UZEYIR HAJIBEYLI’S “KOROGLU” OPERA IN THE CONTEXT OF THE PRINCIPLES OF NATIONAL MUSICAL THINKING

Abstract

The article reveals the features of U. Hajibeyli's musical thinking in the opera “Koroglu”, which determined the principles of h work’s thematic organization. The national beginning was clearly manifested in the opera through an appeal to the history and worldview of the people, the entire set of musical and expressive means, which characterize the genres of Azerbaijani music of oral tradition. The emergence of the opera was prepared by the composer's research activities in studying the foundations of folk music, as well as his innovative research in the field of musical theater related to the creation of a mugham opera and a musical comedy. The conducted analysis shows that the stylistic renewal of European compositional norms is carried out in “Koroglu” in accordance with the variant specifics of the national musical thinking. The opera combines a mugham germination of an intonation and a variant identity of melodic turns, a mode tonality and timbre variation, a syntactic variation in terms of a couplet form, a variant deployment within sections of a tripartite and sonata structure.