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Clausius, Katharina. "Historical Mirroring, Mirroring History." Journal of Musicology 30, no. 2 (2013): 215–51. http://dx.doi.org/10.1525/jm.2013.30.2.215.
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Visualizing his interaction with music’s history in Expositions and Developments, Stravinsky enigmatically describes his early neoclassical work Pulcinella as a “look in the mirror.” This spatial account of Pulcinella’s stylistic imitation reflects the crucial visual contribution of Stravinsky’s collaborators Pablo Picasso and Léonide Massine. The ballet’s humorous and playful collaboration among the arts insists on a thoroughly performative neoclassicism; Pulcinella takes neoclassicism’s conceptual negotiation with time and grounds it in the immediate physical spaces of its music, choreography, and set design. Whereas neoclassicism is often theorized as an overt antagonism between present and past, Pulcinella’s visual aesthetic recasts its historicism as a lighthearted dialogue among the various arts. Written in the same decade as Stravinsky’s ballet, Mikhail Bakhtin’s Author and Hero in Aesthetic Activity draws a compelling image of the visual symbiosis between author and work. This appealingly cooperative model, I argue, offers a new philosophical aesthetic for Pulcinella’s interdisciplinary historicism. I take Bakhtin’s concept of authorship as the basis for an appreciation of Pulcinella’s project to reinstate history as an equal, positive collaborator in its neoclassical interaction.
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Wheeldon, Marianne. "Anti-Debussyism and the Formation of French Neoclassicism." Journal of the American Musicological Society 70, no. 2 (2017): 433–74. http://dx.doi.org/10.1525/jams.2017.70.2.433.
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Much of the literature on neoclassicism in music focuses on Stravinsky or on the Stravinsky-Schoenberg polemic that emerged in the mid-1920s. Yet both approaches to neoclassicism bypass a crucial moment in its early formation: the former neglects Stravinsky's engagement with the musical priorities of postwar Paris, while the latter ignores the fact that many of the themes that would later crystallize under the banner of neoclassicism were first developed in opposition not to Schoenberg's music but to Debussy's. As described by Jacques Rivière in a letter to Stravinsky of 1919, the postwar musical climate was “anti-impressionist, anti-symbolist, and anti-Debussyist.” This article revisits the debates that appeared in the Parisian musical press between 1919 and 1923, a period in which the term “neoclassicism” had not yet been coined but in which a new, anti-Debussyist aesthetic was nevertheless emerging. Recognizing the role of anti-Debussyism in the formation of neoclassicism is necessary if we are to understand the motivation behind the movement, a motivation that was responsible for establishing its compositional priorities, instrumentation, and aesthetic. Regardless of what neoclassicism later came to represent—be it a return to counterpoint, to Bach, or to the eighteenth century—its initial impetus was much more straightforward. Rather than looking to pre-Romantic traditions, its beginnings were to be found closer to home, going no further back than the reaction against Debussy, Debussyism, and the prewar generation.
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Mikić, Vesna. "Constituting Neoclassicism in Serbia or: How and Why Neoclassicism Can Be Understood as Modernism – a Study of Ristić’s Second Symphony." Musicological Annual 43, no. 2 (December 1, 2007): 99–104. http://dx.doi.org/10.4312/mz.43.2.99-104.
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The paper examines the possible re-contextualization of the Serbian musical neoclassicism in the field of (sober) modernism/socialist aestheticism characteristic for Serbian art and literature of the fifties. From that perspective, the Second Symphony (1951) by Milan Ristić is seen as the constitutive piece of neoclassicism/sober modernism, i.e. of artistic tendency that is going to become very important for understanding Serbian music in the second half of the 20th century.
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Taruskin, Richard. "Back to Whom? Neoclassicism as Ideology." 19th-Century Music 16, no. 3 (1993): 286–302. http://dx.doi.org/10.2307/746396.
