Image of Ivan the Terrib le and his epoch in the context of the searches and implementation of Russi an national-cultural identity in musi cal art (to the formulation of the scientific research problem)

Abstract

The author determines the relevance of the study by the absence of special works dedicated to
the composers’ searches of Russian national musical identity in the disclosure of the artistic image
of Ivan the Terrible and his era. Specificity of the historical path of Russia, largely predetermined by
Tsar Ivan, intensifies attention to the problem of finding a national identity in art through his artistic
image. The hymnographic musical works of the Tsar Ivan’s authorship are allocated as representational
sources of study. The most important sources for solving the problem are also the works of outstanding
composers of the 19th-21th centuries A. Rubinstein, P. Tchaikovsky, N. Rimsky-Korsakov, S. Prokofiev,
R. Shchedrin, S. Slonimsky et al. The author proposes to consider the musical embodiment of the
idea of the national cultural identity in the image of Ivan the Terrible, taking into account the correlation
with the fundamental foundations of the Old Russian musical written culture and folklore, with
the principles of the Russian national classical school of music, with the reflection of the Western
European achievements within the framework of author’s style of each of composers.