CHOREOGRAPHIC SYMPHONY: TO THE HISTORY OF MUSICAL-THEATRICAL GENRE

Abstract

An idea is given of the genre of a choreographic symphony in musical art (a ballet that received the author’s name of a choreographic symphony, indicating the dramatic complexity and independence of the music and, at the same time, its involvement in the process of choreographic reading) and choreography (scenic works of choreographers of the twentieth century built on dramaturgical principles of dance symphony). The study of the issues of interaction and synthesis of arts in the historical context is carried out in the mainstream of morphological analysis, using the historical and typological method of investigation. The article highlights the question of the historical origin of the genre choreographic symphony on the material of the dance suites of the French composer Jean-Féry Rebel (1666–1747), creator of a new type of instrumental ballet music. The content of the concept is regarded as a conjugation of instrumental-symphonic and plastic meanings in the art of music (scores of M. Ravel, A. Honegger, D. Milhaud, G. Migot) and choreography (in creative and theoretical comprehension of F. Lopuchov).  The conclusion is done about the meaning of the choreographic symphony as one of the semantic dominants of the theatrical art of the first third of the XX century.