POLYPHONY - a type of polyphony based on the simultaneous combination of two or more independent melodic lines. The term "polyphony" has Greek origin(πολνς - many, φωνή - sound). Appeared in musical theory and practice in the XX century. An earlier term is "Counterpoint" (from the Latin punctus contra punctum, note against note), found in treatises after 1330. Until that time, the term discantus was used (a voice attached to a given voice - cantus). Even earlier, in the 9th-12th centuries, polyphony was denoted by the word diafonia.

Classification of types of polyphony(according to S. Skrebkov).

1. Contrasting or multi-dark polyphony. It is based on the simultaneous sounding of melodies, contrasting in melodic and rhythmic patterns, and in vocal music, in text. It is possible to functionally divide the voices into the main (often borrowed) melody and the contrapunctuating one (attached to it).

Example 1. J. S. Bach. Choral prelude Es-dur “Wachet auf, ruft uns die Stimme” BWF 645.

2. Imitation polyphony. From the Latin Imitatio - imitation. Based on holding the same melody different voices sequentially, that is, with a shift in time. The voices are functionally equal (they are not divided into main and contrapuntal), melodically identical or similar, but at every moment of sound they contrast, that is, they form counterpoint.

Example 2. Josquin Despres. Missa “L home arme (sexti toni)”.

3. Sub-voice polyphony as a variety heterophony. Heterophony (from the Greek ετερος - another and φωνή - sound) is the oldest type of polyphony that exists in the oral tradition of folk music and liturgical singing. Written samples are either a recording of a sung version or a composer's pastiche.

Heterophony is based on the simultaneous sounding of several versions of the same tune. Branches from the monody arise over a short distance and form, in the main, duplications. One of the reasons for this phenomenon is the oral nature of monodic culture. Oral types of creativity presuppose the existence in the mind of the performer of a certain melodic fundamental principle, according to which each voice sings its own version. The second reason is the natural differences in the ranges of the performers' voices.

In subvocal polyphony, branches from the main tune are more independent than in other varieties of heterophony. Contrasting polyphony is formed in some sections. Voice functions are divided into main voice and subvoice.

2. episodic branches from the main melody (accompaniment) in the middle of the line (verse) during syllabic chant,

3. return to unison at the end of the line (verse),

5. simultaneous pronunciation of syllables of the text,

6. relatively free use dissonances.

Example 3. Russian folk song "Green Grove".

Main literature.

Simakova N. A. Strict style counterpoint and fugue. History, theory, practice. Part 1. Strict style counterpoint as artistic tradition and academic discipline. - M., 2002.

Skrebkov S. S. Textbook of polyphony. - M., 1965.

lat. polyphonia, from other Greek. πολυφωνία - literally: "polyphony" from other Greek. πολυ-, πολύς - "a lot" + other Greek. φωνή - "sound"

A type of polyphony based on the same time. the sound of two or more melodies. lines or melodic. votes. “Polyphony, in its highest sense,” pointed out A. N. Serov, “should be understood as the harmonic merging together of several independent melodies, going in several voices at the same time, together. In rational speech it is unthinkable that, for example, several persons spoke together, each his own, and so that confusion, incomprehensible nonsense does not come out of this, but, on the contrary, an excellent general impression. In music such a miracle is possible; it constitutes one of the aesthetic specialties of our art. "The concept of "P." coincides with the broad meaning of the term counterpoint. N. Ya. Myaskovsky attributed the combination of melodically independent voices and the combination of several thematic elements to the field of counterpoint skill.

Polyphony is one of the most important means of music. composition and art. expressiveness. Numerous P.'s techniques serve to diversify the content of the muses. production, implementation and development of arts. images; by means of P. it is possible to modify, compare and combine muses. Topics. P. relies on the patterns of melody, rhythm, mode, and harmony. Instrumentation, dynamics, and other components of music also influence the expressiveness of musical techniques. Depending on the definition music context may change art. the meaning of certain means polyphonic. presentation. There are different music forms and genres used to create products. polyphonic warehouse: fugue, fughetta, invention, canon, polyphonic variations, in the 14-16 centuries. - motet, madrigal, etc. Polyphonic. episodes (for example, fugato) are also found in other forms.

Polyphonic (contrapuntal) warehouse of music. prod. opposes homophonic harmonic (see Harmony, Homophony), where voices form chords and Ch. melodic line, most often in the upper voice. The core feature of polyphonic the texture that distinguishes it from the homophonic-harmonic one is fluidity, which is achieved by erasing the caesuras that separate the constructions, by the inconspicuousness of the transitions from one to another. Polyphonic voices. constructions rarely cadence at the same time, usually their cadences do not coincide, which causes a feeling of continuity of movement as a special expression. quality inherent in P. While some voices begin the presentation of a new or repetition (imitation) of the previous melody (theme), others have not yet completed the previous one:

Palestrina. Reacherkar in I tone.

At such moments, knots of complex structural plexuses are formed, combining in simultaneity the different functions of the muses. forms. Then comes the definition. rarefaction of tension, the movement is simplified up to the next node of complex plexuses, etc. In such dramatic conditions proceeds the development of polyphonic. prod., especially if they allow large art. tasks differ in depth of content.

The combination of voices along the vertical is regulated in P. by the laws of harmony inherent in the definition. era or style. “As a result, no counterpoint can exist without harmony, because any combination of simultaneous melodies at its separate points forms consonances or chords. In genesis, no harmony is possible without counterpoint, since the desire to combine several melodies at the same time precisely caused the existence of harmony” (G A. Laroche). In strict-style pavement of the 15th-16th centuries. dissonances were located between consonances and required smooth movement; dissonances were not connected by smoothness and could pass one into another, pushing the modal-melodic resolution to more late time. In modern music, with its "emancipation" of dissonance, dissonant combinations of polyphonic. votes are allowed at any length.

Types of P. are diverse and difficult to classify due to the high fluidity inherent in this kind of music. lawsuit.

In some bunks. music common in cultures subvocal view P., which is based on Ch. melodic voice, from which melodic branches off. turnovers of other voices, echoes, varying and replenishing the main. melody, at times merging with it, in particular in cadences (see heterophony).

In prof. art-ve P. developed other melodic. ratios that contribute to the expressiveness of voices and all polyphonic. whole. Here, the type of piping depends on what the horizontal terms are: if the melody (theme) is imitated in different voices, an imitation pissing is formed, and if the combined melodies are different, a contrasting pissing is formed. This distinction is conditional, because when imitation in circulation, increase, decrease, and even more so in the sideways movement, the differences in melodies along the horizontal intensify and bring the P. closer to the contrast:

J. S. Bach. Organ fugue in C-dur (BWV 547).

In some cases polyphonic combination, starting as an imitation, in a certain. the moment turns into a contrast and vice versa - from a contrast, a transition to an imitation is possible. Thus, an inextricable connection between the two types of P. is revealed. In its pure form, imitations. P. is presented in a single-dark canon, for example. in the 27th variation from Bach's Goldberg Variations (BWV 988):

To avoid monotony in music. The content of the canon of the proposta is built here in such a way that there is a systematic alternation of melodic-rhythmic. figures. During the risposta, they lag behind the proposta figures, and intonation appears along the vertical. contrast, although the melodies are the same horizontally.

