On New Findings in the History of Creating Music for a Play "The Bug" by Mayakovsky: Shostakovich and the Others Ones…

Abstract

The article is aimed to reveal the cultural context of a key scene in one of the paintings of Vladimir Mayakovsky's play "The Bug" ("Klop"), written in 1928. As a result of analyze the text of this scene, which is a satirical stylization of one of the stanzas of M.I. Ozhegov's popular romance at that time, and the corresponding musical fragment from the music created by Dmitry Shostakovich for the play, it was revealed that not only the poet used the words of M.I. Ozhegov, but also the composer borrowed the melody of the romance of this peasant songwriter.

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