The Academic School of Liudmila Kazantseva: An Experience of the Decade1
The year 2019 marked the tenth anniversary of the founding of the Issue-Related Research Laboratory of Musical Content of the Volgograd State Institute of Arts and Culture. Its creation became a natural milestone in the formation of the Academic School of Musical Content of Liudmila Kazantseva - Doctor of Arts, Professor of the Astrakhan State Conservatory, head of the Issue-Related Laboratory of Musical Content, titular member (academician) of the International Academy of Information Support and the Russian Academy of Natural Sciences and member of the Russian Composers' Union. The leader and the “graduates” of the schoolDoctors of Arts and Candidates of Arts, most of whom are culturologists - are focused on developing a methodology which initiates the sense-making activity of the consciousness of the subject who enters into a dialogue with art. The theoretical concept uniting them is aimed at viewing musical content as the artistic essence of a musical work, the manifestation and discovery of which in any musical work forms, whether directly or indirectly, the aim of all the elements it is endowed with. The cornerstones of musical content are: the musical sound, the means of musical expression, intonation, musical imagery, musical dramaturgy, the theme and the idea, as well as the “authorial image.” The basic “backbone” of musical content formed by the composer receives artistic transformation in the interpretative activities of the performer and the listener's perception. The results of joint scholarly research conducted by the school have been presented in over six hundred publications, reports at Russian and international musicological conferences, symposia and congresses. Liudmila Kazantseva's academic school engages in scholarly and pedagogical activities in higher and secondary musical educational institutions, music schools and regular secondary schools of Astrakhan, Bryansk, Volgograd, Krasnodar, Krasnoyarsk, Kurgan, Maykop, Moscow, St. Petersburg, Saratov and other cities in Russia, as well as abroad.