Intertype evolution of the Black Dog composition in Robert Plant’ musical legacy
The article is devoted to the analysis of Led Zeppelin’s composition Black Dog and its compositional and performing versions. This musical material is a good example of the interaction of music in fundamentally different areas – rock music and ethnic music of Africa. Initially having related directly to rock music, the Black Dog composition in the 21st century became the object of numerous author interpretations that transformed this composition into an ethnic format. The article traces the process of such a transformation over a long period and reveals a definite pattern. The degree of interaction of the elements of the musical language of two different areas is increasing towards the predominance of the ethnic field in the most recent versions of the composition. To determine the degree of mixing ethnic and rock music, expressive means are differentiated in three levels: intonation, timbre and composition.