Multidisciplinary Journal of Science and Technology

NIKOLAI NIKOLAEVICH SIDELNIKOV’S CHORAL CYCLE “ROMANCERO OF LOVE AND DEATH”: A STYLISTIC AND DRAMATURGICAL ANALYSIS.

Jabarova Charos

2nd-year Master’s student, Department of Academic Choral Conducting, GKUz

Keywords: N. N. Sidelnikov, twentieth-century choral music, Romancero of Love and Death, poetry of Federico García Lorca, musical dramaturgy, intonational analysis, choral texture, image of death, image of love.

Abstract

   The present study examines Nikolai Nikolaevich Sidelnikov’s choral cycle “Romancero of Love and Death” based on poems by Federico García Lorca as an integral artistic phenomenon within the context of Russian music of the late twentieth century. The research focuses on the dramaturgical structure of the cycle, the composer’s intonational thinking, and the methods of musical interpretation of poetic texts through choral writing. Genre-related, rhythmic, textural, and timbral features of the composition are analyzed, with particular attention given to its symbolic imagery built on the opposition between love and death. The study reveals the synthetic nature of the cycle, combining elements of national color, neo-folkloristic tendencies, and contemporary compositional techniques. The conclusions contribute to a deeper understanding of Sidelnikov’s choral legacy and may be applied in both scholarly research and performance practice.

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