushkin's wreath ").

6. The motive of farewell plays an important role in the cycle “Farewell to Petersburg” by Glinka and in the suite work of Sviridov:

Premonition ”(A cycle on the words of A.S. Pushkin),“ Farewell ”(“ Songs to the words of R. Burns ”).

In the cycle "Departed Rus'" ("Autumn Style"), a mournful lyrical farewell is connected with the tragic semantics of autumn as the end of a life's journey. In the mirror reprise of "The Snowstorm", the atmosphere of farewell creates the effect of gradual distancing, leaving. ♦*

Completion of this study, like any scientific work, is conditional. The attitude to the suite as an integral phenomenon highlighting a certain genre invariant is a rather problematic phenomenon and is still at the initial stage of development. Despite the fact that an invariant model is surprisingly revealed in the deep basis of suite dramaturgy, each suite captivates with its mysterious originality, sometimes completely unpredictable logic of development, which provides fertile ground for its further research. In order to identify the most general patterns of the semantic and dramatic development of the suite, we turned to artistic examples that were already established. Suite analysis in chronological order showed that the mechanism of myth-making also operates at the macro level, in the context of a certain era, making interesting additions to the musical characteristics of Russian culture of the 19th and 20th centuries, to its periodization.

Summarizing the results of the study, we outline its prospects. First of all, it is necessary to present a more complete picture of suite cycling in Russian music of the 19th and 20th centuries, expanding the circle of personalities, and pay special attention to the suite in modern music: what is the cyclical nature of the suite, and whether its semantic-dramatic basis is preserved in conditions when habitual genre formations are collapsing. The intra-genre typology of the modern suite, which is very diverse in stylistic terms, can open up new facets of studying the problem.

An extraordinarily interesting area of ​​analysis is the "theatrical" suites from ballets, from music to plays and films. We did not set ourselves the goal of exploring this huge analytical layer in detail, therefore this genre variety is represented in the work by only three works: Suite from the ballet The Nutcracker by Tchaikovsky, Suites by Grieg from the music for Ibsen's drama Peer Gynt, and Musical illustrations for Pushkin's story "Snowstorm" Sviridov.

Relying on the plot plot of a musical performance, the suite cycle, as a rule, has its own logic of dramatic development, highlighting the universal mythological model.

It is necessary to consider the features of the functioning of the mythological code in the stylization suites.

The object of deep and close study is the process of introducing suite features into the sonata-symphony cycle, observed already in the 19th century (Borodin's Second Quartet, Tchaikovsky's Third and Sixth Symphonies) and especially in the 20th century (Taneev's piano quintet, Schnittke's quintet, 11th, 15 quartets, 8th, 13th symphonies of Shostakovich).

The panorama of the historical overview of the suite genre will be enriched by a journey into the world of the Western European suite, a study of various national suites in their historical development. Thus, the French baroque suite rejects a stable sequence of dances. This leaves an imprint on its semantic-dramatic basis, which differs from the German suite and is built according to other principles that require further research.

The study of the suite as a genre form is inexhaustible. This genre is represented by the richest musical material. Turning to the suite gives the composer a sense of freedom, does not constrain any restrictions and rules, provides unique opportunities for self-expression and, as a result, harmonizes the creative person, plunging into the realm of intuition, into the unknown-beautiful world of the subconscious, into the greatest mystery of the soul and spirit.

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Suite (from the French word suite, literally - a series, sequence) - a cyclic instrumental work, consisting of several independent pieces, which is characterized by relative freedom in the number, order and method of combining parts, the presence of a genre-everyday basis or program design.

As an independent genre, the suite was formed in the 16th century in Western Europe (Italy, France). The term "suite" originally meant a cycle of several pieces of different character, originally performed on the lute; penetrated other countries in the XVII - XVIII centuries. Currently, the term "suite" is a genre concept that has historically different content, and is used to distinguish the suite from other cyclical genres (sonata, concerto, symphony, etc.).

Artistic peaks in the suite genre were reached by J.S. Bach (French and English suites, partitas for clavier, for violin and cello solo) and G.F. Handel (17 clavier suites). In the work of J. B. Lully, J. S. Bach, G. F. Handel, G. F. Telemann, orchestral suites, more often called overtures, are widespread. Suites for harpsichord by French composers (J. Chambonière, F. Couperin, J. F. Rameau) are collections of genre and landscape musical sketches (up to 20 pieces and more in a suite).

From the second half of the 18th century, the suite was replaced by other genres, and, with the advent of classicism, it faded into the background. In the 19th century, the renaissance of the suite begins; she is in demand again. The romantic suite is represented mainly by the work of R. Schumann, without which it is completely unthinkable to consider this stylistic variety of the genre and, in general, the suite of the 19th century. Representatives of the Russian piano school (M.P. Mussorgsky) also turned to the genre of the suite. Suite cycles can also be found in the work of modern composers (A.G. Schnittke).

This work focuses on such a phenomenon as an old suite; on its formation and genre fundamental principle of the main components of the numbers of the cycle. The performer must remember that a suite is not only an ensemble of various numbers, but also a genre-accurate presentation of each dance within a certain style. Being a holistic phenomenon, each part of the suite, with all its self-sufficiency, plays an important dramatic role. This is the main feature of this genre.

