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Valery Kikta’s ballets: the evolution of the genre

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DOI: 10.56620/2227-9997-2024-3-90-102

Marina V. Tsukanova

Academy of choral art of V. S. Popov, Moscow, Russia,
marina-tsukanova@yandex.ru, https://orcid.org/0009-0007-9028-851X
Abstract: The article is dedicated to the 60th anniversary of the creative activity of the composer Valery Grigorievich Kikta, Honored Art Worker of Russia and Ukraine, professor at the Tchaikovsky Moscow State Conservatory and the Gnesin Russian Academy of Music. The main objective is to introduce the problematics of the composer’s ballet work. The article considers the role of ballet in the author’s style, establishes the probable reasons for the commitment to this genre and provides meaningful primary images that inspired the master.
The research methodology combines musicological and general humanitarian approaches, including hermeneutic and comparative approaches; the «word of the composer» is essential. A number of questions are raised: the development of the Russian ballet tradition, the «plan of content» and «plan of expression», the specifics of genre processes, the synthesis of genres in various ballet works, the genre features of ballets with chorus. The special significance of the ballet «Andrei Rublev» (2016) as a conceptual work of synthetic genre, which reveals the cross-cutting symbolic leittems of creativity, is shown. The conclusion is made about Kikta’s ballets as an important component of the cultural and historical process of the twentieth and twenty-first centuries.

Keywords: composer, contemporary musical creativity, Valery Kikta, ballet, genre, chorus, author’s style

For citation: Tsukanova M. V. Valery Kikta’s ballets: the evolution of the genre. Scholarly papers of Gnesin Russian Academy of Music. 2024;(3):90-102. (In Russ.). DOI: 10.56620/2227-9997-2024-3-90-102

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