S. Prokofiev and A. Honegger: Analogies of artistic incarnations
The article addresses a number of characteristic phenomena in the music of Sergei Prokofiev and Arthur Honegger. The works under consideration, dating back to the 1910s - early 1920s, reveal an artistic relationship in terms of problems and methods of musical embodiment - harmonic, textured, rhythmic, compositional. The circle of the studied works includes the Scythian Suite, the cantata The Seven of Them, the ballet The Tale of the Jester, Seven Fools Who Joked by S. Prokofiev and the symphonic poem Song of Nigamon, the mimic symphony The Winner of Horace, the stage production of Proverbs about games of the world A. Honegger.