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Polyphonic concerto for four keyboard instruments, choir and percussion. 19 counterpoints
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Marina Rakhmanova
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Soviet Composer (photocopy)

Kp. No. 4 in the collection Soviet Organ Music. Vol. 4.

M. 1977

MZK. 12.11.1991

8 kp. including 19 kp.

L. Shishkhanova, T. Alikhanov, L. Golub, M. Ermolaev (Kollontai). Chapel named after Yurlov (S. Gusev)


Yaroslavl. 02/09/1996

T. Alikhanov, M. Ermolaev (Kollontai), L. Shishkhanova, L. Golub, Kh. Abbyasov, “Glas” choir (V. Trishin) First performance – Notebooks 1, 2, kp. 1–10

Author and M. Rakhmanova.

MZK. 22.01.1970


6 kp, including kp. 19 –

Yaroslavl. 6.12.1980

M. Voskresensky, author, L. Shishkhanova, M. Voskresenskaya, Kh. Abbyasov. Motor plant choir (M. Zinoviev)


9 kp. from different notebooks, including 19 kp: MZK. 01/24/1984.

M. Voskresensky, T. Alikhanov, L. Golub, L. Shishkhanova, author. Choir – I. Zhuravlenko


Separate kp (8) – KZM 05/14/2017. Studio of new music


Yuri Butsko's "Polyphonic Concerto" is a cycle of 19 counterpoints in five notebooks. The division into notebooks is related to the use of instruments: the first notebook is the play of solo instruments (respectively, four counterpoints), the second notebook is the paired play of different combinations of the same instruments (six counterpoints), the third notebook is a triple play (four counterpoints), the fourth notebook is again solo instruments and, finally, the fifth notebook is the final counterpoint of all participants, and in the finale, for the first time in the cycle, the choir enters (with additional support from percussion instruments). The total duration of the composition is about three and a half hours of sound.

Each counterpoint is based on an authentic melody from ancient Russian liturgical chant books. Chants from different ones are used – Octoechos, Irmologion, Obikhod, Feasts, these chants relate to different church services – liturgy, all-night vigil, Holy Week and Easter services, but they all belong to the “classical” era of znamenny chant, that is, to the 16th–17th centuries, and therefore have a unity of style.

All eight voices of Russian church singing fit into the so-called "everyday" scale: from the G minor octave to the R second octave, with the lower B combined in this scale with the upper B flat. The scale is divided into homogeneous "consonances" of three sounds each, accordingly the consonances are separated from each other by a minor second, and their lower tones are in a quartal relationship.

All this determines both the melody (horizontal) and the chord (vertical) of the Polyphonic Concerto.

Butsko expanded the singing range of the “everyday” scale of sounds (as is known, no instruments are used in the Orthodox Church) into several “harmonies”

up and down: in the author's terminology, "two zones of expansion". In this way, the scale acquires the semblance of a closed chain, where each link can be repeated in a different register after 12 links.

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