Modeling of Cultural Memory Codes in the Works of Georgian Composers

Abstract

Cultural memory absorbs and preserves the achievements of almost all peoples of the distant and recent past. Usually, the text stored in cultural memory undergoes updating and transformation. Similar to other fields of art, musical memory is characterized by creative nature, while its constituent codes constantly evolve. Consequently, the memory of musical culture is not a passive storage of codes; on the contrary, it is modeled in a variety of different ways in the composer’s creative laboratory.

The paper analyzes the modeling process of one of the main immanent phenomena of musical memory - traditional polyphony in the works of various composers of the Georgian compositional school (S. Tsintsadze, S. Nasidze, G. Kancheli, N. Gudiashvili, E. Chabashvili). Particularly, the process of adapting the characteristic codes of folk thinking to the latest technological achievements of composition, specific means of form creation, new types of polyphonic texture, has been studied.