"Winter Sorceress in the Works of Artists, Composers and Poets." Joint project
We listen to beautiful winter music and remember its history.
DANCE OF THE PELLET FAIRY FROM THE BALLET “THE NUTCRACKER”
Pyotr Tchaikovsky completed the music for the ballet “The Nutcracker” in December 1892. The premiere took place at the same time. Mariinsky Theater . In “The Nutcracker,” the celesta, the youngest percussion-keyboard musical instrument, invented 6 years earlier by the Frenchman Auguste Mustel, was performed for the first time on the Russian stage. Tchaikovsky, captivated by the delicate sound of the celesta, personally brought it from Paris. It was perfect for a musical Christmas story. Celeste was performed in the dance of the Sugar Plum Fairy, the sophisticated mistress of sweets in Confitenburg. The crystal chimes and airy dance of the Italian Antonietta Delera conveyed both the charm and fragility of the fairy-tale world.
Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky. Dance of the Sugar Plum Fairy from the ballet “The Nutcracker”
POLONESE FROM THE OPERA “THE NIGHT BEFORE CHRISTMAS”
Opera "The Night Before Christmas" Nikolai Rimsky-Korsakov created in 1895. The composer wrote the libretto for “there was a carol” himself, based on the story of the same name Nikolai Gogol . He introduced a lot of fantastic and pagan elements into the plot:“Being interested in myths and combining them with Gogol’s story is, of course, my mistake, but this mistake made it possible to write a lot of interesting music.”. The premiere of The Night Before Christmas took place at the Mariinsky Theater in December 1895.
The polonaise with choir in the opera sounds when Vakula flies to the royal palace. The pathetic music contrasts with other melodies of the opera - carols based on folk motifs, the graceful “Dance of the Stars” and the soulful arias of Oksana and Vakula. After all, there is a festive ball in the palace - courtiers in magnificent dresses and wigs perform a ceremonial dance.
Nikolai Rimsky-Korsakov. Polonaise from the opera "The Night Before Christmas"
WALTZ FROM THE OPERA “THE TREE”
Vladimir Rebikov decided to write the opera “The Christmas Tree” in the early 1900s. Her libretto is based on two works - “The Little Match Girl” Hans Christian Andersen and a Christmas story Fyodor Dostoevsky "The boy at Christ's Christmas tree." Their plots are similar: a child from a poor family does not find shelter on a festive evening and ends up freezing to death on an icy street.
The opera by Vladimir Rebikov was a great success: it was staged many times in Russia and abroad. The most famous melody from “Yolka” was the climactic waltz. The main character heard touching and sad music during her enchanting visions, after which she never woke up.
Vladimir Rebikov. Waltz from the opera "The Christmas Tree"
SONG “THE FIRSTREET WAS BORN IN THE FOREST”
The text of the popular children's song was written by Russian poet Raisa Kudasheva in 1903. The poem was first published in the December issue of the magazine “Malyutka” - it was published in St. Petersburg. A few years later, agronomist Leonid Bekman created music for the words. He composed it for his little daughter, and since the scientist did not know how to read music, his wife recorded the melody.
“Herringbone” has gone through several births. In the 1900s, it became a very popular Christmas carol, sung at home parties, in high schools, and in orphanages. IN World War I when Christmas noted with restraint, the melody was a little forgotten. After the revolution, the anthem of the religious holiday was completely unofficially banned. “Yolochka” returned to the third generation of Soviet children - in the 1930s - and became not a Christmas song, but a New Year's song.
Song “A Christmas tree was born in the forest.” Words by Raisa Kudasheva, music by Leonid Bekman
SONG “FIVE MINUTES” FROM THE MOVIE “CARNIVAL NIGHT”
The lively song about the last five minutes of the passing year is already 60 years old. In 1956 the whole country listened to her: the film“Carnival Night” by Eldar Ryazanov watched by almost 50 million Soviet viewers, and the melody itself sounded from every radio. It remains one of the New Year's song traditions today.
The music for “Five Minutes” was written by composer Anatoly Lepin, and the words by Vladimir Livshits. In the film, the song of Lenochka Krylova - the heroine Gurchenko — lasted five minutes and ended with the chimes. A decoration was made especially for the room: a huge alarm clock, on either side of which were musicians from the orchestra. “Carnival” clocks also became a New Year’s trend for many years - bright Christmas tree decorations, “five minutes before”, soon appeared in every Soviet home.
The song “Five Minutes” from the movie “Carnival Night” (1956). Words by Vladimir Livshits, music by Anatoly Lepin
WALTZ FROM THE MOVIE "Blizzard"
Music for the film "Blizzard" based on the same name stories by Alexander Pushkin Georgy Sviridov wrote in 1964. Waltz and “Troika”, “Military March” and “Wedding” were performed on the radio and put on television programs. 10 years after the film was released, Sviridov edited the score. It became an independent work - “Musical illustrations for the story by A.S. Pushkin "Blizzard".
