“MUSIC FOR PERFORMING” AND “MUSIC FOR LISTENING” IN THE INSTRUMENTAL COMPOSITIONS FOR CHILDREN OF V. G. TRAPEZNIKOV
The article attempts to identify the characteristic feature of various areas of children’s music (“music for performance” and “music for listening”) by analyzing the content plans and artistic texts of instrumental compositions for children of the Ural composer V. G. Trapeznikov. The research is the notebook piano pieces “Toys” and a Suite for folk instruments “Tales for Alyonushka”, which was created based on the work of the same name by D. N. Mom’s Siberian. The work is based on the installation method of the intonation theory and the theory of musical genres, on the thesis of children psychology and on the theory of musical perception. The author determines the main criteria, which indicate the belonging of the considered compositions to different areas of children’s music: the type of program in instrumental music, the presence of imaging contrast within the pieces, the scale of the musical form, the level of technical complexity of the opus, the type of performer of the composition and the communicative situation of the existence of the work. In the considered instrumental works of V. G. Trapeznikov for children, the Ural composer appears to be an interesting storyteller, able to create vivid, memorable musical images and stories that are close and understandable to everyone; eternal themes of humanism, childhood and love for the native land are revealed.