Petrov, V. O. Word in an Instrumental Composition of the 20th Century as a Factor of Exaggerating the Tragic Content

Abstract: The article is devoted to a unique genre in music during the 20th century, -instrumental word composition, the phenomenon which hasn’t been fully studied in art history yet. Even though composers use a variety of concepts within the framework of this genre, all of them render a tragic content of their music pieces. The purpose of this article is both to view peculiarities of using literary texts in tragic instrumental compositions and to defi ne the constant of their relationship with the music material.

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