At the same time solemn and tender, the waltz sounds at the very beginning of the film, during the ball. Here the main character, Marya Gavrilovna, saw for the first time, albeit briefly, the one with whom she would mistakenly marry. The audience also hears the muted motives of this melody at the end of the film, when the characters miraculously meet again and recognize each other.
Film "Sorcerers" script Strugatsky brothers Konstantin Bromberg filmed it in 1982. It was shown on television on the last day of the year. The music for the film was written by Evgeny Krylatov, and the lyrics by Leonid Derbenev. Later she released all the compositions on one disc Melodiya company.
One of the musical symbols of the New Year was “Song about a Snowflake”, or “Snowflake”, from the movie “Sorcerers”. A song about how to correctly make a wish at the magical midnight was sung by Olga Rozhdestvenskaya with the vocal and instrumental ensemble “Good Fellows.” “Snowflake” began to appear in blue lights, at holiday discos and even children’s matinees. And for more than three decades now it has been heard before the New Year on all radio stations and television channels.
“Song about a Snowflake” from the movie “Sorcerers” (1982). Words by Leonid Derbenev, music by Evgeny Krylatov
LESSON TOPIC
“The poetic image of winter in the works of Russian poets and composers”
Purpose of the lesson
Formation of the child’s spiritual world, development of creative abilities through music and poetry
Planned personal educational outcomes
Respect for nature;
Expression of one’s emotional attitude to artistic images in poetry and music;
Reflection, reasoning about ways to reflect the characteristics of the winter season in music;
Positive self-esteem of one’s musical and creative capabilities
Planned universal learning activities
Regulatory
Cognitive
Communication
Set an educational-cognitive task and maintain it until the end of the educational activities;
Evaluate the results of solving assigned tasks, find errors and ways to eliminate them;
The ability to find connections in nature
The ability to respond emotionally to musical works and poetry;
Observe and draw your own conclusions.
Construct a speech statement in oral and written form;
Answer questions and justify your point of view.
Planned
subject
results
Introduce children to images of winter in music and poetry;
Form the concept of “Cantata”, as well as repeat the concept of “Symphony Orchestra”;
The ability to determine the features and character of the melodies of various musical works
Equipment for conducting a lesson
For the teacher: Multimedia installation with a presentation for the lesson; audio recordings: “Winter Sings...”, song “Winter's Tale”, “Waltz” from the musical cycle “Blizzard” by G. Sviridov; sounds of instruments.
For students: printed poems for analysis
Educational resources used to teach the lesson
Article from the magazine “From Domestic Experience” on the topic “The poetic image of winter in the works of Russian poets and composers” (Integrated lesson in 5th grade)
LESSON PLAN
(musical)
Material
Students
1.Organizational stage
The teacher begins the lesson by reading a poem by A. S. Pushkin
“Here is the north, the clouds are catching up,
He breathed, howled - and here she is
The sorceress winter is coming."
Stage 2. Setting the goals and objectives of the lesson. Motivation for students' learning activities
Students determine the topic and purpose of the lesson:
Guys, what do you think will be the topic of our lesson today? What will the lesson be about?
Stage 3. Goal setting and planning
Students, having determined the topic of the lesson, plan the course of work during the lesson.
What are we going to do in class today? What is our goal?
Stage 4. Updating knowledge
Checking homework
Guys, do you like winter? What image of winter have you created in your home writings? Imagine for a moment that you are poets, writers, artists.... Tell us about your winter.
Stage 5. Discovery of new knowledge
5.1. Primary assimilation of new knowledge
“Waltz” from the musical cycle “Blizzard” by G. Sviridov
The teacher presents the students with theoretical material on this topic, while practical work is carried out in parallel - children listen to musical works and analyze works of art
5.2. Primary consolidation
Sounds of symphony orchestra instruments
Students conclude that the image of winter can be conveyed not only with the help of poems, but also with the help of music. They try to compose a piece of music for the poem themselves.
Stage 6. Incorporating new knowledge into the knowledge system. Consolidation
Fragment of G. Sviridov’s cantata “In Memory of Sergei Yesenin” “Winter Sings and Calls”
Auditions of a cantata based on the poem “Winter Sings and Calls”, definition of the concept “Cantata”
Stage 7. Reflection (summarizing the lesson)
The song of the Ural composer Irina Frolova “Winter's Tale”.
The teacher ends the lesson with a piece of music
Students evaluate their work in class and sum up the results.
PROGRESS OF THE LESSON
U. Hello, my dears! Let's start the lesson quickly. Smile at each other and give your smile to me.
D. Hello! (children smile and sit down in their seats)
U. Today we will have a very interesting topic, and what we will talk about, try to guess for yourself (Reads a poem)
Here is the north, the clouds are catching up,
He breathed, howled - and here she is
The sorceress winter is coming.
