The genre of spiritual verse in the choral work of Yu. M. Butsko with the example of the cantata “Four Old Russian chants from the collection "Flower garden"”

Abstract

The main scientific interest of the author is the identification and study of little-known and unpublished choral works by one of the brightest representatives of Russian musical culture of the XX-XXI century Yuri M. Butsko. This article attempts to study the handwritten score of the cantata "Four Old Russian Chants from the Collection" Flower Garden "(Spiritual Poems)", written in 1969, in the early period of the composer's work. The cantata is based on four spiritual verses - examples of the musical and poetic genre, to which the composer has repeatedly addressed both in vocal and instrumental compositions (symphonies, concerts, piano pieces). Special attention is paid to the analysis of the musical language of each part of the cantata: melody, harmony, rhythmic features, principles of orchestration. The interrelation of some fragments of the cantata with the music of the Baroque epoch in the context of the use of musical rhetorical figures is revealed. In the course of the research, it was possible to determine that the work was written according to the author's modal methodology of Yu. M. Butsko – «twelve-note at a distance» – first presented in the same 1969 in the «Polyphonic Concert». In conclusion, the author of the article expresses the hope that the cantata «Four old Russian chants from the collection "Flower garden"» will be published, performed and made available to the public.