The defining role of dance

The era of the Renaissance (XIII-XVI centuries), in the history of European culture, marked the onset of the so-called New Age. It is important for us that, as an epoch of European history, the Renaissance became self-determined, first of all, in the field of artistic creativity.

It is difficult to overestimate the enormous and progressive role of folk traditions, which had such a fruitful influence on all types and genres of the musical art of the Renaissance; including dance genres. So, according to T. Livanova "folk dance in the Renaissance significantly updated European musical art, poured inexhaustible vital energy into it".

The dances of Spain (Pavane, Sarabande), England (Gige), France (Courante, Minuet, Gavotte, Burre), Germany (Allemande) were very popular at that time. For beginner musicians who perform little early music, these genres remain little explored. In the course of this work, I will briefly characterize the main dances included in the classical suite and give them their distinctive characteristics.

It should be noted that the rich heritage of folk dance music was not perceived passively by composers - it was creatively processed. Composers did not just use dance genres - they absorbed the intonation structure, compositional features of folk dances into their work. At the same time, they sought to recreate their own, individual attitude to these genres.

In the 16th, 17th, and most of the 18th centuries, dance dominated not only as an art in itself—that is, the ability to move with dignity, grace, and nobility—but also as a link to other arts, especially music. Dancing art was considered very serious, worthy of the interest awakened in it, even among philosophers and priests. There is evidence that, forgetting about the grandeur and pomp of the Catholic Church, Cardinal Richelieu performed entresha and pirouettes in front of Anne of Austria in a grotesque clown outfit, decorated with small bells.

In the 17th century, dance began to play an unprecedentedly important role, both social and political. At this time, the formation of etiquette as a social phenomenon took place. The dances best illustrated the ubiquity of accepted rules of conduct. The performance of each dance was associated with the exact fulfillment of a number of mandatory requirements related only to a particular dance.

During the reign of Louis XIV at the French court, it was fashionable to recreate folk dances - rough and colorful. The folk and everyday dance of France in the 16th-17th centuries played an exceptionally large role in the development ballet theater and stage dance. The choreography of opera and ballet performances of the 16th, 17th and early 18th centuries consisted of the same dances that the court society performed at balls and festivities. Only in late XVII I century there is a distinction between domestic and stage dances.

The greatest achievement of the Renaissance is the creation instrumental cycle. The earliest examples of such cycles were presented in variations, suites and partitas. The common terminology should be clear. Suite- the French word - means "sequence" (meaning - parts of the cycle), corresponds to the Italian " partita". The first name - suite has been used since the middle of the 17th century; the second name - partita - has been fixed since the beginning of the same century. There is also a third, French designation - “ ordre"("set", "order" of plays), introduced by Couperin. However, this term is not widely used.

Thus, in the XVII-XVIII centuries, suites (or partitas) are called cycles of lute, and later clavier and orchestral dance pieces, which contrasted in tempo, meter, rhythmic pattern and were united by a common tonality, less often by intonation kinship. Earlier, in the 15th-16th centuries, the prototype of the suite was a series of three or more dances (for various instruments) that accompanied court processions and ceremonies.

At the initial stage of its development, the music of the suite had an applied character - they danced to it. But for the development of the dramaturgy of the suite cycle, a certain removal from everyday dances was required. From this time begins classical period of the dance suite. The most typical basis for the dance suite was the set of dances that developed in the suites of I.Ya. Froberger:

allemande - chime - sarabande - jig.

Each of these dances has its own history of origin, its own unique distinctive features. Let me remind you brief description and the origin of the principal dances of the suite.

ü Allemande(from French allemande, literally - german; danse allemandegerman dance) - old dance German descent. As a court dance, the allemande appeared in England, France and the Netherlands in the middle of the 16th century. The meter is two-part, the tempo is moderate, the melody is smooth. Usually consisted of two, sometimes three or four parts. In the 17th century, the allemande entered the solo (lute harpsichord and others) and orchestral suites as the 1st movement, becoming a solemn introductory piece. Over the course of several centuries, his music has undergone significant changes. On the whole, the melodic allemande has always had a symmetrical structure, a small range, and a smooth roundness.

Courant(from French courtante, literally - running) is a court dance of Italian origin. It became widespread at the turn of the 16th-17th centuries. Originally had a musical size 2/4, dotted rhythm; they danced it together with a slight hop as they passed around the hall, the gentleman held the lady by the hand. It would seem that this is quite simple, but serious enough preparation was required for the chime to be a noble dance with beautiful gestures and correct proportionate movements of the legs, and not just an ordinary example of walking around the hall. In this ability to “walk” (the verb “walk” was used even more often) was the secret of the chime, which was the ancestor of many other dances. As musicologists note, initially, the chimes were performed with a jump, later - little separated from the ground. Whoever danced the chimes well, all other dances seemed easy to him: the chimes were considered the grammatical basis of dance art. In the 17th century in Paris, a dance academy developed a chime, which became the prototype of the minuet, which later replaced its ancestor. In instrumental music, the chimes survived until the first half of the 18th century (suites by Bach and Handel).

ü Sarabande(from Spanish - sacrabanda, literally - procession). A solemnly concentrated mournful dance that originated in Spain as a church rite with a shroud, performed by a procession in a church in a circle. Later, the sarabande began to be compared with the burial rite of the deceased.

