Features of Dramaturgy of Ptushkin’s Piano Suite “Theater Kaleidoscope”

bstract
The problems of the art wholeness of musical composition are actual for both composer’s and
performer’s creative work. The article suggests the study of V. Ptushkin’s “Theater Kaleidoscope”
piano suite, its drama peculiarities as one of the possible variants of the problem solution. Genrehistorical ties and music-genre panorama of the Ptushkin’s cycle are analyzed in the article. The drama
suite features in the author’s application of everyday life dances are described in this publication. The
Waltz peculiarities as genre basis drama in the third cycle part are analyzed. The role of two types of
drama in the formation of the artistic integrity of the suite is studied on reasonable and objective
criteria. The novelty of the suggested problem is in the definition of its genre-historical ties with the
ancient chamber suite and with the commedia dell’arte. It also involves the value of a dramatic suite
type as the main organizing principle of the entire cycle. The “event”, lyric-dramatic type of the
dramaturgy in the third suite part is based. The connection of the inner dramaturgy of the third part
and the structural organization of the artistic wholeness are determined. This is the basis of the ternary
in the entire cycle. The role of the fourth part as the final and the original reprise returning of the
drama suite type are noted.