Siberian Federal University

Issue

Journal of Siberian Federal University. Humanities & Social Sciences. 2014 7 (1)

Authors

Perepich, Natalia V.

Contact information

Perepich, Natalia V.:Krasnoyarsk State Academy of Music and Theatre 22 Lenin Str., Krasnoyarsk, 660049 Russia;E-mail:

Keywords

Soviet music; glorifying music; proletariat theatre; demonstration performance; postrevolutionary period

Abstract

The present article is dedicated to the issue on inclusion of some elements of theatre and drama art into Soviet glorifying musical pieces of the post-Revolutionary times. Being created in the period of a new communistic state formation, these opuses were intended to make up a positive picture of the Soviet reality in the listeners’ minds, to introduce its key concepts and ideas. The comparative analysis of the glorifying musical pieces and proletariat “meeting type” performance revealed a spectrum of the general techniques, including drawing upon a typical drama pattern, turning to canto texts, dividing the choir into groups engaged in a dialogue with each other, involving the audience into action. Among their typical features, there are: enhanced visual appeal and the originality of dramatic solution, in using such attributes as posters, hooters and a big drum in the actors’ hands. The emphasis on spoken word is achieved by applying various genres and types of declamation, introduction of a reciter, reproduction of political meeting scenes. As a consequence, the drama element in the glorifying pieces of the early Soviet period is represented by the principle of powerful expression of the key concepts and ideas of communism

Pages

74-82

Paper at repository of SibFU

https://elib.sfu-kras.ru/handle/2311/10182

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