ü Gigue(from English jig; literally - dance) is a fast old folk dance of Celtic origin. An early feature dance was that the dancers only moved their legs; blows were made with the toes and heels of the feet, while the upper part of the body remained motionless. Perhaps that is why the gigue was considered the dance of English sailors. During the sailing on the ship, when they were taken on deck to air out and stretch, they tapped and shuffled their feet on the floor, beat the rhythm, striking with their palms and sang songs. However, as will be discussed below, there is another opinion about the origin of this dance. Instrumental pieces under this name are already found in the 16th century. In the 17th century, the dance became popular in Western Europe. In the lute music of France in the 17th century, the gigue in 4-beat meter became widespread. In different countries, in the work of different composers, the jig acquired a variety of shapes and sizes - 2-beat, 3-beat, 4-beat.

It should be noted that some dance genres have been significantly transformed precisely in the clavier suite. For example, the gigue, as part of a suite, was rather large; as a dance, it consisted of two eight-bar repeated sentences.

There was no reason to limit the suites to four dances and forbid the addition of new ones. Different countries approached the use of the suite's composite numbers in different ways. Italian composers retained only the size and rhythm of the dance, not caring about its original character. The French were stricter in this regard and considered it necessary to preserve the rhythmic features of each dance form.

J.S. Bach goes even further in his suites: he gives each of the main dance pieces a distinct musical individuality. So, in the allemande, he conveys a full of strength, calm movement; in the chimes - moderate haste, in which dignity and grace are combined; his saraband is an image of a stately solemn procession; in the gigue, the freest form, a fantasy-filled movement dominates. Bach created the highest art from the suite form, without violating the old principle of combining dances.


Dramaturgy of the cycle

Already in the early samples, in the formation of the dramaturgy of the suite, attention is focused on the main reference points - the foundations of the cycle. To do this, composers use a more in-depth development of musical images of dance, which serve to convey various shades of a person's state of mind.

Everyday prototypes of folk dance are poeticized, refracted through the prism of the artist's life perception. So, F. Couperin, according to B. L. Yavorsky, gave in his suites "a kind of lively sounding newspaper of court topical events and a description of the heroes of the day". This had a theatrical influence, it was planned to move away from the outward manifestations of dance movements to the program of the suite. Gradually, the dance movements in the suite are completely abstracted.

The form of the suite also changes significantly. The compositional basis of the early classical suite was characterized by the method of motive-variation writing. First, it is based on the so-called "paired dances" - the allemande and the chimes. Later, the third dance, the sarabande, was introduced into the suite, which meant the emergence of a new for that time principle of shaping - closed, reprise. The sarabande was often followed by dances close to it in structure: minuet, gavotte, bourre and others. In addition, an antithesis arose in the structure of the suite: allemande ←→ sarabande. The clash of two principles - variance and reprise - escalated. And to reconcile these two polar tendencies, it was necessary to introduce one more dance - as a kind of result, the conclusion of the whole cycle - gigi. As a result, a classical alignment of the form of an old suite is formed, which to this day captivates with its unpredictability and imaginative diversity.

Musicologists often compare the suite with the sonata-symphony cycle, but these genres are different from each other. In the suite, unity in plurality is manifested, and in the sonata-symphony cycle, the plurality of unity is manifested. If the principle of subordination of parts operates in the sonata-symphonic cycle, then the suite corresponds to the principle of coordination of parts. The suite is not limited by strict limits, rules; it differs from the sonata-symphony cycle by its freedom, ease of expression.

For all its outward discreteness, dismemberment, the suite has a dramatic integrity. As a single artistic organism, it is designed for the cumulative perception of parts in a certain sequence. The semantic core of the suite is manifested in the idea of ​​a contrasting multitude. As a result, the suite is, according to V. Nosina "multiple series of self-valuable givens".

Suite in the work of J.S. Bach

To better understand the features of the old suite, let's turn to the consideration of this genre within the framework of J.S. Bach's work.

The suite, as is known, arose and took shape long before Bach's time. Bach had a constant creative interest in the suite. The immediacy of the connections of the suite with the music of everyday life, the "everyday" concreteness of musical images; the democratism of the dance genre could not but captivate such an artist as Bach. During his long career as a composer, Johann Sebastian worked tirelessly on the genre of the suite, deepening its content and polishing the forms. Bach wrote suites not only for the clavier, but also for the violin and for various instrumental ensembles. So, in addition to separate works of the suite type, Bach has three collections of clavier suites, six in each: six “French”, six “English” and six partitas (I remind you that both the suite and the partita are on two different languages mean one term - a sequence). In total, Bach wrote twenty-three clavier suites.

As for the names “English”, “French”, as V. Galatskaya notes: "... the origin and meaning of the names have not been precisely established". The popular version is that The "... French" suites are so named because they are closest to the type of works and writing style of French harpsichordists; the name appeared after the death of the composer. The English ones were allegedly written by order of a certain Englishman.. Disputes among musicologists on this issue continue.

Unlike Handel, who completely freely understood the cycle of the clavier suite, Bach gravitated toward stability within the cycle. Its basis was invariably the sequence: allemande - courant - sarabande - jig; otherwise, various options were allowed. Between the sarabande and the gigue, as the so-called intermezzo, various, newer and “fashionable” dances for that time were usually placed: minuet (usually two minuets), gavotte (or two gavottes), burre (or two bourre), anglaise, polonaise.

