Visualization of Music as a Means for the Contemporary Composition to Function: Edison Denisov, “Three Pictures by Paul Klee”

This publication presents informational and analytic materials to a class in 7th grade of children’s music schools with commentaries and elucidations of the artistic style of German artist Paul Klee and the personal perspective of his art works by 20th century Russian composer. Examination is made of the questions of visualization as a means of impact on the perception of a contemporary classical musical composition. The central portion of the class material is taken up by an analysis of Klee’s works (the visual element) and the analysis of the musical score of Denisov’s cycle. The musical score and the illustrations of the artist’s works are projected on the screen, and the musical fl ow is superimposed on the visual depiction. Thereby, the content of Denisov’s chamber cycle is comprehended in interconnection with and through the components of the visual means of the composition’s functioning. As the result of the attempt of a synthetic perception of art, the visual element provides essential help in providing instruction at the elementary stage of musical education. The choice of the composition is stipulated by the revised content of the 7th grade textbook for children’s music schools by Olga Averyanova “Otechestvennaya muzyka XX veka” [“20th Century Russian Music”, Moscow, 2014]. The article suggests a consistent and interdependent examinations of the parameters of connections between music and painting and their refl ection in the individual, sonorous fl ow of the musical composition