Music and Time Annotation << Back The Instrumental Ritual as a Variety of the Instrumental Theatre V. Petrov The XXth century played an important role in the emergence and formation of new musical genres. As such there can be called an instrumental theatre, combining in itself signs of a number of arts. One of its varieties is an instrumental ritual, embodied in the compositions of G. Crumb, V. Martynov, Tan Dun, examined in the article under consideration. Here there are supposed to be not only the presence of theatrical actions of performers, what may seem natural at the necessity of visual demonstration of "ritual" details in the scenic realization of the opus, but also the penetration of the word as such. The synthesis of arts, characteristic for the second part of the XXth century, has exactly found in embodiment in the instrumental ritual. Keywords: instrumental theatre, ritual, the synthesis of arts Pp. 33–37 E-mail: petrovagk@yandex.ru