Bach subordinates the established traditional scheme of the suite cycle to a new artistic and compositional concept. The widespread use of polyphonic development techniques often brings the allemande closer to the prelude, the gigue to the fugue, and the sarabande becomes the focus of lyrical emotions. Thus, the Bach suite becomes a more significant highly artistic phenomenon in music than its predecessors. The opposition of pieces that are contrasting in figurative and emotional content dramatizes and enriches the composition of the suite. Using the dance forms of this democratic genre, Bach transforms its inner structure and raises it to the level of great art.

Application

Brief description of the inserted dance suites .

Angles(from French anglaise, literally - english dance) - the common name for various folk dances of English origin in Europe (XVII-XIX centuries). In terms of music, it is close to ecossaise, in form - to rigaudon.

Burre(from French bourree, literally - to make unexpected jumps) - an old French folk dance. It originated around the middle of the 16th century. In various regions of France, there were bourrees of 2-beat and 3-beat sizes with a sharp, often syncopated rhythm. Since the 17th century, the bourre has been a court dance with a characteristic even meter (alla breve), a fast pace, a clear rhythm, and a one-bar beat. In the middle of the 17th century, the burré entered the instrumental suite as the penultimate movement. Lully included bourre in operas and ballets. In the first half of the 18th century, bourre was one of the most popular European dances.

Gavotte(from French gavotte, literally - the dance of the gavottes, inhabitants of the province of Auvergne in France) - an old French peasant round dance. The musical size is 4/4 or 2/2, the tempo is moderate. The French peasants performed it easily, smoothly, gracefully, to folk songs and bagpipes. In the 17th century, the gavotte became a court dance, acquiring a graceful and cutesy character. It is promoted not only by dance teachers, but also by the most famous artists: couples performing gavotte go to the canvases of Lancret, Watteau, graceful dance poses are captured in porcelain figurines. But the decisive role in the revival of this dance belongs to composers who create charming gavotte melodies and introduce them into a wide variety of musical works. It fell into disuse around 1830, although it survived in the provinces, especially in Brittany. A typical form is a 3-part da capo; sometimes the middle part of the gavotte is the musette. It is a constant part of the dance-instrumental suite.

Quadrille(from French quadrille, literally - a group of four people, from the Latin quadrum- quadrilateral). A dance popular with many European nations. It is built from the calculation of 4 pairs arranged in a square. The musical time signature is usually 2/4; consists of 5-6 figures, each has its own name and is accompanied by special music. From the end of the 17th century to the end of the 19th century, the square dance was one of the most popular salon dances.

Country dance(from French contredanse, literally - a village dance) - an old English dance. First mentioned in literature in 1579. It is possible to participate in the country dance of any number of pairs forming a circle ( round) or two opposite lines (longways) dancing. Musical sizes - 2/4 and 6/8. In the 17th century, the country dance appeared in the Netherlands and France, becoming most widespread in the middle of this century, pushing the minuet aside. The general availability, liveliness and universality of the country dance made it popular in Europe in the following centuries. Quadrille, grossvater, ecossaise, anglaise, tampet, lancier, cotillon, matredour and other dances became numerous varieties of country dance. Many country dance melodies subsequently turned into mass songs; became the basis of vaudeville couplets, songs in ballad operas. By the middle of the 19th century, the country dance was losing popularity, but remained in folk life (England, Scotland). Reborn in the 20th century.

Minuet(from French menuet, literally - a small step) - an old French folk dance. Having survived for several centuries the choreographic forms that arose simultaneously with him, he played a big role in the development of not only ballroom, but also stage dance. Brittany is considered its homeland, where it was performed directly and simply. It got its name from pas menus, small steps characteristic of the minuet. Like most dances, it originated from the French peasant branle - the so-called Poitou branle (from the French province of the same name). Under Louis XIV it became a court dance (circa 1660-1670). Musical size 3/4. The music of the minuets was created by many composers (Lulli, Gluck). Like many other dances that arose among the people, the minuet in its original form was associated with songs and the way of life of the area. The execution of the minuet was distinguished by elegance and grace, which greatly contributed to its rapid spread and popularity in court society.

The minuet became the favorite dance of the royal court under Louis XIV. Here he loses his folk character, his spontaneity and simplicity, becomes majestic and solemn. Court etiquette left its mark on the figures and postures of the dance. In the minuet, they tried to show the beauty of manners, refinement and grace of movements. The aristocratic society carefully studied the bows and curtsies that are often encountered in the course of the dance. The magnificent clothes of the performers obliged them to slow movements. The minuet more and more took on the features of a dance dialogue. The gentleman's movements were gallant and respectful in nature and expressed admiration for the lady. At the French court, the minuet very soon became the leading dance. For a long time, the minuet was performed by one couple, then the number of couples began to increase.

