Features of the musical metrorithm in variety vocal performance

Abstract

The article raises questions of the specifics of the musical metrorhythm in the professional pedagogical training of a variety vocalist. A discourse analysis of the concept of “metrorhythm” is offered; the problem areas of the study of the musical metrorhythm in the scientific field of estradology are determined.

One of the main problems of the variety vocal is a deep study of the foundations of the musical metrorhythm. The relevance of the issue lies in providing the representatives of the scientific and pedagogical direction with constructive knowledge on the indicated problems. The article considers not a trivial approach to the study of rhythm, from the standpoint of optional material or the basics of dividing note durations and their clear reproduction, but a proposal to prepare professional thinking for the study of artistic and aesthetic principles of rhythm in a variety vocalist.

In the educational programs of the variety-vocal direction, there is a shortage of research materials for studying the rhythmic culture on which jazz, rock and pop music are based. The study clarifies the features of the terminology of a modern vocalist (off-beat, pattern, stomping, riff, scat, crooning); the definition of the concept «drive», its specific features as a factor of the emotional state is given.

It has been established that in modern performing techniques, the content of the musical rhythm is the main instrument of the vocalist/musician's, dynamic thinking, the primary source of the formation of the intonational-dynamic way of expressing the melodic and harmonic structure. It is determined that in the professional education of a variety vocalist, not enough attention is paid to the principles of the rhythmic language of jazz as a special type of musical aesthetics and the improvisational component of music making. Practical examples of vocal part correlation based on metrorhythmic interpretation are given.

The article focuses on the importance of an in-depth study of vocal rhythm, mastering the metrorhythmic principles of performing technique, which properly enriches and effectively complements the artistic and aesthetic side of vocal variety art.