THE EASTERN THEME IN THE CHAMBER-INSTRUMENTAL WORKS TATIANA SMIRNOVA: "PERSIAN MOTIFS"
The article analyzes the cycle of arabesques on poems by O. Hayyam and S. Yesenin, a prominent Russian composer Tatyana Smirnova “Persian motifs”. As the main methods that the composer uses in this work, intertextuality and style allusion are distinguished. The author considers the features of the musical content of the cycle sections in its relations with the context of middle Eastern (Persian and Iranian) music, and also pays attention to the problem of the performance interpretation of the cycle.