Increasing and falling intonation method. activity in the proposte of the canon, which ensures the intensity of the form as a whole, was already known in P. of a strict style, as evidenced, for example, by the three-headed. canon "Benedictes" of the mass "Ad fugam" of Palestrina:

T. o., imitation. P. in the form of a canon is by no means alien to contrast, but this contrast arises along the vertical, while horizontally its terms are devoid of contrast due to the identity of melodies in all voices. In this, it fundamentally differs from contrasting P., which combines horizontally unequal melodic. elements.

The final one-dark canon as a form of imitation. P. in the case of a free extension of his votes goes into contrast P., which, in turn, can go into the canon:

G. Dufay. Duo from Mass "Ave regina caelorum", Gloria.

The described form connects P.'s types in time, across: one type follows another. However, the music of different eras and styles is also rich in their simultaneous combinations along the vertical: imitation is accompanied by contrast, and vice versa. Some voices unfold imitatively, others create a contrast to them or in free counterpoint;

the combination of proposta and risposta recreates here the form of an ancient organum), or, in turn, forming an imitation. construction.

In the latter case, a double (triple) imitation or canon is formed if the imitation extends for a duration. time.

D. D. Shostakovich. 5th symphony, movement I.

The interrelation of imitative and contrasting pavement in double canons sometimes leads to the fact that their initial sections are perceived as one-dark imitative, and only gradually do the propostes begin to differ. This happens when the whole work is characterized by a common mood, and the difference between the two propostas is not only not emphasized, but, on the contrary, is masked.

In Et resurrexit of the canonical mass of Palestrina, the double (two-volume) canon is veiled by the similarity of the initial sections of the proposta, as a result of which at the first moment a simple (one-volume) four-voice canon is heard and only later the difference between the propostas becomes noticeable and the form of the two-volume canon is realized:

How diverse the concept and manifestation of contrast in music is, just as diverse is the contrasting P. In the simplest cases of this type of P., the voices are completely equal in rights, which is especially true for contrapuntal. fabrics in production strict style, where polyphony has not yet developed. theme as a concentrated one-headed. basic expression. thoughts, esp. music content. With the formation of such a theme in the work of J. S. Bach, G. F. Handel and their major predecessors and followers, contrasting P. allows the primacy of the theme over its accompanying voices - counterposition (in fugue), counterpoints. At the same time, in cantatas and works. Other genres in Bach are diversely represented by contrasting verse of another kind, which is formed from the combination of a choral melody with a polygonal melody. fabric of other voices. In such cases, the differentiation of the components of the contrasting voice becomes even clearer, brought to the level of genre specificity of polyphonic voices. whole. In instr. music of later times, the delimitation of the functions of voices leads to a special kind of "P. layers", combining one-headed. melodies in octave doublings and, often, imitations with whole harmonics. complexes: the upper layer is melodic. the bearer of thematism, the middle one is harmonic. complex, lower - melodic mobile bass. "P. Plastov" is exceptionally effective in dramaturgy. relation and is not applied in a single stream for a long time, but in a certain way. production nodes, in particular in the climactic sections, being the result of growths. These are the climaxes in the first movements of Beethoven's 9th symphony and Tchaikovsky's 5th symphony:

L. Beethoven. 9th symphony, movement I.

P. I. Tchaikovsky. 5th symphony, movement II.

Dramatically tense "P. Plastov" can be contrasted with calm-epic. connection is independent. that, an example of which is the reprise of the symphony. paintings by A. P. Borodin "In Central Asia", which combines two diverse themes - Russian and Eastern - and is also the pinnacle in the development of the work.

It is very rich in manifestations of contrast P. opera music, where widely used diff. kinds of combinations voices and complexes that characterize the images of the characters, their relationships, confrontation, conflicts and, in general, the whole situation of the action. The variety of forms of contrasting piano cannot serve as a basis for rejecting this generalizing concept, just as musicology does not reject the term, for example, "sonata form", although the interpretation and application of this form by I. Haydn and D. D. Shostakovich, L. Beethoven and P. Hindemith are very different.

In European P.'s music originated in the depths of early polyphony (organum, treble, motet, etc.), gradually taking shape in its independent form. view. The earliest information that has come down to us about domestic polyphony in Europe refers to the British Isles. On the continent, polyphony developed not so much under the influence of English, but because of internal. reasons. First of all, it appears that primitive form contrasting P., formed from counterpoint to a given choral or other genre of melody. The theorist John Cotton (late 11th - early 12th centuries), outlining the theory of polyphony (two-voice), wrote: "Diaphony is a coordinated divergence of voices performed by at least two singers so that one leads the main melody, and the other skillfully wanders around to other sounds; both of them at certain moments converge in unison or octave. This method of singing is usually called organum, because the human voice, skillfully diverging (from the main one), sounds like an instrument called organ. The word diaphony means a double voice or divergence of voices ". A form of imitation, apparently folk origin- "very early the people knew how to sing strictly canonically" (R.I. Gruber), which led to the formation of independent. prod. using imitation. This is the double hexagon. the endless "Summer Canon" (c. 1240), written by J. Fornset, a monk from Reading (England), testifying not so much to maturity as to the prevalence of imitation (in this case, canonical) technology by the middle. 13th c. Scheme of the "Summer Canon":

The primitive form of contrasting polyphony (S. S. Skrebkov refers it to the field of heterophony) is found in an early motet of the 13th and 14th centuries, where polyphony was expressed in the combination of several. melodies (usually three) with different texts, sometimes on different languages. An anonymous motet of the 13th century can serve as an example:

Motet "Mariac assumptio - Huius chori".

The choral melody "Kyrie" is placed in the lower voice, counterpoints to it with texts in Latin are placed in the middle and upper voices. and French languages, melodically close to the chorale, but still possessing a certain eye are independent. intonation-rhythm. pattern. The form of the whole - variations - is formed on the basis of the repetition of the choral melody, acting as a cantus firmus with melodically changing upper voices. In G. de Machaux's motet "Trop plus est bele - Biauté paree - Je ne suis mie" (c. 1350), each voice has its own melody with its own. text (all in French), and the lower one, with its more even movement, also represents a repeating cantus firmus, and as a result, a polyphonic form is also formed. variations. This is typical. samples of the early motet - a genre that undoubtedly played an important role on the way to the mature form of P. The generally accepted division of the mature polyphonic. claims for strict and free styles correspond to both theoretical and historical. signs. Strict-style piping is characteristic of the Dutch, Italian, and other schools of the 15th and 16th centuries. It was replaced by free-style P., which continues to develop to this day. In the 17th century advanced along with others. nat. school, in the works of the greatest polyphonists Bach and Handel reached in the 1st half. 18th century polyphonic vertices lawsuit. Both styles within their eras have passed the definition. evolution, closely connected with the general development of the muses. art-va and its inherent laws of harmony, harmony, and other musical expressions. funds. The border between the styles is the turn of the 16th-17th centuries, when, in connection with the birth of the opera, the homophonic-harmonious style clearly took shape. warehouse and two modes were established - major and minor, to which the whole of Europe began to focus. music, incl. and polyphonic.

