Approaches to Classification of Modern Musical-Screen Forms

Abstract

The purpose of the article is to identify the most appropriate features of the systematization of musical-screen forms to create a flexible system for their classification. The methodology of research is based on a complex of general scientific methods of analysis and synthesis, analogy, comparison and synthesis, systematization, using interdisciplinary (musicological and film studies) approach. The scientific novelty is manifested in finding characteristic features and factors of musical-screen forms, according to which several variants of their classification are offered. The systematization of screen creations with a dominant musical component allows us to look at already known representatives with a new perspective in the process of further scientific exploration. In addition, the classification will promote the introduction into the scientific circulation of the latest forms created by the increasing technology of life. Conclusions. Accumulation of a sufficient number of similar features of individual elements prompts the scientist to propose a classification system that would fit all the existing objects into one. By comparing the "classical" musical-screen forms with the newest ones and organizing them on common terms, we thus assert the right to exist and to research scientifically the newest forms (video album, music blog, video art, musical series, musical almanacs, etc.). The developed systematization will allow in the future to clearly define the place of forms, which are not yet demonstrable at the moment, that forms, which will be generated as new phenomena in the media space. The classification process helps, firstly, to identify the uniqueness of each of the forms and, secondly, to determine its place in the screen arts system.