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Messing, Scott. "Polemic as History: The Case of Neoclassicism." Journal of Musicology 9, no. 4 (1991): 481–97. http://dx.doi.org/10.2307/763872.
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Messing, Scott. "Polemic as History: The Case of Neoclassicism." Journal of Musicology 9, no. 4 (October 1991): 481–97. http://dx.doi.org/10.1525/jm.1991.9.4.03a00050.
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Leshkova Zelenkovs, Aida Islam, and Stefanija Leshkova Zelenkovs. "Musical Elements in the Performing Approach: Sonatina in C for Two Pianos from a Macedonian Contemporary Composer." Musicological Annual 52, no. 1 (June 27, 2016): 41–50. http://dx.doi.org/10.4312/mz.52.1.41-50.
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Tomislav Zografski (1934–2000) is one of the representatives of the middle generation of modern Macedonian composers. He introduced into Macedonian art music the basic elements of neoclassicism. Zografski, in some of his works, develops this stylistic direction in the fields of chamber and symphony music.
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Fulcher, Jane F. "The Composer as Intellectual: Ideological Inscriptions in French Interwar Neoclassicism." Journal of Musicology 17, no. 2 (1999): 197–230. http://dx.doi.org/10.2307/763888.
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Fulcher, Jane F. "The Composer as Intellectual: Ideological Inscriptions in French Interwar Neoclassicism." Journal of Musicology 17, no. 2 (April 1999): 197–230. http://dx.doi.org/10.1525/jm.1999.17.2.03a00010.
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Chew, Geoffrey. "Pastoral and neoclassicism: A reinterpretation of Auden's and Stravinsky's Rake's Progress." Cambridge Opera Journal 5, no. 3 (November 1993): 239–63. http://dx.doi.org/10.1017/s0954586700004055.
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It is a commonplace that the poetry best suited to an operatic libretto has fewer pretensions, and more transparency in the range of interpretations that can be placed upon it, than ‘literary’ poetry. Otherwise, it will scarcely bear the weight of the music, much less contribute to the great emotional climaxes that justify opera for many listeners in the first place. And some might mistrust a libretto that is too ‘literary’ or too complicated, for metaphysical and other subtleties are not easily projected across the footlights. No one was more acutely aware of this ‘unliterary’ relationship between words and music in opera than W. H. Auden. Writing in 1948, he stated: ‘Poetry is in its essence an act of reflection, of refusing to be content with the interjections of immediate emotion in order to understand the nature of what is felt. Since music is in essence immediate, it follows that the words of a song cannot be poetry.’
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Bralović, Miloš. "Annulling the trauma: Neoclassicism as a modernist (?) antidote to society's ills." New Sound 53, no. 1 (2019): 53–69. http://dx.doi.org/10.5937/newso1901053b.
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The First World War ended a hundred years ago. This historical event of colossal proportions significantly changed both European and world history. And it is very probable that in the following years (that is, the 1920s), this event influenced many 'calls to order', to paraphrase the title of Jean Cocteau's infamous 1923 essay. Therefore, in this paper, we first examined (in the most general terms) overall historical conditions which influenced the emergence of neoclassicism in Paris, before and shortly after The Great War. With this in mind, we also examined the overall conditions of the emergence of neoclassicism in Serbian music, which (acknowledging several modest attempts before The Second World War) appeared as a (sort of) dominant movement significantly later, compared to its French counterpart, that is, in the 1950s. At this point, the only correlation between the two neoclassicism is that they both appear after significant, primarily destructive, historical events. Therefore, having in mind that after two wars of vast proportions, contexts changed, we examined the ways by which the composers (that is Igor Stravinsky and Milan Ristić, as case studies) tried to find a stable way into mainstream art and, to some extent, redevelop their poietics.
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Mikic, Vesna. "Different shapes of modernism/neoclassicism: Case study of Dusan Radic’s creative output." Muzikologija, no. 6 (2006): 267–79. http://dx.doi.org/10.2298/muz0606267m.