The works of the era of strict style "amaze with the loftiness of flight, severe grandeur, some kind of azure, serene purity and transparency" (Laroche). They used preim. wok. genres, instruments were used to dub the songs. votes and extremely rarely - for independent. execution. The system of ancient diatonic frets, in which the lead-in intonations of the future major and minor gradually began to break through. The melody was distinguished by its smoothness, the jumps were usually balanced by the subsequent move in the opposite direction, the rhythm, which obeyed the laws of mensural theory (see Mensural notation), was calm and unhurried. In combinations of voices, consonances predominated, dissonance rarely appeared as independent ones. consonance, usually formed by passing and auxiliary. sounds on weak beats of the measure or prepared delay on downbeat. "... All parts in res facta (here - written counterpoint, as opposed to improvised) - three, four or more, - everyone depends on each other, i.e. the order and laws of consonances in any voice should be applied to all other voices "- wrote the theorist Johannes Tinktoris (1446-1511). Main genres: chanson (song), motet, madrigal (small forms), mass, requiem (large forms).Techniques of thematic development: repetition, most of all represented by stretto imitation and canon, counterpoint, including mobile counterpoint, contrast in the compositions of singing voices. works of a strict style were created by the method of variation, which allows: 1) variational identity, 2) variational germination, 3) variational renewal In the first case, the identity of some components of the polyphonic whole was preserved while varying others; in the second, melodic identity with the previous construction remained only in the initial section, the continuation was different, in the third - the thematic material was updated while maintaining the general nature of intonations.The method of variation extended to the horizontal and vertical, to small and large forms, suggested the possibility of melodic. the changes introduced with the help of circulation, the movement of the movement and its circulation, as well as the variation of the metro rhythm - increases, decreases, skipping pauses, etc. The simplest forms of variational identity are the transfer of finished contrapuntal. combinations to other heights (transposition) or the attribution of new voices to such a combination - see, for example, in "Missa prolationum" by J. de Okeghem, where melodic. the phrase to the words "Christe eleison" is sung first by alto and bass, and then repeated by soprano and tenor a second higher. In the same op. Sanctus consists of the repetition of a sixth higher by the soprano and tenor parts of what was previously assigned to the alto and bass (A), which are now counterpointed (B) to imitating voices, but changes in duration and melodic. the figure of the initial combination does not occur:

Variational renewal in a major form was achieved in those cases when the cantus firmus changed, but came from the same source as the first (see below about the masses "Fortuna desperata" and others).

The most important representatives of the strict style P. are G. Dufay, J. Okegem, J. Obrecht, Josquin Despres, O. Lasso, and Palestrina. Remaining within the framework of this style, their production. demonstrate different attitude to the forms of music-thematic. development, imitation, contrast, harmony. fullness of sound, they also use cantus firmus in different ways. Thus, the evolution of imitation is visible, the most important of the polyphonic. means of music expressiveness. Initially, imitations were used in unison and octave, then other intervals began to be used, among which the fifth and fourth are especially important as they prepared the fugue presentation. Imitations developed thematically. material and could appear anywhere in the form, but their dramaturgy gradually began to be established. purpose: a) as a form of initial, exposition presentation; b) as a contrast to non-imitation constructions. Dufay and Okeghem almost never used the first of these techniques, while it became a constant in production. Obrecht and Josquin Despres and almost obligatory for polyphonic. forms of Lasso and Palestrina; the second one (Dufay, Ockegem, Obrecht) was originally put forward with the silence of the voice leading the cantus firmus, and later began to cover entire sections of the large form. Such are Agnus Dei II in Josquin Despres' mass "L" homme armé super voces musicales" (see the musical example from this mass in the article Canon) and in the masses of Palestrina, for example in the six-part "Ave Maria". The canon in its various forms (in pure form or accompanied by free voices) was introduced here and in similar samples at the final stage of a large composition as a generalization factor. In this role later, in the practice of free style, the canon almost never appeared. In the four-headed mass "Oh, Rex gloriae "Palestrina's two sections - Ve-nedictus and Agnus - are written as exact two-headed canons with free voices, creating a contrast of soulful and smooth to the more energetic sound of the previous and subsequent constructions. In a number of canonical masses of Palestrina, the opposite method is also found: lyrical in content Crucifixus and Benedictus are based on non-imitative P., which contrasts with other (canonical) parts of the work.

Large polyphonic forms of strict style in thematic. respect can be divided into two categories: those with cantus firmus and those without it. The former were often created on early stages development of style, on the subsequent same cantus firmus gradually begins to disappear from creativity. practices, and large forms are created on the basis of the free development of thematic. material. At the same time, cantus firmus becomes the basis of instr. prod. 16 - 1st floor. 17th century (A. and G. Gabrieli, Frescobaldi and others) - ricercara and others and receives a new embodiment in the choral arrangements of Bach and his predecessors.

Forms, in which there is a cantus firmus, are cycles of variations, since the same theme is carried out in them several times. times in different contrapuntal environment. Such a large form usually has introductory-intermedia sections where the cantus firmus is absent, and the presentation is based either on its intonations or on neutral ones. In some cases, the ratio of the sections containing the cantus firmus with the introductory-intermediate ones obey certain numerical formulas (the masses of J. Okegem, J. Obrecht), while in others they are free. The length of the introductory-intermediate and cantus firmus constructions can vary, but it can also be constant for the entire work. The latter include, for example, the mass "Ave Maria" of Palestrina, mentioned above, where both types of constructions have 21 measures each (in conclusions, the last sound is sometimes stretched over several measures), and this is how the whole form is formed: 23 times the cantus firmus is performed and so many same introductory-intermedia constructions. P. of a strict style came to a similar form as a result of lengthy. evolution of the very principle of variation. In a number of productions cantus firmus carried out the borrowed melody in parts, and only in conclusion. section it appeared in full (Obrecht, masses "Maria zart", "Je ne demande"). The latter was a thematic technique. synthesis, very important for the unity of the whole composition. Changes, usual for P. of a strict style, made in the cantus firmus (rhythmic increase and decrease, circulation, rakhodnoe movement, etc.), concealed, but did not destroy the variation. Therefore, the variational cycles appeared in a very heterogeneous form. Such, for example, is Obrecht's "Fortuna desperate" mass cycle: the cantus firmus, taken from the middle voice of the chanson of the same name, is divided into three parts (ABC) and then the cantus is introduced from its upper voice (DE). General structure cycle: Kyrie I - A; Kyrie II - A B C; Gloria - in the AC (in A - in the crawling movement); Credo - CAB (C - in the rake movement); Sanctus - A B C D; Osanna - ABC; Agnus I - A B C (and the same in reduction); Agnus III - D E (and the same in reduction).

Variation is presented here in the form of identity, in the form of germination, and even in the form of renewal, since in Sanctus and Agnus III the cantus firmus changes. Similarly, in the mass "Fortuna desperate" by Josquin Deprez, three types of variation are used: the cantus firmus is first taken from the middle voice of the same chanson (Kyrie, Gloria), then from the upper (Credo) and from the lower voice (Sanctus), in the 5th part of the mass, the upper voice of the chanson (Agnus I) is used, and in conclusion (Agnus III) the cantus firmus returns to the first melody. If we designate each cantus firmus with a symbol, then we get the scheme: A B C B1 A. The form of the whole is therefore based on different types variation and also involves repetitiveness. The same method is used in Josquin Deprez's Mass "Malheur me bat".

Opinion on neutralization thematic. material in polyphonic. prod. strict style due to the stretching of durations in the voice leading the cantus firmus, is only partly true. In many In some cases, composers resorted to this technique only in order to gradually approach the true rhythm of everyday melody, lively and direct, from long durations, to make its sound, as it were, the culmination of the thematic. development.

Thus, for example, the cantus firmus in Dufay's mass "La mort de Saint Gothard" successively passes from long sounds to short ones:

As a result, the melody sounded, apparently, in the rhythm in which it was known in everyday life.

