ВОКАЛЬНЫЙ ЦИКЛ Н.Я. МЯСКОВСКОГО «РАЗМЫШЛЕНИЯ»: ПОЭТИЧЕСКОЕ СЛОВО И МУЗЫКА

Abstract

The article examines N. Myaskovsky's early vocal cycle «Reflections», written in the early period of creativity, from the perspective of the relationship between the poetic text and the musical language, emphasizes the special importance of this composition in the composer's work. In the study of the peculiarities of the organization of poetic speech and its influence on musical stylistics, the authors come to the following conclusions. The use of iambics, enjambment, alliteration, adherence to the Old Slavonic and church vocabulary to embody «high style», following the traditions of German romanticism when describing nature and appeal to antique models can be pointed out in the structure of poems. The affinity of Baratynsky's world of art and the Symbolists’ poetry was also revealed. The language of music is characterized by leitmotiv, dominance of plagal progressions, the contrast of diatonicism and active chromaticism to create a romantic duality. The composer uses the method of pentatonic scale and avoids tonic where the poetic text speaks of illusory worlds or of the future. The authors conclude that many of the music language elements discovered will be further developed in Myaskovsky's later works.