“Prince’s Toys” ( Nikita Koshkin , 1980 ) - a suite for a classical guitar that includes six parts: “The Prince is Naughty”, “The Clockwork Monkey”, “Doll with Eyes Closing Eyes”, “Playing with Soldiers”, “Carriage”, “Grand Parade” dolls. In the suite for the first time used a lot of original game techniques that serve the greater colorfulness of the work.
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About suite
Created under the impression of the same picture by surrealist painter Giorgio de Chirico [1] . The work on the suite lasted long enough: the first and final versions separated for six years, the work was repeatedly redone [2] . The world premiere took place in 1980 in the Paris Big Hall of Radio France, the suite was performed by Czech guitarist Vladimir Mikulka [3] .
The Prince’s Toys is a software suite, and is the story of a capricious prince who was captured, kidnapped by toys that came to life. Here is such a romantic story [4]
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The most well-known versions of the suite are the versions of AK Frauchi and V. Mikulka . In addition, the play was included in the repertoire of A. A. Ponomarchuk , and A. V. Dervoed included "The Prince's Toys" in his debut CD.
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"The prince is capricious"
The title of the play is revealed in the short, aggressive melody of this piece. Sharpness and dissonance are designed to make the listener feel like a naughty child. The peak of such a mood becomes coarse arpeggios with strings over thresholds - where the string cannot sound in principle and the guitar becomes a percussion instrument.
"Clockwork Monkey"
Clicks on the strings and finger strokes on the fingerboard depict the mechanism of a monkey, and the jerky drawing of the play expresses the jerks and clumsiness of the toy.
"Eyeshadow doll"
The doll with closing eyes is from India , and therefore the melancholic beginning is replaced by smooth intervals with a pronounced Indian mood, and the alternation of melody and finger strokes on the stand seem to be a dream for both the doll and the listener. When the sixth string starts up the neck, rhythmic rattling begins - the sound of the sitar is imitated. The play ends with a beautiful group of flageolets .
"Playing with the Soldiers"
The melody begins with an imitation of the sounds of a military drum and a forge, and then the battle begins. The sounds of sabers, drums ... and then the battle fades away. Perhaps the prince himself became a soldier ?
Carriage
The beautiful and mobile beginning represents the carriage, the toy crew. But here the melody is faster and faster, nervousness appears and, in the final, we hear the receding cantering horses, which carry off the naughty carriage with the prince.
"Big Doll Parade"
Suite in the suite, where once again we see all the toys of the Prince and him among them. At the end of this part, and at the same time, at the end of the whole suite, a long and sad glissando is heard - the prince himself became one of the toys.
Notes
- ↑ Chekaeva N. M., Meshchanova L. N. The structure and principles of the formation of the repertoire in the class of guitar DSHI // Music and Youth: Theoretical and Practical Aspects: Coll. scientific Art. - Saratov: Science and Science Center, 2011
- ↑ Interview with Nikita Koshkin, composer and guitarist / N. A. Koshkin; conversations: S. Boyko // Guitar Player, № 2, 2006. Pp. 26-37 Archive dated May 18, 2015 on Wayback Machine
- ↑ Vladimir Mikulka // History of the Guitar in Persons: “Guitar in the Concert Leningrad-Petersburg”, No. 2-3 (11/12), 2014, p. 14
- ↑ Nikita Koshkin , anniversary concert in the Concert Hall. P. I. Tchaikovsky (1996)
Literature
- Notable debut // Soviet music . - State Music Publishing House, 1987. - Vol. 7-12 .
- Ghazaryan, Sergey. What can a guitar // In the world of musical instruments .
- Tkachenko, V.N. Specificity of N. Koshkin's guitar style (on the example of the suite “The Prince’s Toys”) / Reviewer of the article: I. Tsurkanenko - Kharkiv National University of Arts. I.P. Kotlyarevsky, 2015. - Vol. 1 . - pp . 51-59 .