She came and fell apart; shreds
Hanged on the branches of oak trees;
Lay down in wavy carpets
Among the fields, around the hills;
Brega with a still river
She leveled it with a plump veil;
The frost has flashed, and we are glad
To the pranks of Mother Winter.
U. What do you think we will talk about today? What is the topic of today's lesson?
D. About winter, about the image of winter
U. Today we will talk about winter, about how not only poets, but also composers see it. The topic of our lesson is “The poetic image of winter in the works of Russian poets and composers.” What should you and I do in the lesson? What is our goal?
D. Today we will analyze poems, as well as musical works about winter. The purpose of our lesson is to get acquainted with poems and musical works about winter.
W. That's right, now let's go back to the poem that I read and look at it carefully. What poetic image of winter did A. S. Pushkin create in this poem?
D. Winter is mother, winter is a sorceress.
W. Why do you think he calls her that?
D. Nature is a mother, she is near and dear to the poet. He likes winter, although it is a harsh, blizzard and sad time of year.
U. Guys, do you like winter? What image of winter have you created in your home writings? Imagine for a moment that you are poets, writers, artists.... Tell us about your winter. (The guys go to the board and read out their works, talk about the drawings)
U. You know, guys, that literature is the art of words. It is closely related to other forms of art. The artist created the image of the Russian winter with his brush, the composer created it with music, the poet does it in his own way. Listen to a poem by a 20th century Russian poet.
(The literature teacher reads S. Yesenin’s poem “Powder”. At this time, “Waltz” from the musical cycle “Blizzard” by G. Sviridov sounds).
I'm going. Quiet. Rings are heard
Under the hoof in the snow,
Only gray crows
They made noise in the meadow.
Bewitched by the invisible
The forest slumbers under the fairy tale of sleep,
Like a white scarf
A pine tree has tied up.
Bent over like an old lady
Leaned on a stick
And above the very top of your head
A woodpecker is hitting a branch.
The horse is galloping, there is a lot of space,
The snow is falling and the shawl is laying down.
Endless road
D. Yes, this is a poem by S.A. Yesenin "Porosh".
D. Winter is quiet, calm, magical. She bewitched the forest, transformed the pine tree into an old woman, and covered the earth with a beautiful shawl.
(Children find epithets (white scarf, endless road); personifications (the forest is sleeping); comparisons (pine tree - old woman)).
U. What can you say about the person who wrote this poem?
U. Yes, nature for S. Yesenin is his Motherland, his home, his family. The poet himself has repeatedly admitted: “I love the Motherland, I love the Motherland very much...”. The author was able to convey this love through poems dedicated to Russian nature. What poems by S. Yesenin dedicated to the Russian winter do you still know? (Children list S. Yesenin’s poems “Swept by a Blizzard,” “Winter Sings and Calls,” etc.)
U. Let's pay attention to the poem “Winter Sings and Calls” (the teacher reads the poem)
Winter sings and echoes,
The shaggy forest lulls
The ringing sound of a pine forest.
All around with deep melancholy
Sailing to a distant land
Gray clouds.
And there's a snowstorm in the yard
Spreads a silk carpet,
But it's painfully cold.
Sparrows are playful,
Like lonely children,
Huddled by the window.
The little birds are cold,
Hungry, tired,
And they huddle tighter.
And the blizzard roars madly
Knocks on the hanging shutters
And he gets angrier.
And the tender birds are dozing
Under these snowy whirlwinds
At the frozen window.
And they dream of a beautiful
In the smiles of the sun is clear
Beautiful spring.
U. What image of winter appears before us?
D. A cold, harsh, domineering, angry and rude housewife. “Gray clouds” bring cold and anxiety, “Blizzard with a furious roar” knocks on the shutters and gets angry.
U. Is there musicality in this poem? Can this work be depicted using music? Let's imagine ourselves in the role of novice composers and think about it. What melody can convey the character of the poem?
D. The melody should be loud on the forte. The character of the music is menacing, powerful...
W. And if you were writing music for a mixed choir, what voices would you be assigned to sing these lines: Winter sings and calls, The shaggy forest lulls with the ringing of the pine forest. All around, with deep melancholy, Gray clouds float to a distant land.
D. We would assign these lines to a male choir to sing.
U. How would you depict the image of little sparrows in music?
D. Sparrows are compassionate, quiet, defenseless.
D. You can assign a women’s choir to sing about sparrows.
W. And if you were writing music for a symphony orchestra, what instrument could convey the pitiful sound?
D. Flute (wind instrument)
U. How does the image of a blizzard appear before us? How can you portray it in a symphony orchestra?
D. The blizzard is harsh and terrible. Its character will be better conveyed by string instruments - violins and cellos, brass instruments - trumpets and horns.
U. How would you depict spring in music? Which choir group could sing these lines?
D. Spring is sunny, warm, joyful, clear. These lines could be sung by a women's choir.
U. Guys, now let's listen to what kind of music a real composer wrote for this poem. (A fragment of G. Sviridov’s cantata “In Memory of Sergei Yesenin” “Winter Sings and Sounds” sounds).
