От комоса к искусству: ритуал, зрелище, развлечение

Abstract

The consideration of the European musical tradition, its evolution, which took place over a long time, is an extremely interesting material for the researcher. Musical culture is considered in this article in its classical antique version as a unity of singing, dance and music, once enclosed in the Greek triune chorea. The starting point, the beginning of the study, was chosen the phenomenon of ancient “grassroots” culture — Сomos, a festive song in honor of Dionysus, which plays an extremely important role, since antique comedy grows out of the traditions of Attic ritual fun. The musical triad of Сomos takes on different guises: rituals, spectacles, entertainment, being embodied in specific phenomena belonging to a particular time, a particular country. The musical triad took a special path in Russia. It took only two centuries for Peter’s noisy Bacchanalian festival to develop into high art. This article is devoted to these metamorphoses.