Open AccessThe “Theotokos Chants” Spiritual Concert by Andrei Mikita, Its Genre and Composition
Author(s) -
Andrey B. Kovalev
Publication year - 2014
Publication title -
observatoriâ kulʹtury
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
eISSN - 2588-0047
pISSN - 2072-3156
DOI - 10.25281/2072-3156-2014-0-6-42-47
Subject(s) - choir , composition (language) , singing , art , literature , concerto , polyphony , musical , representation (politics) , musical composition , visual arts , piano , art history , politics , acoustics , law , physics , political science
Analyses multipartite spiritual (religious) concert by Andrey Mikita, one of the prominent Moscow composers. The “Theotokos Chants” concert was written for mixed choir a cappella on liturgical texts of the Theotokos feasts: Nativity of the Theotokos, Annunciation, Assumption, Protection of the Theotokos. The genre and composition particularities of this concerto are related to the elements of liturgical singing tradition on the one hand and composer’s personal musical representation of religious texts on the other. All this determined the nonliturgical genre of this choral.