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This paper deals with musical neoclassicism in the context of modernism, and shows that some neoclassical features, usually considered to be reactionary and retrograde, could and should be understood as modernist. This kind of contextualization is especially important when Serbian postwar music is in question. Neoclassicism in Serbian music began in a specific ideological milieu. Paradoxically, and despite its "call for order" characteristics, it turned out to be a kind of modernistic phenomenon. On one hand it received all typical shapes of European modernism, while on the other it remains as a typical idiom of postwar Serbian musical production, blending in perfectly with the postmodern. These issues are argued and proved through analysis of some pieces written by Dusan Radic during the 1950?s. We see a kind of "disguised" modernism in the composer's subversion of the norms of national romanticism and socialist realism in the neoclassical choir piece Gungulice (1953), a modernism that is based on Freud's "reaction-formation" notion. Then, a more radical kind of modernism is followed in the piece The List for chamber ensemble (1952? 1954), arguing the notion of radical in the context of Serbian music, and coming to the conclusion that different interpretations of this piece as avant-garde, radical, or neoclassical/modernist can occur as a consequence of the listener's position. In the case of The Tower of Sculls we observe the same kind of "disguised" modernism, but now directly interwoven with proto-postmodern elements, coming from popular music practices, which is also the case in other pieces by Dusan Radic. The composer?s nonconformity, lack of pretentiousness, and inclination toward the simplicity of everyday things form his modernistic identity.
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Spaić, Maša. "Moderate modernism as the third way in the opus of Alfredo Casella." New Sound, no. 56-2 (2020): 47–69. http://dx.doi.org/10.5937/newso2055047s.
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The work of an artist is related to society, politics, and ideology, which are important aspects of the context in which the work of art is created. The multi-layered relationship between art/music and society/politics can especially be seen when we consider neoclassicism, which was for decades after the Second World War in literature defined as a stylistic movement in the service of the ruling (totalitarian) regimes. Consequently, authors of neoclassical works were criticised for returning to tradition and order, and their works for reducing expressive means. Among them, the name of Italian composer Alfredo Casella stands out, whose works were criticised because of their alleged coherence with the aesthetic requirements of the regime. Starting from the hypothesis that neoclassicism is a modernist movement, I will examine the third period of Casella's work in the context of moderate modernism, as a third way between the aesthetic requirements of the regime and modernistic expression that was characteristic of the composers' earlier period.
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TOTAN, Virginia. "Musical styles approached by Serbian composers in the first half of the 20th century." Bulletin of the Transilvania University of Braşov. Series VIII:Performing Arts 14(63), Special Issue (January 27, 2022): 183–92. http://dx.doi.org/10.31926/but.pa.2021.14.63.3.18.
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The musical creation of Serbian composers is not well known in the European area, primarily due to censorship in the first half of the 20th century when music influenced by European orientations was considered capitalist and was banned on the one hand, and on the other hand due to the fact that most of the works are written in Cyrillic and thus did not reach the European research circuit. It should be mentioned that the course of development of music history in Europe, with its periodization into stages of Baroque, Classicism, Romanticism, Impressionism, Expressionism, Neoclassicism, Avant-garde, and Postmodernism, was not applied to music in Serbia. However, all these styles will be found in the musical creations of Serbian composers in the period from the end of the 19th century and during the 20th century.
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Ballengee, Christopher. "Tonality and Neoclassicism in Stravinsky’s Sonata for Piano, Mvt. 2 (1924)." Interdisciplinary Studies in Musicology, no. 21 (November 1, 2021): 9–21. http://dx.doi.org/10.14746/ism.2021.21.1.
