Music and Time Annotation << Back Folk Instruments in the Drama of the Ballet V.A. Gavrilin «Home on the Road» A.M. Demidov In the creative heritage V.A. Gavrilin the music for theatre and cinema is very important. The specifics of the work with the «applied» genres, collaborating with directors, screenwriters and actors, of course, has affected all the composer’s works. Experience in film and theater find its reflection in «mixed» genres (oratorio-action «Buffoons», vocal-symphonic poem «War letters», a choral symphony-action «Chimes»), and in such traditional theatrical genre of ballet. All four of ballet Gavrilin were originally written as a television ballets: «Anyuta» (1982), «Home on the road» (1984), «Sub-Lieutenant Romashov» (1986) and «The Marriage of Balzaminov» (1989). Keywords: V. Gavrilin, music for ballets, Russian folk instruments, «Home on the road». Contacts: E-mail: demidov3000@yandex.ru Pp. 26-32.