Musette(from French musette, the main meaning is bagpipes). French old folk dance. Size - 2/4, 6/4 or 6/8. The pace is fast. It was performed to the accompaniment of bagpipes (hence the name). In the 18th century, he entered the court opera and ballet divertissements.

paspier(from French pass-pied) is an old French dance that apparently originated in Northern Brittany. In folk life, dance music was performed on the bagpipe or sung. The peasants of Upper Brittany have long known this temperamental dance. At the end of the 16th century, paspier becomes very popular. On holidays, expansive Parisians willingly dance it on the street. At French court balls, the paspier appears at the very end. XVI century. In the first half of the 17th century, they began to dance it in various salons in Paris. The musical time signature of the court paspier is 3/4 or 3/8, starting with the lead-in. The paspier is close to the minuet, but was performed at a faster pace. Now this dance included many small, emphasized rhythmic movements. During the dance, the gentleman had to extraordinary lightness take off and put on your hat to the beat of the music. The paspier was included in the instrumental suite between its main dance parts (usually between the sarabande and the gigue). In the ballet numbers of the operas, the paspier was used by the composers Rameau, Gluck, and others.

Passacaglia(from Italian passacaglia- pass and calle- street) - a song, later a dance of Spanish origin, originally performed on the street, accompanied by a guitar at the departure of guests from the festival (hence the name). In the 17th century, the passacaglia became widespread in many European countries and, having disappeared from choreographic practice, became one of the leading genres of instrumental music. Its defining features are: solemn and mourning character, slow pace, 3 beat meter, minor mode.

Rigaudon(from French rigaudon, rigodon) is a French dance. Time signature 2/2, alla breve. Includes 3-4 repeating sections with an unequal number of measures. It became widespread in the 17th century. The name, according to J.J. Rousseau, comes from the name of its alleged creator Rigaud ( Rigaud). Rigaudon is a modification of an old southern French folk round dance. Was part of the dance suite. It was used by French composers in ballets and ballet divertissement operas.

Chaconne(from spanish chacona; possibly onomatopoeic origin) - originally a folk dance, known in Spain from the end of the 16th century. Time signature 3/4 or 3/2, live tempo. Accompanied by singing and playing the castanets. Over time, the chaconne spread throughout Europe, becoming a slow dance of a stately character, usually in minor, with an emphasis on the 2nd beat. In Italy, the chaconne approaches the passacaglia, enriching itself with variations. In France, the chaconne becomes a ballet dance. Lully introduced the chaconne as the closing number to the finale of the stage works. In the 17th-18th centuries, the chaconne was included in suites and partitas. In many cases composers did not distinguish between the chaconne and the passacaglia. In France, both names were used to designate works of the couplet rondo type. Chaconne also has much in common with sarabande, folia, and English ground. In the XX century. practically ceased to differ from the passacaglia.

Ecossaise, ecossaise(from French ecossaise, literally - Scottish dance) - an old Scottish folk dance. Initially, the time signature was 3/2, 3/4, the tempo was moderate, accompanied by bagpipes. At the end of the 17th century, it appeared in France, then under the general name "anglize" spread throughout Europe. Later it became a merry pair-group fast-tempo dance, in 2 beats. It gained particular popularity in the 1st third of the 19th century (as a kind of country dance). The musical form of ecossaise consists of two repeated 8- or 16-bar movements.

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entrecha(from French) - jump, jump; pirouette(from French) - a full turn of the dancer on the spot.

Johann Jakob Froberger(1616-1667) German composer and organist. He contributed to the spread of national traditions in Germany. He played a significant role in the formation and development of the instrumental suite.

A description of the insert numbers in the suite can be found in the appendix to this work.

From Latin discretus- divided, discontinuous: discontinuity.

So, according to A. Schweitzer, J.S. Bach originally intended to call six partitas “German suites”.

Author of the book “Suites for cello solo by I.S. Bach"

Bach himself, according to A. Korto, asked to perform his suites, thinking about string instruments.

The material of Yulia Blonskaya "On the dances of the 17th century" (Lviv, "Cribniy Vovk") was used

Municipal educational institution

Additional education for children

"Children's School of Arts in Novopushkinskoye"

Methodical message on the topic:

"Suite Genre in Instrumental Music"

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2010 - 2011 academic year

Translated from French, the word "suite" means "sequence", "row". It is a multi-part cycle, consisting of independent, contrasting pieces, united by a common artistic idea.

Sometimes instead of a name "suite" composers used another, also common - "partita".
Historically, the first was an old dance suite, which

written for one instrument or orchestra. Initially, it had two dances: majestic pavan and fast galliard.

They were played one after another - this is how the first samples of the old instrumental suite arose, which became most widespread in the 2nd half of the XVII V. - 1st half XVIII V. In its classical form, it has established itself in the work of the Austrian composer. Its basis was
four diverse dances:

allemande, chimes, sarabande, jig.

Gradually, composers began to include other dances in the suite, and their choice varied freely. These could be: minuet, passacaglia, polonaise, chaconne, rigaudon and etc.
Sometimes non-dance pieces were introduced into the suite - arias, preludes, overtures, toccatas. Thus, the total number of rooms in the suite was not regulated. The more important was the means that united individual pieces into a single cycle, for example, the contrasts of tempo, meter, and rhythm.

The true pinnacle of the development of the genre was reached in creativity. The composer fills the music of his numerous suites (clavier, violin, cello, orchestra) with such a penetrating feeling, makes these pieces so diverse and deep in mood, organizes them into such a harmonious whole that he rethinks the genre, opens up new expressive possibilities contained in simple dance forms , as well as in the very basis of the suite cycle (“Chaconne” from the partita in D minor).

