High Art Of Russian Pop Music In The Song Mono-Opera Reflection

Russian song, also known as mass or Soviet song, occupies a central place in the culture of the 20'th century. In the history of music, the phenomenon of a genre as a symbol of an era is known. For example, when mentioning a French motet of the 13'th century, every musician thinks of certain ideas of musical form and means of expression that determined the movement of European musical thought for several centuries. Or, when an Italian madrigal of the 16'th century is heard, a musical laboratory immediately opens up to our ears, a laboratory in which colourful patterns of major and minor modes, the sound of keys, and even the theory of affects of modern times, which appeared in opera, were formed. Also, German polypho-ny of the 17t'h century, Neapolitan opera and Viennese symphony of the 18'th century, Russian opera and romance of the 19'th century, etc., are distinguished by epochal characteristics. Song as a genre of the era has also flashed across the horizon of centuries. The century close to our time, the 20'th century, an extremely difficult period for our Fatherland, was marked by the strong position of this genre. Russia has not experienced such a frequency of shocks over a short period of time in its observable history. The last century brought our state to the brink of extinction three times: during the First World War and the revolution at the beginning of the century, during the Second World War in the middle of the century, during the destruction of the USSR and in the 1990's at the end of the era. One gets the impression that the tragic reality was compensated by the desire for a transparent “mass” culture, expressed in the language of song. In such a situ- ation, how can one not see the possibility of entertainment and distraction in a song? However, Russian pop music of the 20'th century took a different path. Taking up the banner of the great Russian musical culture, it ans-wered the main ideological questions of the era.