LAUGHTER CONSCIOUSNESS OF N.GOGOL PROJECTED ON MUSICAL THEATER
This article reveals the features of comic consciousness of N. Gogol and its implementations within the musical theater. The author refers to one of the most original interpretation of Gogol story «The Night Before Christmas» by the modern Ukrainian ballet composer Stankovych. Its musical score reveals grotesque deformation of the musical text, mimicking techniques, deliberate primitivization audio material and stylistic dissonance, aimed at solving the ambivalent nature of laugher consciousness of the great Russian satirist.