The suite genre originated in the 16th century. Then the suites consisted of only four parts, which were written in the spirit of four different dances. The first composer who combined dances into a whole work was. The suite began with a leisurely dance, then there was a fast dance, it was replaced by a very slow "Sarabande", and the work was completed by a very fast and impetuous dance "Giga". The only thing that united these dances, different in character and tempo, was that they were written in the same key. At first, suites were performed with only one instrument (most often on the lute or harpsichord), later composers began to write suites for orchestras. At the initial stage of its development, the music of the suite had an applied character - they danced to it. But for the development of the dramaturgy of the suite cycle, a certain removal from everyday dances was required. From this time begins the classical period of the dance suite. The most typical basis for the dance suite was the set of dances that developed in the suites: allemande - courante - sarabande - gigue.

Each of these dances has its own history of origin, its own unique distinctive features. Here is a brief description and origin of the main dances of the suite.

Allemande (from the French allemande, literally German; danse allemande - German dance) is an old dance of German origin. As a court dance, the allemande appeared in England, France and the Netherlands in the middle of the 16th century. The meter is two-part, the tempo is moderate, the melody is smooth. Usually consisted of two, sometimes three or four parts. In the 17th century, the allemande entered the solo (lute harpsichord and others) and orchestral suites as the 1st movement, becoming a solemn introductory piece. Over the course of several centuries, his music has undergone significant changes. On the whole, the melodic allemande has always had a symmetrical structure, a small range, and a smooth roundness.

Courante (from the French courante, literally running) is a court dance of Italian origin. It became widespread at the turn of the 16th-17th centuries. Originally had a musical size 2/4, dotted rhythm; they danced it together with a slight hop as they passed around the hall, the gentleman held the lady by the hand. It would seem that this is quite simple, but serious enough preparation was required for the chime to be a noble dance with beautiful gestures and correct proportionate movements of the legs, and not just an ordinary example of walking around the hall. In this ability to “walk” (the verb “walk” was used even more often) was the secret of the chime, which was the ancestor of many other dances. As musicologists note, initially, the chimes were performed with a jump, later - little separated from the ground. Whoever danced the chimes well, all other dances seemed easy to him: the chimes were considered the grammatical basis of dance art. In the 17th century in Paris, a dance academy developed a chime, which became the prototype of the minuet, which later replaced its ancestor. In instrumental music, the chimes survived until the first half of the 18th century (suites by Bach and Handel).

Sarabande (from Spanish - sacra banda, literally - procession). A solemnly concentrated mournful dance that originated in Spain as a church rite with a shroud, performed by a procession in a church in a circle. Later, the sarabande began to be compared with the burial rite of the deceased.

Jiga (from the English jig; literally - to dance) is a fast old folk dance of Celtic origin. An early feature of the dance was that the dancers only moved their feet; blows were made with the toes and heels of the feet, while the upper part of the body remained motionless. Perhaps that is why the gigue was considered the dance of English sailors. During the sailing on the ship, when they were taken on deck to air out and stretch, they tapped and shuffled their feet on the floor, beat the rhythm, striking with their palms and sang songs. However, as will be discussed below, there is another opinion about the origin of this dance. Instrumental pieces under this name are already found in the 16th century. In the 17th century, the dance became popular in Western Europe. In the lute music of France in the 17th century, the gigue in 4-beat meter became widespread. In different countries, in the work of different composers, the jig acquired a variety of shapes and sizes - 2-beat, 3-beat, 4-beat.

It should be noted that some dance genres have been significantly transformed precisely in the clavier suite. For example, the gigue, as part of a suite, was rather large; as a dance, it consisted of two eight-bar repeated sentences.

There was no reason to limit the suites to four dances and forbid the addition of new ones. Different countries approached the use of the suite's composite numbers in different ways. Italian composers retained only the size and rhythm of the dance, not caring about its original character. The French were stricter in this regard and considered it necessary to preserve the rhythmic features of each dance form.

in his suites he goes even further: he gives each of the main dance pieces a distinct musical personality. So, in the allemande, he conveys a full of strength, calm movement; in the chimes - moderate haste, in which dignity and grace are combined; his saraband is an image of a stately solemn procession; in the gigue, the freest form, a fantasy-filled movement dominates. Bach created from a suite form, the highest art without violating the old principle of combining dances.

Bach's suites (6 English and 6 French, 6 partitas, "French Overture" for clavier, 4 orchestral suites called overtures, partitas for solo violin, suites for solo cello) complete the process of freeing the dance piece from its connection with its everyday source . In the dance parts of his suites, Bach retains only the typical this dance forms of movement and some features of the rhythmic pattern; on this basis, he creates plays that contain a deep lyrical and dramatic content. In each type of suites, Bach has his own plan for building a cycle; thus, English suites and cello suites always begin with a prelude, between the sarabande and the gigue they always have 2 similar dances, etc. Bach's overtures invariably include a fugue.

The further development of the suite is connected with the influence of opera and ballet on this genre. The suite has new dances and song parts in the spirit of the aria; suites arose, consisting of orchestral fragments of musical and theatrical works. An important element of the suite was the French overture - introductory part, consisting of a slow solemn beginning and a quick fugue conclusion. In some cases, the term "overture" replaced the term "suite" in the titles of works; other synonyms were the terms “order” (“order”) by F. Couperin and “partita” by F. Couperin.

