Most likely, in former Soviet years, I would have to start an article on a similar topic with V.Lenin’s classical statement about the music of the German composer L.van Beethoven, which the leader of the world proletariat called "divine" and "inhuman."
The orthodox communists willingly quote the first part of Lenin's statement that music awakens sentimentality in him, that one wants to cry, stroke children on the heads, and speak cute nonsense. Meanwhile, there is also a second part - far from being so sentimental: Ilyich seems to come to her senses and recalls that now is not the time, “it’s necessary not to iron, but to hit the heads, and it hurts to beat”.
Anyway, Lenin was talking about the impact of music on a person, on his emotions and feelings. And is the voice of a singer, performer able to affect the innermost strings of the soul, to cause a real revolution in it? And how!
When everything hits the spot!
It is well known that fans love song art very selectively. Some listen for the sake of the performer, others for the sake of music and arrangement, others enjoy good poetic text. Rarely when everything fits into one point - then we can talk about a musical masterpiece.
Do you know the sensation when, at the very first sounds of another person's voice, you get goosebumps, and then something like a chill happens when it throws alternately into fever or cold? Sure!
"March, march, forward, working people!"
Voice can call on the barricades. Especially if metal sounds in it, unshakable confidence in the rightness of the matter, readiness to give his life for it. In the films “Young Guard”, the girls doomed to death sing the Ukrainian folk song about the falcon in chorus “I marvel at heaven”, in the film “Maxim’s Youth” the prisoners pick up “Varshavyanka”. The gendarmes shut their mouths, but in vain.
High means shrill!
A voice is also a timbre. Author's singing - timbre singing. "Silver Voice" of Russia Oleg Pogudin - performer with a high timbre. To some, such a performance does not seem masculine, not manly. How to say ... Here, for example, piercing Russian folk song "That’s not the wind that drives a branch" performed by him. It seems impossible not to be filled with emotions:
Lower, lower ...
And yet, low-baritone performers, with a low timbre of the voice, have a far more magical effect on the public, especially on the female half. Such is the French chanson Joe Dassin. In addition to the thoughtful appearance - the white shirt, wide open on the chest, from under which dark hair is visible - he conquered the audience with charisma and sincere performance. From the first chords, from the first sounds of the voice, the soul is carried away somewhere far away - to the ideal, to the sky:
Finally, Vladimir Vysotsky - who saw each person in the hall, always worked with full dedication and could not wheeze when he sang about love. Here all the women were his!
In short, the impact of music on a person is not just great - it is akin to catharsis. However, this is the topic of the next article ...
The author - Pavel Malofeev
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