Chanson - a musical direction, known to alland to everyone. However, almost no one can give an accurate and correct answer to the question of what is a chanson. Where did this musical direction come from, what kind of music can be attributed to it?
There are two definitions of such a musical direction as chanson:
- French word for "chanson"translates as "song." In the era of the Middle Ages and the Renaissance, chanson was called a polyphony song in French. Such vocals were a whole genre. Later, Chanson became a French pop song performed in the style of cabaret.
- В России, так же, как и во Франции, понятие "Chanson" refers to a collection of various genres and directions of Russian music. Most often it is associated with a bard song and urban romance. Also in this musical direction in Russia are often attributed, and some emigrant, Russian folk and even pop songs.
In the early twentieth century, the new musical directionappears in Russia, it immediately begins to enjoy particular popularity. What is a chanson, what purpose do its representatives pursue - questions that stir the thoughts of all music lovers who have paid attention to this genre. Many people define chanson only as the music of thieves and prisoners. And few people know that the works about hard fate, betrayal of a friend, unhappy love are the brightest representatives of the new direction in music for Russia. The songs of chanson were performed by such famous people as Leonid Utesov and the inimitable Vladimir Vysotsky, our contemporaries Vika Tsyganova, Stas Mikhailov, Lyubov Uspenskaya, Alexander Rosenbaum and, of course, Mikhail Krug. Chanson in Russia is always a song and music from the heart, from the very depths of the human soul.
No one can tell what chanson is,better than the song itself. A real hymn to all chanson was the work "Museum of Chanson" performed by Konstantin Kuklin. Nothing will tell about chanson better than the lines from this song written by N. Rassadin:
There is good, there are the right people,
There is what was, what is and will be.
There is no falsehood, and everything is in full view,
So, however, it should be in chanson.
And the following lines say the best aboutwhat and for whom this ancient musical genre exists: "He absorbed everything in himself: war and zone, love and pain from north to south, enemy to death and to death of a friend ..." ".
Sensual and beautiful
In order to find the answer to the question thatis a chanson, you need to move away from stereotypes. Forget about the "thieves" and thieves' songs, learn a little about this musical direction and listen to the works of this kind. Only then can you understand and feel the pain, love, despair and other strong emotions that permeate through each work. After all, if these songs were only about prisons, thieves and criminals, then Yuri Nikulin would hardly have sung "Take care of clowns", Lyubov Uspenskaya - "Cabriolet", and Alexander Rosenbaum gave us his magic "Waltz-Boston". And modern performers (for example, Grigory Leps) are no longer even perceived as representatives of this style, and in fact their songs are nothing but real Russian chanson about real feelings.