U. Is this music similar to the one you imagined?
D. Yes, it’s similar. If we were composers, we would write something like this.
U. This amazing music was written by our contemporary G. Sviridov. This cantata is called “In Memory of S. Yesenin”. What is a cantata?
(Vocabulary work: a cantata is a piece of music written for a symphony orchestra, mixed choir and soloists).
U. We listened only to the second part of the cantata, there are 10 of them in total. The music of this work vividly and figuratively reflects the literary text. The unity of music and words is felt.
U. A was inspired by the Russian winter to create the composer and poet. Although she is harsh and cold, she brings so much joy to our home. Along with it comes the New Year and the long-awaited winter holidays with skiing, sledding and skating.
Nature doesn't have bad weather. And the harsh, cold winter tests our strength, fortitude, and endurance. She teaches us patience and endurance.
U. Guys, what did we talk about today?
D. About winter and its image in poems and musical works
U. What new musical terms have we learned?
D. We learned what a cantata is, remembered what a symphony orchestra is and what instruments it includes
U. Have we fulfilled the purpose of the lesson?
U. Did you like the lesson? All those who liked the lesson, smile, and those who did not like the lesson, puff out your cheeks. Let's finish our lesson with a cheerful song by the Ural composer Irina Frolova “Winter's Tale”.
Musical and literary lounge “MUSIC OF WINTER”
Leisure scenario for children of senior preschool age
Musical director Nadezhda Aleksandrovna Popova.
Target: to instill a love for classical music, for the work of classical poets through a synthesis of arts (music, poetry).
Tasks: develop children's musical and creative abilities:
learn independently, determine the character and content of a musical work, respond emotionally to it; convey the character of musical works through movement, develop motor qualities and skills; develop singing skills, ear for music;
improve the ability to play in an orchestra, use a variety of techniques for playing children's musical instruments; expand your musical horizons;
develop a love for the Russian literary word; improve intonation expressiveness of speech; to cultivate a culture of communication during joint activities of children and adults.
Preliminary work:
- conversations about the characteristic signs and signs of winter;
- selection and learning of songs and poems about winter;
- acquaintance with the work of composers and poets who wrote works about winter;
- listening to the works of P.I. Tchaikovsky “Winter Morning”, “Christmastide”, “On Troika”, “Waltz of Snow Flakes”, G. Sviridov “Blizzard”, A. Vivaldi “Winter”;
- conversations about the nature of the music listened to, learning winter songs; staging a dance sketch to the music of “Waltz of Snow Flakes” by P.I. Tchaikovsky;
- work with a children's musical orchestra (the play “On the Troika” by P. I. Tchaikovsky.)
Leisure progress.
“Waltz” by G. Sviridov sounds.
Children enter the hall and sit down.
(slide - winter forest)
Music hands Good afternoon, our dear guests. Today we met in the music room to talk about winter, to hear how music and poetry talk about it.
In winter, nature is incredibly beautiful! Everything around turns white and sparkles. The trees dress up in fluffy snow-white clothes, everything around is covered with a white blanket, and winter draws fancy patterns on the glass: fairy-tale birds, crystal flower petals, fantastic castles.
Many poets have sung the beauty and magic of winter. Listen to the poem by A.S. Pushkin:
Here is the north, the clouds are catching up,
He breathed, howled - and here she is
The sorceress winter is coming.
Came, crumbled into shreds
Hanged on the branches of oak trees,
Lay down in wavy carpets
Among the fields, around the hills;
Brega with a still river
She leveled it with a plump veil,
The frost has flashed and we are glad
To the pranks of Mother Winter.
Music hands Let's try to briefly travel 100 years ago, to the living room where Russian nobles gathered, and music will help us with this.
(slide - antique living room with a piano)
Yes... back then there were living rooms for home music playing. Every self-respecting family had a guitar or piano in the living room. And sometimes both.
After dinner, someone picked up a guitar or sat down at the piano and the hall was filled with sounds. Let us give our listeners the romance “I remember the lovely sound of a waltz...” by composer Lisztov.
And our teacher Valentina Viktorovna will perform it.
Sounds like romance “I remember the lovely sound of the waltz,” music and lyrics by N. Listov.
Music hands We thank Valentina Viktorovna.
Many artists, poets and composers loved winter for its magical beauty, pure, clear sparkling colors. Let's talk about winter today, listen to music about it.
Music will open its fabulous gates only to the most attentive listener. Listen to the wonderful sounds of music - and you will hear: a light breeze, the rustle of quietly falling snowflakes or the crystal ringing of a drop...
- What kind of music is playing now?
The play is playing“December” by P. I. Tchaikovsky
Children. The play “December” by composer P.I. Tchaikovsky from the album “Seasons” was performed.
Music hands Of course, guys, this music is familiar to you.
But what wonderful lines came from the pens of poets to talk about winter beauty, about its greatness.
