The lyrical song “Nightingale of solov’yushko”. Source, variants, interpretations

Abstract

Often the folk motifs are the basis for the author’s poetic and musical work. But reverse processes are also possible when the author’s text generates a number of folklore versions. As an example, the poem “Bondage” was written by N.G. Tsyganov in the style of folk lyricism and it gave rise to a number of folklore texts. Different variants of those songs in turn served as material for composer’s arrangements. As a result, throughout the existence of the text its different versions have originated as well as different works based on the same source text. So to the poem of N.G. Tsyganov Sergei Rachmaninoff wrote his choir of the same name. Also V. Zakharov and S. Prokofi wrote their arrangements based on close versions of folk songs which were recorded in theVoronezhregion.

The aim of the work is to study the lyrical plangent song “Nightingalesolov’yushko”, including its origin history, spread and existence. To doing so it is necessary to set the features of the song type by comparing the options recorded in different territories. The rhythmic, compositional and fret models comparison allows to reveal the invariant of the song. On that basis it may be possible to trace the new life of the song in the Russian composers works.