GENRE REFERENCE POINTS OF MODERN CHOIR MUSIC IN THE CONTEXT OF STYLE IDEAS OF “NEW SIMPLICITY”

Abstract

This is the meaning of the classical genres of the Christian church tradition in the works of composers at the turn of the XX–XXI century centuries. The main idea of “new simplicity” is defined, which is embodied in the general principle of “dissolution” of creative individualism in the canon of genre style. This defines the principle of “stylistic anonymity”, which characterizes the “new simplicity” and the current stage of development of European musical professionalism. It is noted that the idea of simplification of style in the music art at the turn of the XX–XXI century centuries naturally found its embodiment in the genre reference points of the “new simplicity”: they appealed to the established types of musical imagery and expressiveness, which evoke specific associations in the cultural memory of European person. Accordingly, choral works that reproduce Christian canonical genres (liturgy, requiem, mass, magnificat, etc.) in the modern compositional interpretation are very indicative.