Music Journal of Northern Europe № 3(15), 2018

Contents

Olga J. Zhukova
Sound expressiveness in Vepsian folklore texts | 1-9

Olga V. Nikiforova
Polystylistics in the Smirnov's “Songs of Ariel” to the words by William Shakespeare | 10-18

Olga A. Bochkaryeva
Runic tune as the stimulus of the creative process | 19-29

Irina V. Koposova
Republican Solfeggio Olympiad for music schools and art schools: the experience of cooperation between the school and the conservatoire | 30-44

Abstract: The article analyzes the functioning of such a phonological means of expressiveness as alliteration in the oral tradition of the Veps. The types of initial consonance that can be distinguished by the intensity and duration of the alliterative chain are illustrated by text examples from various genres, recorded from different local groups of the Veps. The language of folklore, striving to create such a stylistic technique, seems to most commonly use strong alliteration and unification of two adjacent words, which are often fixed as a traditional formula.

Keywords: Vepsian folklore, alliteration, stylistic device, song, lamentation, cumulative song-tale, riddle, proverb, spell

Abstract: The cycle “Ariel's Songs” by Dmitri Smirnov combines modern composition techniques that are illustrative of the author's style, and art traditions of the Elizabethan England. The author creates an allusion to the early Baroque consort, refers to the authentic version of the verbal text, quotes the song of the Shakespeare's theater composer Robert Johnson, and uses instrumental theater techniques. This type of style dialogue allows us to talk about the symbiotic type of polystylistics.

Keywords: vocal cycle, polystylistics, quotation, seriality, Shakespeare

Abstract: The article was created on the basis of a previously unpublished report by Olga A. Bochkaryova which was read at the conference “Artistic Creativity: Aesthetic, Psychological, Methodological Problems” in June, 1985. In this text, the author undertakes one of the first attempts to summarize the versions of the realization of the runic tune and its specific features that have developed in the music of the composers of Karelia, composed in 1950–1980.

Keywords: runic tune, music by the composers of Karelia, versions of the runic tune reflected in compositional work

Abstract: The article summarizes the changes in the organization and the forms of the Republican Solfeggio Olympiad during the period from 2011 to 2017. The event has been organized at the premises of the Balakirev School of Arts for the last 20 years. Within specified time the assignments and the structure of the Olympiad were developed collaboratively by the teachers of the school and the Petrozavodsk State Glazunov Conservatoire. The article covers the events held within the framework of the Olympics, gives examples of the tasks and statistics of the participants, and lists winners of different years.

Keywords: Republican Solfeggio Olympiad, oral and written assignments for solfeggio, worksheet