THE SPECIFICITY OF CHAMBER VOCAL GENRES IN CHINESE CULTURE

Abstract

Chamber vocal music belongs to the most multifaceted fields of musical art, involving not only the expressiveness and cantilena of the singing voice, but also the poetry of speech. This article is devoted to one of the most pressing issues considered in the study of chamber vocal music, directly or indirectly present in numerous studies, ranging from small essays to major scientific works created by prominent musicologists, including B. V. Asafiev, V. A. Vasina- Grossman, L. A. Mazel. This question concerns the interaction of words and music in chamber vocal works, the peculiarities and conditions of this interaction, the genre organization of textual and musical sources, and the singing of the word. Here the problems of the artistic content are considered mainly on the examples of Chinese songs dedicated to the images of nature and the state of the human mental world. They are given in Russian translations. The popular Soviet song from the World War II "Dorozhenka", which became popular in China in a revised form, is considered separately.