title: Untaken Peaks of ‘National Musical Construction’
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metadata.value: Maklygin, Alexander L.
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metadata.name: dc.date.accessioned
metadata.value: 2020-12-17T12:26:59Z
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metadata.name: dc.date.available
metadata.value: 2020-12-17T12:26:59Z
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metadata.name: dc.date.issued
metadata.value: 2020-12
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metadata.value: Maklygin, Alexander. “Untaken Peaks of ‘National Musical Construction’”. Vestnik of Saint Petersburg University. Arts 10, no. 4 (2020): 539–559.
metadata.lang: en_GB
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metadata.value: https://doi.org/10.21638/spbu15.2020.401
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metadata.value: http://hdl.handle.net/11701/21714
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metadata.name: dc.description.abstract
metadata.value: The article is devoted to the process of the establishment of national professional musical
  practices in the national culture of the 1920–1940s on the example of creating the first operas.
  Initiated by state policy, the accelerated rise of academic art in the new Soviet republics
  brought about different artistic results, where, alongside the successful solution of the tasks
  set, the phenomenon of creative failure was adjacent. This was especially manifested in the
  work on the opera as the most complex and highest genre of European music. As a result of
  this work, the problematic aspects of the accelerated conquest of academic artistic tasks in the
  national republics were distinctly expressed: lack of the necessary socio-cultural infrastructure, a weak level of musical and performing personnel and the creative unprepared pioneer
  composers to solve opera dramaturgical problems. The “folklore thinking” of the first opera
  authors encountered a number of genre problems, the overcoming of which was expressed in
  all kinds of national interpretations aimed at combining strict European canons (for example,
  the phenomenon of the so-called “Turkic opera”). The most common event in the national
  republics was the phenomenon of “unfinished operas”, which demonstrated a certain antagonism of the composer’s folklore thinking and the necessary genre standards. The surviving
  sketches of many failed opera “firstborns” are mainly exposition areas of the form — arias
  and choirs based on folk song material. The development sections of the form, as well as
  orchestration, turned out to be an insurmountable obstacle. By the end of the 1940s, a whole
  group of “failed operas” had already developed in Soviet music, each of which in its own way
  presents dramatic pages of the history of Soviet music as multinational art. Without attention to this “invincible” and often latent part of the artistic heritage, the completeness of the true
  conquests of Soviet national musical “construction” cannot be revealed.
metadata.lang: en_GB
metadata.name: dc.language.iso
metadata.value: ru
metadata.lang: en_GB
metadata.name: dc.publisher
metadata.value: St Petersburg State University
metadata.lang: en_GB
metadata.name: dc.relation.ispartofseries
metadata.value: Vestnik of St Petersburg University. Arts;Volume 10; Issue 4
metadata.lang: -
metadata.name: dc.subject
metadata.value: Soviet opera
metadata.lang: en_GB
metadata.name: dc.subject
metadata.value: national academic music
metadata.lang: en_GB
metadata.name: dc.subject
metadata.value: composer’s creativity
metadata.lang: en_GB
metadata.name: dc.subject
metadata.value: creative failure
metadata.lang: en_GB
metadata.name: dc.subject
metadata.value: Stalin’s cultural policy
metadata.lang: en_GB
metadata.name: dc.subject
metadata.value: adaptation of European genres
metadata.lang: en_GB
metadata.name: dc.subject
metadata.value: regional musical practices
metadata.lang: en_GB
metadata.name: dc.title
metadata.value: Untaken Peaks of ‘National Musical Construction’
metadata.lang: en_GB
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metadata.value: Article
metadata.lang: en_GB
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