After the Second World War, ethnographers were surprised to find airfields, radio cabins, and even life-size aircraft built by local tribes from bamboo, wood, leaves, vines, and other improvised materials on many islands of the Pacific Ocean. The solution to such strange structures was soon found. It’s all about the so-called cargo cults. During World War II, the Americans built airfields on the islands to supply the army. Valuable cargo was delivered to the airfields: clothes, canned food, tents and other useful things, some of which were given to local residents in exchange for hospitality, guide services, etc. When the war ended, and the bases were empty, the natives themselves…

Dear readers, subscribers! We sincerely congratulate you on the holiday – International Music Day! This day has been celebrated every year around the world on October 1 for over 40 years. The holiday was established in 1974 by the UNESCO International Music Council. We are sure that music plays a huge role in the life of every person. Let’s remember the words of the great about music. A.S. Pushkin in the play “The Stone Guest” from the cycle “Little Tragedies” wrote: “Out of the pleasures of life, one love, music is inferior, but love is a melody.” V.A. Mozart liked to say: “Music is my life, and my life is…

In the music world, the first month of autumn is a kind of transition from rest to the resumption of concert activity, the expectation of new premieres. The breath of summer is still felt, but the musicians are already planning things for the new season. September was marked by the birth of several gifted musicians at once. These are composers D. Shostakovich, A. Dvorak, J. Frescobaldi, M. Oginsky, conductor Yevgeny Svetlanov, violinist David Oistrakh. Creators of enchanting melodies 3 September 1803 years in Moscow, in the house of a church composer, serf musician was born Alexander Gurilev. He entered the history of music as the author of delightful lyrical romances.…

Many find it difficult to remember which steps rise or fall in different modes. Meanwhile, it is much easier to build any mode, without remembering it at all. First, let’s listen to how the frets from the note sound. to: And now let’s see how the notes of these modes are located in the space of multiplicities (PC). Rice. 1 – Frets in the space of multiplicities You can notice two things: the order of notes on the horizontal axis in the PC coincides with the order of notes on the fourth-quint circle: to the right is the sound one fifth higher, to the left – one fifth lower; each…

There are three main types of major. Just like in the case of minor, these are natural, harmonic and melodic modes. Let’s take a closer look at the features of each type. natural major This is the simplest scale, built according to the principle of alternating tones and semitones: “2 tones – semitone – 3 tones – semitone.” In total, there are eight musical steps in such a scale (I, II, III, IV, V, VI, VII and again I). And, according to the formula for the structure of this scale, between the I and II steps there should be a distance of one whole tone, between the II and III…

August is the end of summer. This month is usually not rich in musical events, theater troupes take a break from tours, and you will hardly see premieres on theater stages. Nevertheless, he gave the world a lot of celebrities who left their mark on music. Among them are composers A. Glazunov, A. Alyabyev, A. Salieri, K. Debussy, vocalists M. Bieshu, A. Pirogov, conductor V. Fedoseev. Rulers of the strings of the soul 10 August 1865 year composer came into the world Alexander Glazunov. A friend of Borodin, he completed the unfinished works of the master from memory. As a teacher, Glazunov supported the young Shostakovich during the period of…

Dear our readers! Dear teachers and parents! We have good news for you. Textbooks on solfeggio and musical literature, any notes and workbooks, as well as other teaching aids necessary in the educational process, you can order in the Art Transit online store of educational literature on art www.classica21.ru with discount. To receive a discount on your purchase, you must specify when ordering discount card number of our site 0241. The ordered literature is sent by the Russian Post (there are various payment methods, including card payment and cash on delivery), or by the SDEK delivery service (cities where there are points of issue, see HERE). Note that CDEK is…

July is the crown of summer, a time for rest, recuperation. In the music world, this month was not rich in events and high-profile premieres. But there is one interesting fact: in July, famous singers were born – masters of vocal art, the fame of which is still alive – these are Tamara Sinyavskaya, Elena Obraztsova, Sergey Lemeshev, Praskovya Zhemchugova. The peak of summer is marked by the birth of famous composers and instrumental performers: Louis Claude Daquin, Gustav Mahler, Carl Orff, Van Cliburn. Legendary Composers 4 July 1694 year born French composer, harpsichordist and organist Louis Claude Daquin. During his lifetime, he became famous as a brilliant improviser and…

Despite the technological imperfection of instruments and the lack of means of artificial sound reproduction, ancient civilizations could not imagine their existence without music, which merged with the daily life of people several thousand years ago. However, only grains of the heritage of the ancient peoples have come down to us, and at best we can speculate about it only from literary sources. However, the musical art of Sumer and Dynastic Egypt, due to the catastrophic lack of such sources, is almost impossible to recreate. And yet, archaeologists have brought into modernity a small part of the departed eras, and musicians, based on historical descriptions, are trying to fill in…

June is the month that opens the long-awaited summer, the month of the birth of bright people. In June, the music world celebrates the birthdays of such masters as Mikhail Glinka, Aram Khachaturian, Robert Schumann, Igor Stravinsky. Coincidentally, the premieres of Stravinsky’s ballets Petrushka and The Firebird also took place this month. Their talent has survived the ages 1 June 1804 year a composer was born in the Smolensk province, whose importance in the development of national Russian culture cannot be overestimated – Mikhail Ivanovich Glinka. Based on the centuries-old achievements of professional and folk Russian music, he summed up the process of formation of the national school of composers.…