(slide illustrating the text of Pushkin’s passage)
Children read excerpts about winter from A. S. Pushkin’s novel “Eugene Onegin”
Winter!.. The peasant, triumphant,
On the firewood he renews the path;
His horse, sensing the snow,
Trotting along somehow;
Fluffy reins exploding,
The daring carriage flies;
The coachman sits on the beam
In a sheepskin coat and a red sash.
Here is a yard boy running,
Having placed the bug in the sled,
Transforming himself into a horse;
The naughty man has already frozen his finger:
It's both painful and funny to him,
And his mother threatens him through the window...
(slide – winter nature)
Music hands Guys, we also know songs about winter. Let's sing one of them.
Song “Zimushka-winter”, music. Z. Root
Music hands Winter... what is it like?
Children. Cold, harsh, blizzard, fluffy, soft, beautiful, caring.
Music hands Absolutely right. Caring. This is how the poet A. Korinfsky writes about this in his poem “Blanket”.
The poem “Blanket” will be performed by Nastya and her mother:
Daughter - Why, dear, does it snow in winter?
Mom - Nature weaves a blanket out of it!
Daughter - Blanket, mom? Why is it?!
Mom - Without him, the ground would become cold!
Daughter - And who, dear one, should look for warmth in her?!
Mom - To those who will have to spend the winter:
Little seeds, grains of bread,
Roots of blades of grass, cereals and flowers.
Music hands Guys, we know winter is playful and playful. Dima, tell us about it.
Verse by N. A. Nekrasov. "Snowball"
The snowball is fluttering, spinning,
It's white outside.
And the puddles turned
In cold glass.
Where the finches sang in summer,
Today - look! –
Like pink apples
There are bullfinches on the branches.
The snow is cut up by skis,
Like chalk, creaky and dry,
And the red cat catches
Cheerful white flies.
Music hands What sounds can you hear in winter?
Children. The creaking of snow, the sound of ice, the sound of the wind, the howl of a blizzard.
(slide – flying snowflakes)
Konstantina Balmont “Snowflake”
Light fluffy,
Snowflake white,
How clean
How brave!
Dear stormy
Easy to carry
Not to the azure heights,
Begs to go to earth.
But here it ends
The road is long,
Touches the earth
Crystal star.
Fluffy lies
Snowflake is brave.
How clean
How white!
Music hands Our dear guests, now we will hear “Waltz of Snow Flakes”. What is the name of the composer who composed this work?
Children. P. I. Tchaikovsky. This waltz is from his ballet The Nutcracker.
Music hands We will not only hear fairy-tale music, but also see the dance of snowflake girls.
Dance-etude to the music of P.I. Tchaikovsky
"Waltz of Snow Flakes"
Music hands The wonderful music of Tchaikovsky from his ballets and the album “Seasons” cannot leave anyone indifferent. What other composer has an album “Seasons”?
Children. The Italian composer Antonio Vivaldi has 4 concerts: “Spring”, “Summer”, “Autumn”, “Winter”.
Music hands Now we will hear a fragment of the “Winter” concert that is well known to you.
An excerpt from “Winter” by A. Vivaldi is played.
Music hands Guys, what is winter like in Vivaldi’s work? What does the music sound like?
Children. The music sounds excited, anxious, winter is blizzard, restless, cold.
Music hands Vivaldi himself wrote about this music:
Numb under the fresh snow,
Under the sharp wind blowing into the pipe.
Run, stamping your boots,
And cowering and shivering in the cold.
I think the poems that Artemy will read would also fit here.
I. Nikitin “Made noisy, went wild...” ...
She made noise and walked around
There is bad weather in the field;
Covered with white snow
Smooth road.
Covered with white snow,
There's no trace left
Dust and blizzard rose,
Out of sight.
Yes to the daring kid
The storm is not a concern:
He will pave the way,
If only there was a hunt.
The dead of midnight is not scary,
Long journey and blizzard,
If the young man is in his mansion
A beautiful friend is waiting.
Music hands After a storm there is always a calm.
An excerpt from the play “On the Troika” is played. November
P. Tchaikovsky
(slide – three horses)
Music hands Winter gives us our favorite holidays, the most fun things to do: snowball fights, sledding, skiing, ice skating, troika with bells.
What piece of music is playing now?
Children."At three." P.I. Tchaikovsky.
Music hands In Russia, a troika is a horse harnessed together under one arc. Bells were often hung from the arch, which played loudly when driving quickly.
Let's listen to the play to the end and decorate it with the sounds of suitable children's musical instruments that you can choose yourself.
(Children of the preparatory group choose bells, a tambourine, a metallophone, and wooden spoons. They improvise to a soundtrack.)
Music hands Thanks guys. I suggest you perform the familiar song “Sleigh”, accompanying yourself on bells.