The same principle is used in the Mass "Malheur me bat" by Obrecht. We present her cantus firmus together with the published source - three-headed. Okegema chanson of the same name:

I. Obrecht. Mass "Malheur me bat".

J. Okegem. Chanson "Malheur me bat".

The effect of gradual discovery of the true basis of production. was extremely important in the conditions of that time: the listener suddenly recognized a familiar song. The secular lawsuit came into conflict with the requirements for the Church. music by the clergy, which caused the persecution of churchmen against the strict-style P. From a historical point of view, the most important process of releasing music from the power of religions took place. ideas.

The variational method of thematic development extended not only to a large composition, but also to its parts: cantus firmus in the form of a separate. small revolutions ostinato was repeated, and subvariation cycles were formed inside the large form, especially frequent in the production. Obrekht. For example, Kyrie II of the mass "Malheur me bat" is a variation on the short theme ut-ut-re-mi-mi-la, and Agnus III in the mass "Salve dia parens" is a variation on the short formula la-si-do-si , gradually shrinking from 24 to 3 measures.

Single repetitions immediately following their "theme" form the gender of a two-sentence period, which is very important from the historical point of view. point of view, because prepares a homophonic form. Such periods, however, are very fluid. They are rich in products. Palestrina (see the example on column 345), they are also found in Obrecht, Josquin Despres, Lasso. Kyrie from Op. the last "Missa ad imitationem moduli "Puisque j" ai perdu"" is a period of the classical type of two sentences of 9 bars.

So inside the muses. forms of strict style, principles were brewing, to-rye in the later classic. music, not so much in polyphonic as in homophonic-harmonic, were the main ones. Polyphonic prod. sometimes they included chord episodes, which also gradually prepared the transition to homophony. The tonal relations also evolved in the same direction: the expositional sections of the forms in Palestrina, as the finalist of the strict style, clearly gravitate towards tonic-dominant relations, then a departure towards the subdominant and a return to the main system are noticeable. In the same spirit, the sphere of large-form cadences unfolds: the middle cadences usually end authentically in the key of the 5th style, the final cadences on the tonic are often plagal.

Small forms in strict-style poetry were dependent on the text: within the stanza of the text, development took place through the repetition (imitation) of the theme, while the change of the text entailed updating the thematic. material, which, in turn, could be presented imitatively. Music promotion. forms occurred as the text progressed. This form is especially characteristic of the motet of the 15th-16th centuries. and received the name motet form. The madrigals of the 16th century were also constructed in this way, where a form of the reprise type occasionally appears, for example. in the Palestrina madrigal "I vaghi fiori".

The large forms of the strict-style P., where the cantus firmus is absent, develop according to the same motet type: each new phrase of the text leads to the formation new muses. themes developed by imitation. At short text it repeats itself with new music. themes that bring a variety of shades will express. character. The theory does not yet have other generalizations about the structure of this kind of polyphonic. forms.

The link between the strict and free style P. can be considered the work of the composers of the con. 16th-17th centuries J. P. Sweelinka, J. Frescobaldi, G. Schutz, C. Monteverdi. Sweelinck often used variational techniques of a strict style (a theme in magnification, etc.), but at the same time, he has widely represented modal chromatisms, possible only in a free style; "Fiori musicali" (1635) and other organ Op. The Frescobaldi contain variations on the cantus firmus in various modifications, but they also contain rudiments of fugue forms; the diatonicism of the old modes was colored by chromatisms in the themes and their development. At Monteverdi otd. production, ch. arr. ecclesiastical, bear the stamp of a strict style (the Mass "In illo tempore", etc.), while madrigals almost break with it and should be attributed to a free style. Contrasting P. in them is associated with characteristic. intonations that convey the meaning of the word (joy, sadness, sigh, flight, etc.). Such is the madrigal "Piagn" e sospira "(1603), where the initial phrase "I cry and sigh" is especially emphasized, contrasting with the rest of the story:

In instr. prod. 17th century - suites, ancient sonatas da chiesa, etc. - usually had polyphonic. parts or at least polyphonic. techniques, incl. fugue order, which prepared the formation of instr. fugues stand on their own. genre or in conjunction with the prelude (toccata, fantasy). The work of I. Ia. Froberger, G. Muffat, G. Purcell, D. Buxtehude, I. Pachelbel, and other composers was an approach to the high development of the free style in production. J. S. Bach and G. F. Handel. P. free style is stored in the wok. genres, but its main conquest - instr. music, by the 17th century. separated from the vocal and rapidly developing. Melodika - basic. factor P. - in instr. genres was freed from the restrictive conditions of the wok. music (the range of singing voices, the convenience of intonation, etc.) and in its new form contributed to the diversity of polyphonic. combinations, the breadth of polyphony. compositions, in turn affecting the wok. P. Ancient diatonic. frets gave way to two dominant - major and minor. Dissonance, which became the strongest means of modal tension, received great freedom. Mobile counterpoint and imitation began to be used more fully. forms, among which there was an appeal (inversio, moto contraria) and an increase (augmentation), but the rakhodny movement and its appeal almost disappeared, dramatically changing the whole look and expressing the meaning of a new, individualized theme of free style. The system of variational forms based on cantus firmus, gradually faded away, replaced by a fugue that matured in the bowels of the old style." Of all the types of musical composition, the fugue is the only kind of it that could always withstand all the whims of fashion. , composed a hundred years ago, are still as new as if they were composed today, "- noted F.V. Marpurg.

The type of melody in P. of the free style is completely different than in the strict style. The unrestricted soaring of melodic-linear voices is caused by the introduction of instr. genres. "... In vocal writing, melodic shaping is limited by the narrow limits of the volume of voices and their lesser mobility compared to instruments," E. Kurt pointed out. "And historical development came to true linear polyphony only with the development of instrumental style, starting from the 17th century. In addition Moreover, vocal works, not only due to the smaller volume and mobility of voices, generally tend to chord roundness. Vocal writing cannot have the same independence from the chord phenomenon as instrumental polyphony, in which we find examples of the freest combination of lines. " However, the same can be attributed to wok. prod. Bach (cantatas, masses), Beethoven ("Missa solemnis"), as well as polyphonic. prod. 20th century

Intonationally, the theme of P.'s free style was to a certain extent prepared by a strict style. These are the declamations. melodic revolutions with sound repetition, starting with a weak beat and going to a strong one for a second, a third, a fifth, and other intervals up, moves to a fifth from the tonic, outlining the modal foundations (see examples) - these and similar intonations later formed in free style "core" of the theme, followed by a "deployment" based on the general forms of melodic. movements (gamma-like, etc.). The fundamental difference between the themes of the free style and the themes of the strict style lies in their design in independent, monophonic-sounding and complete constructions, concisely expressing the main content of the product, while the thematicism in the strict style was fluid, set out in stretto in conjunction with other imitating voices and only in in combination with them, its content was revealed. The contours of the strict style theme were lost in the continuous movement and the entry of voices. In the following example, intonationally similar samples of strict and free style thematics are compared - from the mass "Pange lingua" by Josquin Despres and from Bach's fugue on a theme by G. Legrenzi.

In the first case, a two-headed is deployed. canon, head turns to-rogo flow into general melodic. forms of non-cadence movement, in the second - a clearly outlined theme is shown, modulating into the key of a dominant with a cadence completion.

Thus, despite the intonation. similarity, the thematic of both samples is very different.

