The invitation to the dance…

Abstract

The article considers the origin
of waltz and its existing in cultural life of
Europe and Russia. The waltz finds the heartfelt
image in works of literary artists, and the
waltzes created by the composers are means of
the emotional response to literary works. The
correlation between waltz music and verbal
images of the writers is an effective means of
schoolchildrens comprehension of an ideologically
artful originality of the work. The article
consistently compares the fairy tale Cinderella
of S. Perro and the ballet with the same name
of S. Prokofiev, the drama Masquerade of M.
Lermontov and the music of A. Hachaturjan,
the novel War and peace of L. Tolstoy and the
opera of S. Prokofiev; and it analyses a role of
interrelation, interaction between a word and
a piece of music in school analysis of literary
works.