TO THE QUESTION OF SACRED MEANINGS IN N. SABITOV’S PIANO CYCLE "SEVEN TUNES"

Abstract

Interest in the piano work of the Bashkir composer Nariman Sabitov especially increased on the eve of the 95th anniversary of his birth. In 2004, the author of this article published an essay on the composer’s piano cycle "Seven Tunes". However, the perception of music changes over time. This article is supplemented by analytical studies related to the development of folklore, with a special view on poetic folklore in terms of sacred, magical and mythological problems. There are interesting works in this direction. They pushed the author to re-analyze the musical content of the cycle from this point of view. The emergence of new analysis tools made it possible to supplement the composer's idea of the piano cycle and to clarify some, at first glance, contradictory composer’s solutions. An updated look at the semantics of the piano cycle, in our opinion, expands the content component of the cycle as a whole and allows the performers to enrich their own concept when performing or independently studying the composition.