The special quality of Bach's polyphonic thematism (meaning primarily the themes of fugues) as the pinnacle of P. free style consists in composure, richness of potential harmony, in tonal, rhythmic, and sometimes genre specificity. In polyphonic topics, in their one-headed. projection Bach generalized modal-harmonic. forms created by his time. These are: the TSDT formula, emphasized in the themes, the breadth of sequences and tonal deviations, the introduction of the II low (“Neapolitan”) step, the use of a reduced seventh, a reduced fourth, a reduced third and fifth, formed from the conjugation of an introductory tone in a minor with other steps of the mode. Bach's thematism is characterized by melodiousness, which comes from Nar. intonations and choral melodies; at the same time, the culture of instr is also strong in it. melodics. A melodious beginning may be characteristic of instr. themes, instrumental - vocal. An important connection between these factors is created by hidden melodic. line in the themes - it flows more measuredly, giving the theme melodious properties. Both intonations. sources are especially clear in those cases when the melodious "core" finds development in the rapid movement of the continuing part of the theme, in the "deployment":

J. S. Bach. Fugue C-dur.

J. S. Bach. Duo a-moll.

In complex fugues, the function of the "core" is often taken over by the first theme, the function of deployment - by the second ("The Well-Tempered Clavier", vol. 1, cis-moll fugue).

Fugue is usually classified as a genus of imitations. P., which is generally true, because a bright theme and its imitation dominate. But in general theory in terms of fugue, it is a synthesis of imitation and contrast P., because already the first imitation (answer) is accompanied by a counterposition that is not identical to the theme, and when other voices enter, the contrast is further enhanced.

J. S. Bach. Organ fugue a-moll.

This provision is especially important for Bach's fugue, where the opposition often claims to be the second theme. In the general structure of the fugue, as well as in the field of thematism, Bach reflected the main trend of his time - the trend towards sonata, suitable for his classic. stage - sonata form Viennese classics; a number of his fugues approach the sonata structure (Kyrie I of the Mass in h-moll).

Contrasting P. is represented in Bach not only by combinations of themes and oppositions with themes in the fugue, but also by the counterpointing of genre melodies: chorales and independent ones. accompanying voices, several. dec. melodies (eg, "Quodlibet" in the "Goldberg Variations"), finally, P.'s connection with homophonic harmonic. formations. The latter is constantly found in works that use basso continuo as an accompaniment to polyphonic. construction. Whatever form is used by Bach - an old sonata, an old two- or three-part, rondo, variations, etc. - the texture in them is most often polyphonic: imitations are constant. sections, canonical sequences, mobile counterpoint, etc., which in general characterizes Bach as a polyphonist. Historical the significance of Bach's polyphony lies in the fact that the main principles of thematism and thematic have been established in it. development, allowing to create highly artistic. samples full of philosophical depth and vital immediacy. Bach's polyphony has been and remains a model for all subsequent generations.

What has been said about the thematicism and polyphony of Bach fully applies to the polyphony of Handel. Its basis, however, lay in the operatic genre, which Bach did not touch at all. Polyphonic Handel's forms are quite varied and historically significant. Of particular note is the dramaturgy. function of fugues in Handel's oratorios. Closely related to the dramaturgy of these works, the fugues are arranged strictly according to plan: in the starting Point (in the overture), in large mass scenes of generalizing content as an expression of the image of the people, in the conclusion. section of an abstractly jubilant character ("Hallelujah").

Although in the era of the Viennese classics (second half of the 18th and early 19th centuries) the center of gravity in the field of texture shifted towards homophony, still gradually occupied an important, although quantitatively smaller place than before, among them. In production J. Haydn and especially W. A. ​​Mozart often meet polyphonic. forms - fugues, canons, mobile counterpoint, etc. Mozart's texture is characterized by the activation of voices, the saturation of their intonation. independence. Formed synthetic. structures that combine sonata form with fugue, etc. Homophone forms include small polyphonic. sections (fugato, systems of imitations, canons, contrasting counterpunctuation), but their chain forms a large polyphonic. a form of a dispersed character, systematically developing and in the vertex samples significantly influencing the perception of homophonic sections and the entire Op. generally. Among these peaks are the finale of the symphony "Jupiter" by Mozart (K.-V. 551), his own Fantasy in f-moll (K.-V. 608). The path to them lay through the form of the finals - Haydn's 3rd symphony, Mozart's G-dur quartet (K.-V. 387), the finals of his D-dur and Es-dur quintets (K.-V. 593, 614).

In production Beethoven's attraction to P. manifested itself very early and in his mature work led to the replacement of the sonata development by the fugue (finale of the sonata op. 101), the displacement of other forms of the finale by the fugue (sonatas op. 102 No 2, op. 106), the introduction of the fugue at the beginning of the cycle (quartet op. 131), in variation (op. 35, op. 120, finale of the 3rd symphony, Allegretto of the 7th symphony, finale of the 9th symphony, etc.) and to the complete polyphonization of the sonata form. The last of these methods was logical. a consequence of the growth of a large polyphonic. form that embraced all the constituent elements of the sonata allegro, when P. began to dominate its texture. These are the 1st parts of the sonata op. 111, 9th symphony. Fugue in Op. late period of Beethoven's work - an image of effectiveness as an antithesis to images of sorrow and reflection, but at the same time - and unity with them (sonata op. 110, etc.).

In the era of romanticism, painting received a new interpretation in the works of F. Schubert, R. Schumann, G. Berlioz, F. Liszt, and R. Wagner. Schubert gave song forms to fugue forms in vocal (masses, Miriam's Song of Victory) and instrumental (f-moll fantasy, etc.) compositions; Schumann's texture is saturated with internal singing voices ("Kreisleriana" and others); Berlioz was attracted to contrasting themes. compounds ("Harold in Italy", "Romeo and Julia", etc.); in Liszt, P. is influenced by images that are opposite in character - demonic (sonata h-moll, symphony "Faust"), mournfully tragic (symphony "Dante"), choral-peaceful ("Dance of Death"); the richness of the Wagnerian texture is in filling it with the movement of the bass and middle voices. Each of the great masters introduced into P. the features inherent in his style. P. used a lot of means and significantly expanded them in the 2nd floor. 19 - beg. 20th century I. Brahms, B. Smetana, A. Dvorak, A. Bruckner, G. Mahler, who preserved the classic. the tonal basis of the harmonica. combinations. P. was especially widely used by M. Reger, who recreated some of Bach's polyphonic. forms, eg. completion of the cycle of variations with a fugue, prelude and fugue as a genre; polyphonic completeness and variety were combined with compaction of harmonies. tissue and its chromatization. A new direction associated with dodecaphony (A. Schoenberg, A. Berg, A. Webern, etc.) breaks with the classical. tonality and for the series uses the forms used in the production. strict style (direct and sideways movements with their appeals). This similarity, however, is purely external due to the cardinal difference in thematics - a simple song melody taken from existing song genres (cantus firmus in a strict style), and an amelodic dodecaphone series. Western European music of the 20th century gave high samples of P. outside the system of dodecaphony (P. Hindemith, as well as M. Ravel, I. F. Stravinsky).

