Title of the article:

RUSSIAN ROCK OF THE 1970–1980TH IN THE CONTEXT OF INTERACTION WITH CLASSICAL MUSIC TRADITION

Author(s):

Elena A. Savitskaya

Information about the author/authors

Elena A. Savitskaya — PhD of Arts, Senior Researcher, State Institute for Art Studies, Kozitsky lane 5, 125009 Moscow, Russia. E-mail: helen@inrock.ru

Section

History of Arts

Year

2019

Volume

Vol. 52

Pages

pp. 261–275

Received

July 17, 2018

Date of publication

June 28, 2019

Index UDK

78.03

Index BBK

85.318

Abstract

The article highlights various aspects of interaction of domestic rock music with academic musical culture. Despite the declared distance of rock from the musical “classics”, simplicity of means and the main role of poetic forms of expression in domestic rock tradition, interaction with classical music could be expressed both in a general enrichment of the artistic thesaurus of rock and in the form of stylizations, quotations, arrangements classical works by rock musicians. Such an interaction, although not so frequent, but very significant, developed in the domestic rock of the 1970s–1980s in two ways: through direct communication with the “classics” (in the process of musical education, musical leisure) and through well-known samples of foreign rock addressing the “classic” (the arrangement of Mussorgsky’s “Pictures at an Exhibition” by British band “ELP”, Bach’s themes in “Procol Harum” works etc.). The author examines examples of such interaction in the works of the Russian bands “Sonans”, “Autograph”, “Merry Guys” etc., revealing the criteria of the “depth” of the interpreter's penetration into original music material. A special attention is paid to the work of Russian and Soviet composers, which is often considered by domestic rockers in the context of the modern era.

Keywords

rock music, Russian rock, domestic rock, classical music, quotation, arrangement, stylization, arrangement, style dialogue.

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