(winter evening slide)
"Dance with Candles" music. I.S. Bach "Aria from Suite No. 3"
Natalia Ragulina
Literary lounge “Winter in music, fine arts, poetry” for children of senior preschool age
Goals and objectives:
o Involve children to verbal art, including the development of artistic perception and aesthetic taste.
o Enrich musical impressions, contribute to the further development of the fundamentals musical culture.
o Enter preschoolers into the imaginative world of music, show the possibility of reflecting the natural world in it;
o Help preschoolers feel the music of nature, with inner vision to see nature in music;
o Education of a civic position towards the protection and preservation of all life on Earth.
Material: computer, recording disc musical fragments from the plays of A. Vivaldi “ Winter", P. Tchaikovsky "Winter Morning", S. Prokofiev "Morning", music center, reproductions of paintings by I. Grabar "February Azure", "White winter. Rooks' nests", an exhibition of children's works.
(CHILDREN ENTER THE HALL AND SIT ON THE CHAIRS, IT SOUNDS BARELY AUDIOUS MUSIC WITH. Prokofiev "Morning". In the background music a poem is read.)
Music hand: In the morning cat
He brought it on his paws.
First snow!
First snow!
Taste and smell
First snow!
First snow!
He's spinning
Lightweight, new
Over your head.
Down scarf
Spread over the pavement,
He turns white
Along the fences
I took a nap on the lantern.
So soon, very soon
The sled will fly down the slides.
So it will be possible again
Build a fort in the yard.
Music manager: Guys, tell me what time of year the story will be about?
Children: Winter.
Music manager: That's right guys, well done. And please tell me what happens winter?
(answers children)
Music manager: Well done guys. « Winter» This is an amazing time of year, fabulous and magical. And most importantly, New Year and Christmas come in winter! Artists paint pictures, poets and writers write poems and stories about this time of year. And now we will find ourselves in a magical kingdom music, which will tell us about the magical time of year about "Winter". When you wake up in the morning and look out the window, the sun greets you kindly, but sometimes there is an angry blizzard... Now we will listen to you musical piece P. I. Tchaikovsky "Winter Morning". Listen and tell me what mood is conveyed in it, what music by nature.
(Listening to a play by P. I. Tchaikovsky "Winter Morning").
Answers after listening children.
Music manager: That's right guys, when we listen to P. Tchaikovsky's play "Winter Morning", a picture emerges of a stormy winter morning - dark, snowy, cold, inhospitable. Music sounds either alarmed or pitiful. (excerpts of the play are performed). Listen to an excerpt of a poem for this play by S. Yesenin.
And there's a snowstorm in the yard
Spreads a silk carpet
But it's painfully cold.
Sparrows are playful
Like lonely children
Huddled by the window.
The little birds are cold
Hungry, tired
And they huddle closer.
And the blizzard roars madly
Knocks on the hanging shutters
And he gets angrier.
Music director: And now we will listen to the work of the wonderful Italian composer Antonio Vivaldi, there are four concertos for violin and orchestra, which are called "Seasons". These concerts have Name: "Spring", "Summer", "Autumn", « Winter» . Each concert consists of three parts. Let's listen to one of the three parts of the concert « winter» . Which winter seems to you at these sounds.
(listening to a concert by Antonio Vivaldi « Winter» ) .
Children: Beautiful, snowflakes sparkle.
Music manager: Which one? music by nature?
Children: Delicate, light.
Music manager: Yes. In the orchestra you can hear abrupt sounds that flicker and glow like a magical winter outfit of nature. Against this background, violins sing tenderly and soulfully. The Russian poet I. Surikov has a poem about white fluffy snow.
White fluffy snow
Spinning in the air
And the ground is quiet
Falls, lies down
And in the morning snow
The field turned white
Like a veil
Everything dressed him.
Dark forest with a cap
Covered up weird
And fell asleep under her
Strong, unstoppable.
The days have become shorter
The sun shines little
Here come the frosts
AND winter has come.
(The play is performed in fragments).
But here we listened to two plays that were different in character. Like ours winter. Winter can be both harsh and warm.
Let's remember how fun we are at playing snowballs. Get your hands ready.
Musical warm-up
Snowballs fly and flash.
Snowballs cover your face.
Snowballs blind our eyes.
Snowballs make us happy.
Music hands: but guys, we listened to how great composers describe winter, and now pay attention to the artists’ paintings and see how they painted (wrote) "winter".
(there is a description of the paintings).
Music Ruk.: And now guys, we will move on to the reading competition. Our guys have prepared a poem about winter. Let's listen carefully and choose with you someone who will expressively read a poem about winter, and our wonderful jury will help us with this. Let's welcome our participants.
(performance of the contestants)
Music manager: Our contestants have performed, the jury will sum up the results and tell us our winners.
(Awarding)
Music manager: Dear guys, our music room dedicated to the wonderful and magical time of year winter closes. See you again!