Creatures. contribution to the claim of P. was made by Russian. classics 19 - beg. 20th century Rus. prof. later Western European music entered the path of developed polyphony - its earliest form (1st half of the 17th century) was three-line, representing a combination of a melody borrowed from the Znamenny chant (the so-called "path") with voices attributed to it above and below ("top", "bottom"), very sophisticated in rhythmic. relation. Demestvo polyphony also belongs to the same type (the 4th voice was called "demestvo"). Three lines and demestvennoe polyphony were sharply criticized by contemporaries (I. T. Korenev) for the lack of harmonies. connection of votes and to con. 17th century exhausted themselves. Partes singing, which came from Ukraine in the beginning. 2nd floor. 17th century, was associated with the widespread use of imitation techniques. P., incl. strict presentation of topics, canons, etc. The theorist of this form was N. P. Diletsky. The partes style put forward its own masters, the largest of which was V.P. Titov. Rus. P. in the 2nd floor. 18th century enriched classic. Western European fugue (M. S. Berezovsky - choral concert "Do not reject me in old age"). In the general system of imitation. P. in the beginning. 19th century at D.S. Bortnyansky, she received a new interpretation, arising from the songliness characteristic of his style. Classic Russian stage P. is associated with the work of M. I. Glinka. He combined the principles of folk-voice, imitation and contrast P. This was the result of the conscious aspirations of Glinka, who studied with the folk. musicians and mastered the theory of modern. him P. "The combination of western fugue with the conditions of our music" (Glinka) led to the formation of synthetic. forms (fugue in the introduction of the 1st act of "Ivan Susanin"). A further stage in the development of Russian. fugues - the subordination of her symphony. principles (fugue in the 1st suite of P. I. Tchaikovsky), monumentality of the general design (fugues in ensembles and cantatas by S. I. Taneev, piano fugues by A. K. Glazunov). Widely represented by Glinka, contrasting P. is a combination of a song and a recitative, two songs or bright independent themes (the scene "In the hut" in the 3rd act of "Ivan Susanin", a reprise of the overture from the music to "Prince Kholmsky", etc.) - continued to develop with A. S. Dargomyzhsky; it is especially richly represented in the works of the composers of The Mighty Handful. Among the masterpieces of contrasting P. are FP. M. P. Mussorgsky's play "Two Jews - rich and poor", symphonic picture "In Central Asia" by Borodin, Grozny's dialogue with Stesha in the 3rd edition of Rimsky-Korsakov's "Pskovityanka", a number of adaptations folk songs by A. K. Lyadov. Music saturation. fabrics with singing voices is extremely typical for production. A. N. Scriabin, S. V. Rachmaninov - from small forms of romance and FP. plays to large symphonies. canvases.

In the owls P. music and polyphonic. Forms occupy an exceptionally important place, which is associated with the general upsurge of poetry, which is characteristic of the music of the 20th century. Prod. N. Ya. Myaskovsky, S. S. Prokofiev, D. D. Shostakovich, V. Ya. Shebalin give examples of excellent possession of polyphonic. a lawsuit aimed at identifying ideological arts. music content. The large polyphony inherited from the classics has found the widest application. form, in a cut polyphonic. episodes systematically lead to logical. top expresses. character; the form of the fugue is also developed, which in Shostakovich’s work has become fundamental both in the large concepts of symphonies (4th, 11th) and chamber ensembles (quintet op. 49, quartets fis-moll, c-moll, etc.), and in solo works. for fp. (24 preludes and fugues op. 87). Thematism of Shostakovich's fugues in least stems from the folk-song source, and their form - from the couplet variation. Exclude. In the music of Prokofiev, Shostakovich, Shebalin, ostinato and the form of variations of the ostinato type associated with it have acquired importance, which also reflects the trend inherent in the entire modern. music.

P. in owls. music develops under the influence of the latest means of music. expressiveness. Her bright patterns contain production. K. Karaev (4th book of piano preludes, 3rd symphony, etc.), B. I. Tishchenko, S. M. Slonimsky, R. K. Shchedrin, A. A. Pyart, N. I. Peiko , B. A. Tchaikovsky. Especially distinguished polyphonic. beginning in the music of Shchedrin, who continues to develop the fugue and polyphonic in general. forms and genre are independent. op. ("Basso ostinato", 24 preludes and fugues, "Polyphonic Notebook"), and as parts of larger symphonic, cantata and theatrical productions, where imitation. P. in conjunction with the contrast conveys an unusually broad picture of life phenomena.

“The use of polyphony can only be welcomed, because the possibilities of polyphony are practically unlimited,” emphasized D. D. Shostakovich. “Polyphony can convey everything: the scope of time, and the scope of thought, and the scope of dreams, creativity.”

The terms "P." and "counterpoint" refer not only to the phenomena of music, but also to the theoretical. the study of these phenomena. As an accountant the discipline of P. is included in the system of muses. education. Scientific Theoreticians of the 15th and 16th centuries were engaged in the development of questions of P.: J. Tinktoris, Glarean, and J. Carlino. The latter described in detail the P.'s techniques - contrasting counterpoint, mobile counterpoint, etc. The system of attributing counterpoints to a given voice (cantus firmus) with a gradual decrease in duration and an increase in the number of sounds (a note against a note, two, three, four notes against a note, flowery counterpoint) continued to be developed by theorists 17th-18th centuries - J. M. Bononchini and others, in the work of J. Fuchs "Gradus ad Parnassum" (1725) reached its peak (the young W. A. ​​Mozart studied the book of strict writing from this book). In the same works we also find methods for studying the fugue, the theory of which is more fully expounded by F. V. Marpurg. First time is enough complete description J.S. Bach's style was given by I. Forkel. Mozart's teacher J. Martini insisted on the need to study counterpoint using canto fermo and cited samples from the literature on P. free style. The later manuals on counterpoint, fugue and the canon by L. Cherubini, Z. Dehn, I. G. G. Bellerman, E. Prout improved the system of teaching P. strict writing and the use of other polyphonic. forms. All R. 19th century a number of German theorists opposed the study of the foundations of a strict style, adopted, in particular, in the newly discovered Russian. conservatories. In his defense, G. A. Laroche published a series of articles. Proving the need for historical music method. Education, he at the same time characterized the role of P. in the history of music, in particular P. strict style. This idea was the impetus for the theoretical development and practice of pedagogical. activities of S. I. Taneyev, summarized by him in the work "Mobile counterpoint of strict writing" (Leipzig, 1909).

The most important stage in the theory of P. was the study of E. Kurt "Fundamentals of Linear Counterpoint" (1917, Russian translation - M., 1931), which revealed not only the principles of melodic. polyphony of J. S. Bach, but also gave the prospect of studying some aspects of free style P., previously forgotten.

Scientific work of owls. theorists are devoted to polyphonic. forms, their dramaturgy. roles and history evolution. Among them are "Fugue" by V. A. Zolotarev (M., 1932), "Polyphonic Analysis" by S. S. Skrebkov (M.-L., 1940), "Polyphony as a factor of shaping" by A. N. Dmitriev (L ., 1962), "The History of Polyphony" by V. V. Protopopov (issue 1-2, M., 1962-65), a number of departments. works on polyphonic otile N. Ya. Myaskovsky, D. D. Shostakovich, P. Hindemith and others.

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V. V. Protopopov

It should be clarified that polyphony is a kind of polyphony, which is based on the combination, as well as the development of several melodic lines that are completely independent. Another name for polyphony is an ensemble of melodies. In any case, this is a musical term, but polyphony in mobile phones is quite popular and constantly conquers new frontiers.

The basic concept of polyphony

Polyphony implies a certain polyphony, and the number of such voices can be completely different and range from two to infinity. But in fact, several dozen votes are the standard number, and this option is the most common.

Now we can no longer imagine a telephone that would be needed only for calls. On this moment mobile can fully personify its owner. Among other things, the owner will demand a lot from the same phone - the more functions, the better. That is why polyphony is now in demand. Surprisingly, mobile phones are now much “stronger” in their power than even the first computers.

