REQUIEM BY ALFRED SCHNITTKE: TO THE QUESTION OF EMBODIMENT OF OLD MODELS OF SPIRITUAL GENRES IN CONTEMPORARY MUSI
REQUIEM BY ALFRED SCHNITTKE: TO THE QUESTION OF EMBODIMENT OF OLD MODELS OF SPIRITUAL GENRES IN CONTEMPORARY MUSI

Summary/Abstract: Based on a comprehensive analysis of Requiem by A. Schnittke from music to drama of Fr. Schiller’s “Don Carlos”, the peculiarities of interpretation by the contemporary composer of catholic funeral mass were revealed. The research methodology is based on a systematic approach that combines methods of complex and comparative analysis and allows to consider a separate piece of music as a subsystem of contemporary composer creativity. The scientific novelty is that in the article for the first time on the basis of complex analysis the features of functioning of the old genre model of the funeral mass were identified and the circle of style associations in A. Requiem by A. Schnittke was revealed. Features of the traditional genre model of the funeral mass in the work of the modern composer function at all levels in their entirety. However, the old genre is also filled with new stylistic and semantic features. The unconventional emotional content of Sanctus, the introduction of the unusual Credo requiem show a tendency to blur the boundaries of the genre, expand its content and style connections. A. Schnittke interpreted the requiem into a variety of metamorphoses of genre traits that have appeared throughout the history of the existence of the funeral mass.

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