Kontakion “With the Saints give rest” as a phenomenon of Russian musical culture of the 19th–21st centuries: research experience
Abstract
This article opens a series of publications devoted to the funeral kontakion “With the Saints give rest”, which was able to overcome the framework of Orthodox worship and integrate into the sphere of composer creativity as a Russian musical symbol of Death. The author considers it as an extremely important phenomenon of national culture. The article is the first in Russian musicology to systematizes and analyzes the almost two-hundred-year tradition of musical references to the melody “With the Saints give rest” of the Kiev chant, observed in the secular works of composers of the Russian school. Each of these quotes or allusions receives an original musical embodiment, acquiring different semantic shades. Some semantic aspects identified in the author’s interpretations were initially present in the funeral kontakion. Others, on the contrary, are the result of foreign cultural influence. The publication highlights the reasons that contributed to the actualization of composer’s interest in the melody “With the Saints give rest”. Among them: the death of a loved one, military events and other social upheavals, a premonition of the end of life’s journey and its comprehension in the late period of creativity.
About the Author
A. V. Potaptsev
Children’s Music School
Russian Federation
Russian Federation
Teacher of musical theoretical disciplines
Svirsk, 665420
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Potaptsev A.V. Kontakion “With the Saints give rest” as a phenomenon of Russian musical culture of the 19th–21st centuries: research experience. ARTE. 2023;(3):14-33. (In Russ.)
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