From the second half of the 18th century, the suite was replaced by other genres, and, with the advent of classicism, it faded into the background. In the 19th century, the renaissance of the suite begins; she is in demand again. The romantic suite is represented mainly by the work of R. Schumann, without which it is completely unthinkable to consider this stylistic variety of the genre and, in general, the suite of the 19th century. Representatives of the Russian piano school () also turned to the suite genre. Suite cycles can also be found in the work of modern composers ().

Composers XIX-XX centuries, while preserving the main features of the genre - the cyclic construction, the contrast of parts, etc., give them a different figurative interpretation. Danceability is no longer a required attribute. The suite uses a variety of musical material, often its content is determined by the program. At the same time, dance music is not expelled from the suite, on the contrary, new, modern dances are introduced into it, for example, "Puppet Cake" in C. Debussy's suite "Children's Corner".
Suites appear, composed of music for theatrical productions (Peer Gynt by E. Grieg), ballets (The Nutcracker and The Sleeping Beauty, Romeo and Juliet), operas (The Tale of Tsar Saltan by Korsakov).
In the middle of the XX century. suites are also composed of music for films (“Hamlet”).
In the vocal-symphonic suites, along with music, the word is also heard (Prokofiev's Winter Bonfire). Sometimes composers call certain vocal cycles vocal suites (Six Poems by M. Tsvetaeva by Shostakovich).

Suite (from the French. Suite - sequence, series) - a type of cyclic musical form that contains separate contrasting parts, while they are united by a common idea.

This is a multi-part cycle, which includes independent, contrasting pieces that have a common artistic idea. It happens that composers replace the word "suite" with the word "partita", which is also very common.

The main differences between the suite and the sonatas and symphonies is that each of its parts is independent, there is no such rigor, no regularity in the ratios of these parts. The word "suite" appeared in the second half of the 17th century. thanks to French composers. Suites of the 17th - 18th centuries were of the dance genre; orchestral suites that were no longer dance suites began to be written in the 19th century. (the most famous suites are “Pictures at an Exhibition” by Mussorgsky, “Scheherazade” by Rimsky-Korsakov).

At the end of the 17th century in Germany, parts of this musical form acquired the exact sequence:

first came Allemande, then followed Courante, after her Sarabande, and finally Gigue

A characteristic feature of the suite is the depiction inherent in painting, it also has a close connection with dance and song. Often suites use music from ballet, opera, theater productions. Two special types of suites are choral and vocal.

During the birth of the suite - at the end of the Renaissance, a combination of two dances was used, one of which was slow, important (for example, pavane), and the other was lively (like a galliard). This then evolved into a four-part cycle. German composer I. Ya. Froberger (1616–1667) created an instrumental dance suite: an allemande of a moderate tempo in a two-part meter - an exquisite chime - a jig - a measured sarabande.

The first in history appeared an old dance suite, it was written for one instrument or for an orchestra. At first it consisted of two dances: the stately pavane and the swift galliard. They were performed one after another, so the first ancient instrumental suites appeared, which were most common in the second half of the 17th century - the first half of the 18th. The suite acquired a classic look in the works written by the Austrian composer I. Ya. Froberger. It was based on 4 dances, which differed in their character: allemande, sarabande, chimes, jig. Then the composers used other dances in the suite, which they chose freely. It could be: minuet, polonaise, passacaglia, rigaudon, chaconne, etc. Sometimes non-dance pieces appeared in the suite - preludes, arias, toccatas, overtures. So, the suite did not set the total number of rooms. More significant were the means that made it possible to combine individual pieces into a common cycle, for example, the contrasts of meter, tempo, and rhythm.

As a genre, the suite began to develop under the influence of opera and ballet. She began to combine new dances and parts of songs in the spirit of the aria; suites appeared, which included orchestral fragments of works of a musical and theatrical type. An important component of the suite was the French overture, the beginning of which included a slow solemn beginning and a fast fugue finish. In certain cases, the word "overture" was replaced by the word "suite" in the titles of works; such synonyms as Bach's "partita" and Couperin's "order" ("order") were also used.

The peak of the development of this genre is observed in the works of J. S. Bach, who uses in his suites (for clavier, orchestra, cello, violin) a special feeling that touches and gives his pieces an individual and unique style, embodies them into a kind of unified whole, which even changes the genre, adding new shades of musical expression, which are hidden in simple dance forms, and at the heart of the suite cycle (“Chaconne” from the partita in D minor).

In the middle of 1700s. suite and sonata were a single whole, and the word itself was no longer used, however, the structure of the suite was still present in the serenade, divertissement and other genres. The term "suite" began to be used again at the end of the 19th century, and, as before, it denoted a collection of instrumental parts of a ballet (suite from Tchaikovsky's Nutcracker), opera (suite from Carmen Bizet), music written for dramatic plays (Per Gynt Grieg's suite to drama by Ibsen). Other composers began to write separate program suites, such as Rimsky-Korsakov's Scheherazade based on the tales of the East.

Composers of the 19th-20th centuries, preserving the main characteristic features of the genre: the contrast of parts, the cyclic construction, etc., presented it in a different way. Dancing has ceased to be a fundamental feature. Various musical material began to be used in the suite, often the content of the suite depended on the program. At the same time, dance music remains in the suite, at the same time new dances appear in it, for example, "Puppet Cake Walk" in C. Debussy's suite "Children's Corner". Suites are also being created that use music for ballets (“The Sleeping Beauty” and “The Nutcracker” by P. I. Tchaikovsky, “Romeo and Juliet” by S. S. Prokofiev), theatrical productions (“Peer Gynt” by E. Grieg), operas ( "The Tale of Tsar Saltan" by N. A. Rimsky-Korsakov). In the middle of the 20th century, suites also began to incorporate music for films (D. D. Shostakovich's Hamlet).

