Baroque trends in artistic heritage in relation to saxophone music by the composers of the second half of the 19th - beginning of the 21st century

It is for the first time when a theoretical analysis of such a large layer of music for the saxophone was carried out as part of the concern for the problem of reflecting the composers’ trends and performance traditions of the Baroque era in the artistic heritage of the second half of the 19th - early 21st centuries. The research revealed that the implementation of Baroque trends is very diverse and is associated not only with their transfer to a new historical environment and their rethinking, but also, to a certain extent, their simultaneous combination. The transfer of performance traditions determined the emergence of opuses for ensembles with a strict textural separation of instrumental parts without a clear functional regulation of the cast; variable choice between saxophone and its tessitura varieties as well as string, other wind instruments or even voice; increasing the number of solo artists by attracting homogeneous instruments or by combining the saxophone with other wind and strings. The transfer of composers’ trends was characterized by the preservation of the features inherited by genre and style models. This contributed to the use of Baroque forms, the principles of the development of thematic material, cyclic regularities, etc. Rethinking of the stylistic model led to a kind of allusive «references» to the Baroque period - quoting the opuses of the Baroque era; introduction of various program subtitles, rhetorical figures, baroque «codes»; the choice of timbre of the instrument accompanying the saxophone; the combination of pieces of contrasting nature «in pairs».