CHINESE FOLK INSTRUMENTAL COMPOSITION 'COLORFUL CLOUDS IN PURSUIT OF THE MOON' IN PIANO TRANSCRIPTION BY WANG JIANZHONG AND TRANSCRIPTIONS FOR ORCHESTRA OF TRADITIONAL INSTRUMENTS: INTERACTION OF NATIONAL AND EUROPEAN TRADITIONS

Abstract

The relevance of the study is due to the need for a comprehensive study of the transcription genre in Chinese instrumental music both from the perspective of the interaction of national traditions and the achievements of world musical culture, and in the light of the variability of the embodiment of the original musical material in different instrumental versions. The aim of the article is to understand the stylistic and figurative-semantic transformations of traditional musical material, in particular, through a comparison of the piano piece “Colorful Clouds Chasing the Moon” by Wang Jianzhong, based on an ancient folk instrumental melody, with the arrangement of a folk theme for Chinese traditional instruments. The research methodology is based on a combination of structural-analytical, stylistic, semantic and comparative analysis. The scientific novelty of the study is based on the first experience of comparative analysis of the collected instrumental versions, which allows supplementing the generalization about the features of the functioning of the transcription genre in Chinese instrumental music of the 20th century. and the specifics of the existence of Chinese traditional music at the present stage. Conclusions. It has been established that the initial folklore invariant is flexibly and diversely embodied in different instrumental versions, which also demonstrate different ways of combining national and imported stylistic features. Wang Jianzhong's piano version combines elements of impressionistic stylistics and European principles of the development of thematics, but at the same time transmits the sound images of Chinese traditional plucked instruments and the aesthetics of Chinese poetry and painting. The version for the orchestra of Chinese traditional instruments, performed by the Chinese National Traditional Orchestra, demonstrates a combination of national and world instrumental traditions at the levels of orchestration, harmony, and thematics (a combination of Chinese and instrumental instruments, the European principle of orchestration, quartic harmonies characteristic of European academic music of the 20th century, improvement). Latin American rhythms), tending, on the one hand, to the direction of "world music", and on the other hand, demonstrating types for the Chinese tradition of the mode basis (pentatonic) and the static type of dramaturgy.