DOI: 10.36871/hon.202101007
Authors
Ye. V. Beriglazova
Magnitogorsk State Conservatory (Academy) named after M. I. Glinka, Magnitogorsk, Russian Federation
Abstract
The work of the Russian composer Sergei Ivanovich Sirotin (XNUMX–XNUMX) occupies a unique niche in modern music. However, there is not much information either about the composer or about his choral work. The article focuses on Sirotin's poem "The Death of Ivan the Terrible" written for a mixed choir. The essay chosen for research clarifies the degree of reflection of the aesthetic categories of the tragic and the comic. The author analyzes the artistic images through the prism of these categories. Special attention is paid both to the identification of the tragic beginning in plot collisions of the work and its images, and to the comic in its various forms. The choral poem presents elements of folk laughter culture (parody, grotesque), as well as a character that performs a carnival and ritual function. In conclusion, the author states that the images embodied in the poem are the bearers of both tragic and satirical tragic elements, and indicates the features of musical characteristics that contribute to their expression in artistic images. It is argued that at the conceptual level of the work, the tragic and satirical tragic beginnings are opposed to each other.
Keywords
S. Sirotin, choral poem, "Death of Ivan the Terrible", the tragic, the comic
