Syncretism of Song-Aria-Hymn in Solo Numbers of K. Orff's Primitivist Thinking

Abstract

The purpose of this article is to determine the genre components of solo fragments of K. Orff's singing based on the material of the arch-popular numbers from "Carmina Burana" cantata and «Die Kluge» («Intelligent woman») opera, intended for soprano, which, based on the timbral-register and texture-range indicators of singing, we specify in the features of the lyric. The methodological basis of the research is the intonation approach in the traditions of the school of B. Asafiev in Ukraine, as presented in O. Markova’s and O. Muravska’s works, Liu Bingqiang, Wang Minjie in China, in which a comparative stylistic and hermeneutic-content analysis of the expressiveness of vocal acquisition constitute the dominant factor of research methods. The scientific novelty of the work is determined by the original perspective of the study of the genre section of K. Orff's works, as well as by the identification of the timbre and role of the lyric soprano in the analysed vocal formations. Conclusions. The vocal fragments from K. Orff's cantata and opera highlighted in the analysis demonstrate the hymnic and aria basis of the song presented, as the name suggests, in "Carmina Burana" ("Beuron songs"), while the number from the part of the Intelligent Woman from the opera of the same name is based on an aria, but contains signs of both a song (lullaby) and an incantation with hymnal endings. The presence of hidden polyphony in the melody emphasises the ariad background of the expression, in which the tenderness and sobriety correspond to the timbre-function capabilities of the lyric soprano.

Key words: genre syncretism of song-aria-hymn, genre in music, musical style, primitivism in art and music, musical thinking