The Academic School of Liudmila Kazantseva: An Experience of the Decade

Abstract

The year 2019 marked the tenth anniversary of the founding of the Issue-Related Research
Laboratory of Musical Content of the Volgograd State Institute of Arts and Culture. Its creation
became a natural milestone in the formation of the Academic School of Musical Content of
Liudmila Kazantseva – Doctor of Arts, Professor of the Astrakhan State Conservatory, head
of the Issue-Related Laboratory of Musical Content, titular member (academician) of the
International Academy of Information Support and the Russian Academy of Natural Sciences
and member of the Russian Composers’ Union. The leader and the “graduates” of the school
– Doctors of Arts and Candidates of Arts, most of whom are culturologists – are focused on
developing a methodology which initiates the sense-making activity of the consciousness of
the subject who enters into a dialogue with art. The theoretical concept uniting them is aimed
at viewing musical content as the artistic essence of a musical work, the manifestation and
discovery of which in any musical work forms, whether directly or indirectly, the aim of all the
elements it is endowed with. The cornerstones of musical content are: the musical sound, the
means of musical expression, intonation, musical imagery, musical dramaturgy, the theme and
the idea, as well as the “authorial image.” The basic “backbone” of musical content formed by
the composer receives artistic transformation in the interpretative activities of the performer
and the listener's perception. The results of joint scholarly research conducted by the school
have been presented in over six hundred publications, reports at Russian and international
musicological conferences, symposia and congresses. Liudmila Kazantseva’s academic school
engages in scholarly and pedagogical activities in higher and secondary musical educational
institutions, music schools and regular secondary schools of Astrakhan, Bryansk, Volgograd,
Krasnodar, Krasnoyarsk, Kurgan, Maykop, Moscow, St. Petersburg, Saratov and other cities in
Russia, as well as abroad.

Keywords: musical content, interaction between the arts, academic school, Liudmila Kazantseva.