The change of seasons is a theme that from time immemorial has attracted the attention of artists working in various forms of art. Meanwhile, musicians, as well as poets, often interpret it in a philosophical vein, drawing a parallel between objective weather changes and the subjective feeling of the transience of human life.
They pay special attention to winter, depicting it as the last stage of existence before going into oblivion. In their imagination, with the onset of winter, the earth falls under the power of destructive elements, and from the depths of the human subconscious the black forces of universal loneliness creep out. However, there are authors who perceive winter cheerfully, finding in it a source of such pleasures as sleigh rides, masquerades, celebrating the New Year, celebrating Maslenitsa...
Let's try to trace the path along which composers of the 18th-20th centuries moved, depicting winter in their instrumental opuses. The dominance of “pure music” in these works in most cases forces the authors to direct the associative thinking of performers and listeners in the right direction with the help of preliminary texts. For these purposes, they often use poetic epigraphs or titles, occasionally indicating the connection of their music with any specific plot (libretto, script).
XVIII century
“Winter is hard, but moments of joy
Sometimes they soften her harsh face...
How happy is the one whom warmth and light
She sheltered her native hearth from the winter cold, -
Let the snow and the wind be angry there, outside...” - these lines are included in the sonnet, which precedes one of the most famous works of classical music dedicated to winter. They are the program for Antonio Vivaldi’s fourth violin concerto, which concludes his four-movement cycle “The Seasons”.
A. Vivaldi (1678–1741) is the largest representative of Italian music of the high baroque era. In his instrumental concerts, in particular in “Winter,” the principles of program symphony, which a hundred years later would be embodied in Beethoven’s “Pastoral Symphony,” were brilliantly anticipated. In the 19th century they were developed by romantic composers, and in the 20th century by the impressionists.
The themes of the three-movement violin concerto “Winter” by A. Vivaldi are unusually clear, concrete, emotional and melodic in Italian style. Anxiety and sublime enlightenment, dramatic tension and the charm of peace are replaced in this work so talentedly that even after the end of listening they continue to excite the imagination. It is also important that the musical language of this work echoes the language of the best works of the authors of the 20th century, created in line with neoclassicism. That is why any of the violin concertos combined by A. Vivaldi into the “Seasons” cycle is currently in demand by listeners.
19th century
“I no longer live in myself, I am part of what I see,” these lines from a poem by J. Byron, which were often quoted by the greatest romantic composer Franz Liszt (1811–1886), can be an epigraph to many of his works created by during a period of creative flourishing. The final edition of “Etudes of Higher Performance”, a cycle consisting of 12 virtuoso plays, the final of which is “Blizzard,” belongs to this time. This composition brings to mind the composer’s amazing confession: “... some vague, but very real relationship, an inexplicable but true relationship, has been established between me and natural phenomena.”
In the above-mentioned sketch, the author clearly embodies the romantic idea of a proud and suffering personality, finding an echo of his own tossing in natural phenomena. Compositionally, this is expressed quite clearly: in the composition one can clearly hear the interdependence of the melody-recitation, which bears the imprint of a personal tragedy, and the texture, depicting the surrounding world, engulfed in a snowy whirlwind. All this was done so skillfully and talentedly that it gives reason to consider “Blizzard” one of the most striking musical sketches of the romantic era.
In Russian music of the 19th century, perhaps the most interesting pages dedicated to winter belong to the pen of Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky (1840-1893). His attitude towards this time of year was already evident in his first symphony, created at the age of 26. Two parts of this work have programmatic titles: “Dreams on a Winter Road” and “Gloomy Land, Foggy Land.” In none of the next five symphonies will Tchaikovsky decide to resort to words, since even without this his inner life will be in plain sight for everyone. Meanwhile, the very first fragment of the author’s first symphony indicates that we have before us a composer of a lyrical direction. In this regard, it is significant that, already a recognized master, Tchaikovsky wrote: “A symphony... the most lyrical of all musical forms... Shouldn’t it express everything for which there are no words, but what asks from the soul and what wants to be expressed."
Many researchers of P. Tchaikovsky’s work associate the images of his first symphony with the paintings of I. Levitan. It is known that the second part of the symphony was created by the composer under the impression of his trip along Lake Ladoga to the island of Valaam and a trip to the Imatra Falls in the summer of 1860. It is significant that in both parts of this work the image of a winter road running along a gloomy region merges with the lyrical reflections of the hero. About this work, art critic G. Sherikhova writes: “Tchaikovsky begins his first symphony with the most delicate watercolor, complementing it with subtle pen strokes... Through this unsteady drawing of nature, the unprotected beauty of the living human soul shines through, for which every rough intrusion is as destructive as for the natural peace."
P. Tchaikovsky creates no less visual pictures of winter in the piano cycle “The Seasons,” where a piece with a literary epigraph is dedicated to each month. Thus, January (“At the Fireplace”) is preceded by the lines of A. Pushkin from the poem “The Dreamer” (1815):
And a peaceful corner
The night has dressed itself in darkness,
The fire in the fireplace goes out,
And the candle burned out.
