Disposition and Musical Embodiment of the Texts in Y. Galperin’s Choral cycle “Just in Case”

The article deals with the disposition and musical embodiment of texts in the choral cycle “Just in case” (2004), written by the Russian-French composer Yuly Galperin (b. 1945). Basing on the spiritual lyrics of D. Kharms, children’s folklore texts (counting rhymes, puzzles, games), and the prayer “Kyrie Eleison”, using a montage technique, the composer creates a kaleidoscope of different patterns, moods “for all occasions”. There are shown the logic of the series’ composition, the system of the uniting intonational and textual arches. Developing the word game, a genre characteristic of the counting rhymes (permutations, substitutions, playing with meaningless syllables), the composer converts the original text, plays with meanings, modifies the initial ideas, “looks” between the lines. The combination of spiritual and folklore layers in one composition is a characteristic tendency of the modern music. The series represents a bright example of musical realization of the idea of universality of the phenomenon of game in the human culture.

Y. Galperin, D. Kharms, children’s game folklore, game function of the counting rhyme, montage method, chorus, interpretation, text disposition

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