Abay’s music at the Kazakh dance lesson: To the experience of description of scientific and creative project

Abstract

The music of Abay Kunanbayev (1845–1904) — the famous Kazakh poeteducator, philosopher, composer — is the property of a world musical culture. Music finds its application in various fields of art and education. It could often find Abay’s music interpretation and comprehension in choreographic art. Nevertheless, most of Abay’s musical heritage as a rule remains beyond the scope and accessibility of a wide audience. In this article, the authors study and describe the experience of the implemented scientific-creative project, the which purpose was to expand the range of Abay’s works used in choreography on the example of a Kazakh dance lesson. The methodology used by the authors during the implementation of the project is based on the methods of archival, analytical and experimental work. The result of the authors’ research was the introduction of Abay’s musical compositions, which are rarely used in choreography, in training dance combinations for exercise at the stick and in the middle of the hall (for the female and male sections of the Kazakh dance lesson). In this article, based on the results of a scientific-creative project, the authors point to the self-sufficiency of Abay’s musical heritage and the possibility of its inclusion in a wide range of educational and creative processes not only in Kazakhstan, but also outside the country.