The difference between polyphony and monophony

Now the possibilities of our mobile phones are almost unlimited, but before, the question of simply the need for the existence of polyphony made people think. This was due to the fact that they did not fully realize what exactly she was like.

A monophonic phone can play only one note or voice at a certain moment, but a polyphonic phone can simultaneously combine up to several dozen different notes and voices at the same time.

That is why the most successful explanation would be a comparison of polyphony and monophony. Imagine in your head the sound of the orchestra and the playing of the soloist. Feel the difference? So, polyphony is an orchestra with its bizarre interweaving of melodies from various musical instruments. It is polyphony that can create a full-fledged high-quality sound and satisfy the desires of even the most demanding music lover.

Polyphonic melodies - requirements and formats

The main requirement is to have at least one powerful speaker. And, of course, this concerns the fact that the mobile phone has enough free memory. Now the presence of such is taken for granted for us. Moreover, for better sounding of the melody, you can also use headphones, for example, vacuum ones.

Now there are many sites that can offer you to download a couple of similar pieces of music from the "polyphony melodies" section. common types files in this case are midi, mmf, wav, and also amr.

The historical beginning of the development of polyphony

It is surprising that polyphony would not have “come” to the phone if it were not for brilliant creations Johann Sebastian Bach.

It was thanks to him that in the 16-17 centuries such polyphony could reach the peak of its popularity. It was this composer who created the classical definition of polyphony as a melody in which all voices are equally expressive and also important.

Types of polyphony

Later, certain special genres arose in polyphony. This applies to some polyphonic variations - the chaconne, as well as the passacaglia, inventions and pieces that used imitation techniques. Fugue is considered the pinnacle of polyphonic art.

The fugue is a polyphonic polyphonic melody, which was composed following special and rather strict laws. One of these laws states that the basis of this piece of music should be a bright and very well-remembered theme. Most often you can find a three-part or four-part fugue.

Musical polyphony is not just the sound of the orchestra, it is important that it plays one melodic line. At the same time, it makes absolutely no difference how many people will participate in such an orchestra.

It often happens that when several people sing the same melody, everyone wants to bring something of themselves into it and give it some shade of individuality. That is why the melody can, as it were, “stratify” and turn from monophony into polyphony. This form of it appeared a long time ago and is called heterophony.

Tape is considered another and also ancient form of polyphony. It is represented by such a piece of music in which several voices simultaneously perform the same melody, but at different frequencies - that is, one sings a little higher and the other lower.

The first phones with polyphony

The first phone with polyphony appeared in 2000, it was the famous Panasonic GD95. Then it was a grandiose breakthrough in the field of technology, and now it is normal for us if the phone has at least a few polyphonic melodies in its arsenal.

Exactly East Asia became a pioneer in this area and did not lose at all. Polyphony is something that even now does not cause much surprise, because it has conquered the whole world. After that, the GD75 appeared, which was just able to show all people that polyphony is a rather useful tool. This model is very for a long time was in the top of all sales.

Polyphony is an improvement that most manufacturers have been striving for. That is why in the future, there was a novelty from the Mitsubishi company, which was able to demonstrate to the whole public a new model of the Trium Eclipse mobile phone. It was he who was able to qualitatively and, most importantly, loudly reproduce three-tone melodies.

Only after that, Europe joined in such a race of innovations and France was able to tell the whole world about a mobile phone that could support playback of eight-tone polyphony. The only thing that sophisticated music lovers did not like was that it did not sound loud enough.

Polyphony is also what Motorola was striving for, but came to this quite late. She was able to introduce the T720, which supported a similar music format. But the famous Nokia company, which is still popular in our time, then chose the path of improving the characteristics of its phones, in particular, this applies to musical characteristics, by using MIDI files.

As you can see, polyphony has gone through a rather long and branched path of improvement and, no matter how strange it may sound, it first appeared in classical musical works. But the year 2000 became a new step in its development - it was then that it first appeared on a mobile phone and won the hearts of many music lovers.

Polyphony and its varieties

POLYPHONY

INTRODUCTION.. 2

Polyphony and its varieties. 2

CONTRAST POLYPHONY.. 4

Formation contrast polyphony. 4

Strict writing - melodic. 7

Free style. Varieties of contrast polyphony. 28

Conditions for harmonizing contrasting melodies. 29

Simple and complex counterpoint. 31

Types of complex counterpoint. 32

Double counterpoint. 34

SIMULATED POLYPHONY.. 36

Imitation - composition and parameters.. 36

Types of imitation. 37

Canon. 39

Types of developed imitative-polyphonic works. 42

General structure fugues. 43

Typical Features themes in fugue. 45

Answer. 47

Counterposition. 48

Sideshows. 49

The structure of the exposition part of the fugue. 51

Development part of the fugue. 52

Reprisal part of the fugue. 53

Fugues of non-three-part structure. 54

Double and triple fugues. 55

INTRODUCTION

Polyphony and its varieties

Music warehouse there are monodic, harmonic (homophonic-harmonic) and polyphonic. The monodic warehouse is the basis of the folklore of many peoples and ancient types of professional music. The monodic warehouse is monophonic: the sounds add up to a melody, their linear-melodic connection is achieved primarily by means of the mode. Harmonic and polyphonic warehouses as polyphonic are contrasted together with monodic. In polyphony, sounds are correlated and connected not only melodically, horizontally, but also harmonically, that is, vertically. In a harmonic warehouse, the vertical is primary, harmony directs the movement of the melody. Here the main role is played by the melodic line, which is often in the upper voice and is opposed to the chord accompaniment. In a polyphonic warehouse, everything is different.

Polyphony (from the Greek poly - many; background - sound, voice; literally - polyphony) is a type of polyphony based on the simultaneous combination and development of several independent melodic lines. Polyphony is called an ensemble of melodies. Polyphony is one of the most important means of musical composition and artistic expression. Numerous techniques of polyphony serve to diversify the content of a musical work, its embodiment and development. artistic images. By means of polyphony, musical themes can be modified, compared and combined. Polyphony is based on the laws of melody, rhythm, mode, harmony.

There are various musical forms and genres used to create works of a polyphonic warehouse: fugue, fughetta, invention, canon, polyphonic variations, in the XIV - XVI centuries. - motet, madrigal, etc. Polyphonic episodes (for example, fugato) are also found in other forms - larger, larger-scale ones. For example, in a symphony, in the first part, that is, in sonata form, the development can be built according to the laws of the fugue.

The fundamental feature of the polyphonic texture, which distinguishes it from the homophonic-harmonic one, is fluidity, which is achieved by erasing the caesuras that separate the constructions, by the inconspicuousness of the transitions from one to another. The voices of a polyphonic structure rarely cadence at the same time, usually their cadences do not coincide, which causes a feeling of continuity of movement as a special expressive quality inherent in polyphony.

There are 3 types of polyphony:

2. multi-dark (contrasting);

3. imitation.

Sub-vocal polyphony is an intermediate stage between monodic and polyphonic. Its essence is that all voices simultaneously perform different versions of the same melody. Due to the difference in options in polyphony, sometimes voices merge in unison and move in parallel unisons, sometimes they diverge into other intervals. A striking example is folk songs.

Contrasting polyphony is the simultaneous sounding of different melodies. Here, voices with different directions of melodic lines are combined, and differing in rhythmic patterns, registers, and timbres of melodies. The essence of contrast polyphony is that the properties of melodies are revealed in their comparison. An example is Glinka "Kamarinskaya".