February - “Maslenitsa” - lines by P. Vyazemsky from the poem “Maslenitsa on the Other Side” (1853):
Soon Maslenitsa is brisk
A wide feast will begin.
December - “Christmas time” - words from V. Zhukovsky’s ballad “Svetlana” (1811):
Once on Epiphany evening
The girls wondered:
A shoe behind the gate,
They took it off their feet and threw it away.
These plays are a kind of catalog of the author's musical language. “At the Fireplace” is a composition in which the confidential intonations characteristic of the composer’s operatic arias can be traced. “Maslenitsa” bears the imprint of the author’s symphonic scherzos, and “Christmastide” is one of the most captivating waltzes for which P. Tchaikovsky is so famous.
Another instrumental waltz that has become the calling card of the Russian genius in the last decade is the “Snow Flake Waltz” from the ballet “The Nutcracker.” The talent of the outstanding artist Andrei Shemyakin (b. 1943) contributed to a new surge of interest in this work: he, together with conductor Valery Gergiev, staged a new production of “The Nutcracker” at the Mariinsky Theater in 2001. In it, A. Shemyakin not only immersed the audience in the bizarre and terrible world of images of Hoffmann’s fairy tale, but also confronted him with the fact of outright “sacrilege” - he released “snowflakes” onto the stage, dressed in black tights, dotted with dazzling white mugs. As a result, the artist achieved an incredible visual effect: against the dark background of the scenery, the outlines of the dancers’ figures seemed to dissolve, and the “snowballs” scattered across their clothes sparkled and swirled, creating the illusion of a blizzard of unimaginable beauty. Shemyakin said that the image of black snowflakes was born to him after he saw a snow whirlwind through the window against the background of the night sky.
Composers of the Russian school have always been close to the images of the fatal element that dominates human life, and in the paintings of winter they found a worthy embodiment for them. In the list of works related to this topic, one can fully include Rachmaninov’s etude-painting in E flat minor op. 33, Scriabin's study in F sharp major op. 42, snowstorm scene from Rimsky-Korsakov’s opera “Kashchei the Immortal.”
Meanwhile, there is a work dedicated to the seasons, in which winter found its devoted admirer. We are talking about Alexander Glazunov (1865–1936) and his ballet “The Seasons” (1900), conceived in the spirit of performances at the French court of the 16th-17th centuries. Glazunov's talent as a “musical painter” brightly illuminated this entire work, but was revealed with particular force when describing the images of winter. It is known that N. L. Rimsky-Korsakov, the author of the operas “The Snow Maiden” and “The Night Before Christmas,” after the rehearsal of the first film “The Seasons” Glazunov said: “This is one of the best winters in Russian music!” In this regard, I would like to quote the words of A. Glazunov, written by him in Paris shortly before his death: “There was no snow...”, “I miss the northern winter, you won’t get snow here...”, “It’s a pity that I won’t see the northern winter again and the sleigh, which I really miss!”
The founder of impressionism in European music was Claude Debussy (1862–1918), a French composer and music critic. A convinced pantheist, he repeatedly voiced his creative credo: “the beauty of nature can excite the artistic imagination of a composer.”
Debussy's need to convey in sounds the changing state of nature and the magical colors of its elusive beauty pushed the composer to search for new means of expression. This affected not only the musical language in the narrow sense of the word, but also the images themselves, which in his works are full of various symbolism. The author’s goal is to excite the imagination of listeners, directing it into the sphere of all kinds of associations. A clear illustration of this is his prelude “Steps in the Snow.” The theme of the play is “a frozen step, as if “frozen” into the texture, which hypnotizes the listener, does not let go of his attention, forcing him to continuously watch how the trajectory of the mournful path along the snow-covered plain is drawn and lost in the distance” (E. Denisov). Many researchers believe that this degree of concentration of expressiveness elevates the motif of “Steps” to the level of “allegory of Time and Fate.”
Unlike “Steps in the Snow,” which is considered perhaps the most mysterious and strange prelude by C. Debussy, his play “The Snow is Dancing” from the “Children’s Corner” suite is clear and understandable. Complementing the author’s series of various toccatas, it is notable for its unusual impressionistic coloring, which “allows it to be considered one of the most interesting and innovative pages of the cycle.” The piano writing of the play “Snow is Dancing” is transparent and elegant, which is most likely due to the “childish” nature of this music. In style it is close to the clavier works of composers of the 17th century, in particular the miniatures of L. Couperin (1626–1661).
XX century
The music of the outstanding Russian composer Georgy Sviridov (1915–1998), created for the film based on Pushkin’s story “Blizzard,” is also associated with images of winter. The orchestral suite, compiled by the author in 1974 from the music for this film, brought its author popular love. Of this work, “Waltz” is the most popular - it perfectly matches the spirit of Pushkin’s story, revealing the innocence of its heroes, who are characterized by an integral, harmonious perception of life.