The vocal-symphonic suites with music use the word (“Winter Bonfire” by Prokofiev). Some composers call certain vocal cycles vocal suites (Six Poems by M. Tsvetaeva by Shostakovich).

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Suite

Cyclic forms

The word "cycle" (from Greek) means a circle, so the cyclic form covers one or another circle of different musical images (tempos, genres, and so on).

Cyclic forms are those forms that consist of several parts, independent in form, contrasting in character.

Unlike the form section, each part of the loop can be executed separately. During the execution of the entire cycle, breaks are made between parts, the duration of which is not fixed.

In cyclic forms, all parts are different, i.e. none is a reprise repetition of the previous ones. But in cycles of a large number of miniatures, there are repetitions.

In instrumental music, two main types of cyclic forms have developed: the suite and the sonata-symphony cycle.

The word "suite" means succession. The origins of the suite are the folk tradition of juxtaposing dances: the procession is opposed to the jumping dance (in Russia - quadrille, in Poland - kuyawiak, polonaise, mazur).

In the 16th century paired dances (pavane and galliard; branle and saltarella) were compared. Sometimes this pair was joined by a third dance, usually in three beats.

Froberger developed a classical suite: allemande, courante, sarabanda. Later, he introduced the jig. The parts of the suite cycle are interconnected by a single concept, but are not united by a single line of consistent development, as in a work with the sonata principle of combining parts.

There are different types of suites. Usually distinguish old And new suite.

The ancient suite is most fully represented in the works of composers of the first half of the 18th century - primarily J.S. Bach and F. Handel.

The basis of a typical old baroque suite was four dances contrasting with each other in tempo and character, arranged in a certain sequence:

1. Allemande(German) - a moderate, four-part, most often polyphonic round dance procession. The nature of this venerable, somewhat stately dance in music is displayed in a moderate, restrained tempo, in a specific off-beat, calm and melodious intonations.

2. Courant(Italian corrente - “fluid”) - a more frisky three-part French solo dance, which was performed by a couple of dancers at court balls. The texture of the chimes is most often polyphonic, but the nature of the music is somewhat different - it is more mobile, its phrases are shorter, emphasized with staccato strokes.

3. Sarabande - dance of Spanish origin, known since the 16th century. This is also a procession, but a funeral procession. The sarabande was most often performed solo and accompanied by a melody. Hence, it is characterized by a chordal texture, which in a number of cases turned into a homophonic one. There were slow and fast types of sarabande. I.S. Bach and F. Handel is a slow three-beat dance. The rhythm of the sarabande is characterized by a stop on the second beat of the bar. There are sarabandes lyrically insightful, restrainedly mournful, and others, but all of them are characterized by significance and grandeur.



4. Gigue- a very fast, collective, somewhat comical (sailor) dance of Irish origin. This dance is characterized by a triplet rhythm and (overwhelmingly) fugue presentation (less often, variations on basso-ostinato and fugue).

Thus, the succession of parts is based on the periodic alternation of tempos (with increasing tempo contrast towards the end) and on the symmetrical arrangement of mass and solo dances. The dances followed one after the other in such a way that the contrast of the adjacent dances increased all the time - a moderately slow allemande and a moderately fast chimes, then a very slow sarabande and a very fast jig. This contributed to the unity and integrity of the cycle, in the center of which was the choral sarabande.

All dances are written in the same key. Exceptions concern the introduction of the eponymous and sometimes parallel tonality, more often in insert numbers. Sometimes a dance (most often a sarabande) was followed by an ornamental variation on this dance (Double).

Between the sarabande and the gigue there may be intercalated numbers, not necessarily dances. Before the allemande there may be a prelude (fantasy, symphony, etc.), often written in free form.

In insert numbers, two dances of the same name can follow (for example, two gavottes or two minuets), and after the second dance the first is repeated again. Thus, the second dance, which was written in the same key, formed a kind of trio inside the repetitions of the first.

The term "suite" originated in the 16th century and was used in Germany and England. Other names: lessons - in England, balletto - in Italy, partie - in Germany, ordre - in France.

After Bach, the old suite lost its meaning. In the 18th century, some works arose that were similar to a suite (divertissement, cassations). In the 19th century, a suite appears that differs from the old one.

The ancient suite is interesting in that it outlined the compositional features of a number of structures, which later developed into independent musical forms, namely:

1. The structure of inserted dances became the basis for the future three-part form.

2. Doubles became the forerunner of the variation form.

3. In a number of numbers, the tonal plan and the nature of development thematic material became the basis of the future sonata form.

4. The nature of the arrangement of the parts in the suite quite clearly provides for the arrangement of the parts of the sonata-symphony cycle.

The suite of the second half of the 18th century is characterized by the rejection of dance in its pure form, the approach to the music of the sonata-symphony cycle, its influence on the tonal plan and the structure of the parts, the use of sonata allegro, and the absence of a certain number of parts.


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