Synthesis of Music and Dance Art as a Creative Phenomenon of Medieval Culture

The article is devoted to identifying a number of the most characteristic features of the development of the phenomenon of artistic performance as a creative phenomenon of medieval culture.The publication focuses primarily on artistic, musical and choreographic arts, the interaction of which is considered in the light of the specifics of the phenomenon of synthetic artistic performance in the cultural and historical period of the Middle Ages.It is established that the phenomenon of artistic performance as a synthetic creative phenomenon of medieval culture has a clear establishment in European artistic practice.Even in the times of the early Middle Ages, when the persecution of instrumental musicians, dancers, itinerant artists by the clergy was the strongest, the development of the specified artistic practice took place.The improvisational nature of the artistic performance of minstrels, jugglers, spielmen, pipers, skoromokhs laid the foundations for the development of solo performance both in the field of musical instrumental practice and in the realm of creativity of master dancers.The article claims that solo improvisation has established the corresponding components of the expressive palette of the soloist, among which the most significant are the technical perfection of the master performer, the emotional saturation of the work, the individual interpretive vision of the artistic composition by the performer.