VOCAL MUSIC.
Music created for voice or many voices, - the earliest form of musical art. Even at the dawn of human society for people to use voice sound signals to communicate with each other. Thus, from the same root have human speech and music.
With the development of human societies have evolved and become more complex and forms of vocal music. But for a long time she remained closely associated with work and life, was inseparable from the dance, and play. And even became an independent art, music continued to exist in an indissoluble union with the speech, the word was for the most vocal. Musical instruments until the beginning of the XVII century served a modest role maintenance or replacement of missing votes.
Vocal music includes a wide variety of genres: songs, ballads, and works for vocal ensembles, choral music and opera. And everywhere there are two elements: music and words. Vocal works without words, such as a concerto for voice and orchestra R. Glier, - a rare exception.
Between words and music - a lot in common. In most human speech is the musical element - the intonation. It not only gives voice expressiveness and emotionality, but also carries a specific meaning: the same words spoken with different intonations, and have a different meaning. Here, for example, dialogue, consisting of repetition of words, but with different - an interrogative intonation in the affirmative: "We arrived? - Arrived. "
In music, especially vocal intonation - the basis of expression. Sometimes the melody of a musical phrase is born directly from the intonations of speech. Composer as a "writing from life," listening in typical speech intonations and transposing them into music. Interrogative, exclamatory and assertive tone becomes musical intonations. Their verbal nature continues to be felt, most notably in opera recitatives. But this is not always the case. When it is singing, there are new qualities of this musical art. If the speech rises and lower voices are subordinated to the sense of the phrase, the music tends to make them in repetition, rhythmic measured. That's why most vocal pieces are written in the poetic text: re-chords - rhyming, rhythmic measured characteristic is the most poetic speech. And it is not surprising, as poetry and music emerged from the once united arts - song.