Imitative polyphony is a non-simultaneous, sequential entry of voices conducting one melody. The name of imitation polyphony comes from the word imitation, which means imitation. All voices imitate the first voice. An example is an invention, a fugue.

Polyphony - as a special type of polyphonic presentation - has come a long way of historical development. At the same time, its role was far from the same in individual periods; it either increased or decreased depending on the changes in the artistic tasks put forward by one or another era, in accordance with changes in musical thinking and with the emergence of new genres and forms of music.

The main stages in the development of polyphony in European professional music.

2. XIII - XIV centuries. Move to more votes. The huge prevalence of three-voice; the gradual appearance of four- and even five- and six-voices. A significant increase in the contrast of jointly sounding melodically developed voices. The first examples of imitative presentation and double counterpoint.

3. XV - XVI centuries. The first period in history of the heyday and full maturity of polyphony in the genres choral music. The era of the so-called "strict writing", or "strict style".

4. 17th century In the music of this era, there are many polyphonic compositions. But in general, polyphony is relegated to the background, giving way to a rapidly developing homophonic-harmonic warehouse. Especially intensive is the development of harmony, which at that time becomes one of the most important formative means in music. Polyphony only in the form of various methods of presentation penetrates into the musical fabric of opera and instrumental works, which in the 17th century. are the leading genres.

5. First half of the 18th century Creativity I.S. Bach and G.F. Handel. The second heyday of polyphony in the history of music, based on the achievements of homophony in the 17th century. The polyphony of the so-called "free writing" or "free style", based on the laws of harmony and controlled by them. Polyphony in the genres of vocal-instrumental music (masses, oratorios, cantatas) and purely instrumental (HTK by Bach).

6. The second half of the XVIII - XXI centuries. Polyphony is basically an integral part of complex polyphony, to which it is subordinated along with homophony and heterophony, and within which its development continues.

It has 5 varieties:

1. Heterophony is such a principle of the ratio of voices, when each of them reproduces a variant of the same melody. At the same time, an episodic branch from the unison is characteristic. Such a warehouse is typical for the Western Russian tradition, as well as for northern regions(Smolensk, Pskov, Novgorod, partially Tver; Arkhangelsk, Vologda, Vyatka).

There are four types of heterophony:

1). Heterophony of the "Unison" type, or "Monodionic".

2). Heterophony "Regulated".

In it, a strict, constant division of vocal lines is observed not only in the endings of the tune, but also in the development of voices.

3). Heterophony "Branched".

4). Heterophony "Developed" or "Saturated".

In it, polyphonic consonances arise, both dissonances and consonances. This type of heterophony was defined by N.N. Gilyarova according to characteristic in Ryazan song folklore combinations, which she calls the term "cluster consonances".

There are four types of bourdon:

• 2). An intermittent bourdon is called when the lower voice periodically goes down for a second or a third and then returns.
• 3). A special form of bourdon is "Quantum Frame Bourdon".

This kind of singing with bourdon is formed as a result of the stratification of the main two voices and the episodic occurrence of three or four voices. In such cases, the harmonic thinking of the performers is manifested. All voices are melodically developed, and a fifth often sounds between the extreme ones.

4). "Singing with an imaginary bourdon".

It is found in Central Russia, in the South, in the Volga region, in the Urals, in Siberia.

Two varieties have been noted:

main, most general principle Russian contrasting two-voice - a distinct, relief opposition of the upper vocal line, which has an auxiliary value, the part of the lower voice, which constitutes the melodic core, the intonational basis of the melody.

There are transitional forms between heterophony and contrasting 2-voices, when in archaic tunes with a limited melody range - no more than 6.3 - one can notice the inclination of some voices to the upper register, and others to the bass.

When performing songs based on the principles of contrasting two-voice by two singers, the lower part usually forms the melodic basis of the melody and carries out the main musical idea. As a rule, it is performed by the lead singer, continuing to lead in the ensemble after the entry of the upper echo, which colors the melody with modal colors, rhythmically enriches it. When the song is performed by a trio, a quartet, a quintet, and even a choir, the lower parts interact with each other according to the principle of heterophony - they contain variants of the main melody.

Polyphonic and harmonic properties of contrasting two-voice

• - vocal lines are contrasted intonation (movement of one voice against the background of a sustained tone in another; movement in opposite directions);
• - rhythmic contrast of voices;
• - typical rules for constructing horizontal lines - the lower voice is the sequence of quarter melodic moves, and the upper one is the patterned chanting of the fifth.

At the same time, the vocal lines, despite their relative independence, are constantly aligned vertically. The resolution of more intense consonances into less intense or consonant ones is clearly felt; the use of detentions and other characteristic-harmonic techniques.

In the songs of the late historical layer (urban, soldier), authentic connections between the series of consonances can be traced. Especially great craving for harmonic musical thinking in South Russian singing folklore, and, above all, in songs of a dance character - round dance, wedding, majestic.

Most definitely, reliance on harmony is found in cadences, in which functional tension is concentrated. musical development melody followed by resolution in unison to a tonic sound.

2). Three-voice, where the middle voice (alto or baritone) sings, the upper one sings an undertone, the lower one, in fifth proportion with the upper one, is a stable bass. If the voices are separated, then three-, four-voice, sometimes five-voice consonances are periodically formed (but it is precisely the three main voices that are divided when there are many singing). Folk singers say: “The upper ones are “voicing”, the lower ones are “bassing”. Of great importance in such singing is the harmonic vertical, where the hidden parallelism of triads often sounds.

In its most complete and complete form, this system of polyphony has developed in a number of regions of the Russian South (Belgorod, Voronezh, Kursk).

• -Most of the voices participating in ensemble singing are divided into three main groups. The main melodic core is the line of the middle voice, it is usually led by the lead singer.
• - The middle melodic layer is opposed by the line of the upper echo, or the party of two or three complementary upper voices (for example, the tradition of the Middle Don).
• -The third group of voices is located at the bottom, mostly in fifth proportion with the top one, forming a stable bass foundation.
• -Since the parties are in close proximity, a very dense texture arises, replete with three-, four-, five-voice and sometimes even more complex consonances.

This form of polyphony, obviously, was formed no earlier than the 16th-17th centuries and was developed already in mid-nineteenth century." A developed three-voice texture is not typical for all genres, but only for lingering lyrical, partly for urban lyrical songs.

• 4. "Tape" polyphony.
• (or by the definition of T. Bershadskaya - "Warehouse from the second").
• 1). "Warehouse from the second" suggests a two-voice basis, where the voices move in parallel (in a third, sometimes in a quart, fifth), sometimes merging in unison. The main voice is the lower one, the upper one plays the role of an auxiliary voice.

Characteristic: for the Urals, Siberia, the Middle Volga region, the Urals, Central Russia.

This is the same "warehouse from the second", but with an octave doubling (higher or lower) of the sound of the main voices.

Occurs in the North, in the Moscow region, in the Volga region, in the Urals

5. Imitation polyphony.

It exists in two varieties:

• 1. "Canon" (or two-horse singing) - singing, for example, wedding, calendar songs by two groups: one starts, the other comes.
• 2. Folk "Aleatorica".

This is a combination of a song (as a background) with a recitative superimposed on it (wedding singing with crying). As a result, signs of polyrhythm and polymetry are formed. It is found in weddings: Northern, Siberian, Central Russia.