Musicology Annotation << Back Cantata «Apotheosis of an artist» and other S.I. Taneev's Choral Jokes Vladimir Tereshchenko The article is devoted to an interesting and little studied part of S.I. Taneev’s creativity, to his musical humor. The author briefly analyzes three choral miniatures — «Specialist is like a gumboil», «The Fountain», «Lying in a bed». The author also analyzed the previously unknown comic cantata «Apotheosis of an artist», which he found in the archives. Taneev’s creative method in musical jokes is to endow initially not serious literary text with the new allegorical content through a variety of musical semantic techniques. There is a close connection between the comic works and the main serious part of Taneev’s creativity. This connection lies in a certain range of themes and ideas of his works. Keywords: S.I. Taneev, music, humor, joke, allegory, choir, cantata. Contacts: E-mail: tereshchenko@mail.ru Pp. 37-44.