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Igor Stravinsky’s Sonata for Piano is an often overlooked yet important artifact of the composer’s neoclassicism. his treatment of tonality in the second movement is both literally and aurally more conventional than one might first guess. Stravinsky’s reliance on convention points to an ideology of continuity, one that honors the legacy of beethoven and other heroes. In doing so, Stravinsky’s Sonata brings forward old ideas wrought in new ways for a modern era. This essay examines ways of thinking about Stravinsky’s neoclassic style through analysis of the second movement of the Sonata focusing on the use of post-tonal techniques to create surprisingly tonal music.
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Demchenko, Alexander I. "The Musical Legacy of Igor Stravinsky." ICONI, no. 2 (2019): 137–48. http://dx.doi.org/10.33779/2658-4824.2019.2.137-148.
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The lecture of Doctor of Arts, Professor Alexander Demchenko illuminates in a concise way the evolution of the music of the outstanding composer, the main stages of which correspond with the three sections of this text: “Igor Stravinsky of the Russian period,” “Igor Stravinsky’s Neoclassicism” and “The Late Works of Igor Stravinsky.” The exposition of the topics includes listening to a number of musical fragments meant to give a general perception of the range of the composer’s artistic endeavors. The publication is addressed to students of conservatories and artistic institutions of higher education.
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O., Justice, and Emmanuel O.A. "The Creation of Abelengro: A Cross-Cultural Art Music Composition." Journal of Advanced Research and Multidisciplinary Studies 1, no. 1 (May 14, 2021): 13–25. http://dx.doi.org/10.52589/jarms-mzflgssm.
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Ethnomusicology has an important mission of providing a body of musical knowledge that can be drawn on by artist-composers, performers, dancers as well as scholars in the field of music. The paper therefore presents an outcome of a creative ethnomusicological study of abele music among the Yeji people of the Bono-East Region in Ghana. Using Euba’s theory of creative ethnomusicology and Nketia’s concept of syncretism, the study highlights the indigenous elements of abele musical genre and unearths the process where these elements were used to create a musical artefact called Abelengro. Data for the study were collected through observation and adopted definitive analysis to provide the materials for the composition. The study revealed that Abele music contains rich source materials for creating a neoclassicism of African traditional music that could be enjoyed by a wide range of people. It is envisaged that these rich indigenous musical elements and idioms are harnessed by contemporary art musicians to achieve the uniqueness of African identity in art music compositions in Ghana.
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WHITTALL, ARNOLD. "‘Unbounded Visions’: Boulez, Mallarmé and Modern Classicism." Twentieth-Century Music 1, no. 1 (March 2004): 65–80. http://dx.doi.org/10.1017/s1478572204000064.
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Pli selon pli is Boulez’s richest encounter with Mallarmé. As a ‘portrait’ of the poet which sets three of his sonnets, it can be associated not only with other composers – Ravel, Debussy – who set Mallarmé, but also with the poet’s own views on music, and his radical yet tradition-conscious formal practices. Structural and poetic aspects of the fourth movement of the work, ‘Improvisation III’, are examined in detail, highlighting Boulez’s increasing concern with matters of formal coherence. This suggests a strengthening resistance to modernism as fragmentation and the embrace of a modern classicism which shuns the fixed hierarchies of tonal classicism as well as the parodistic juxtapositions of neoclassicism. At the same time, however, the multiple resonances on which modern classicism depends for its coherence ensure that certain aspects of Mallarmé-inspired narrative – concerning shipwrecks and sirens, among other things – cannot be entirely suppressed in present-day critical commentary.
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Gritten, Anthony. "Multiple Masks: Neoclassicism in Stravinsky's Works on Greek Subjects. By Maureen Carr. Lincoln, Nebraska: University of Nebraska Press, £57.00." Tempo 59, no. 233 (June 21, 2005): 65–67. http://dx.doi.org/10.1017/s0040298205220247.
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Kardamis, Kostas. "From Popular to Esoteric: Nikolaos Mantzaros and the Development of his Career as a Composer." Nineteenth-Century Music Review 8, no. 1 (June 27, 2011): 101–26. http://dx.doi.org/10.1017/s1479409811000085.
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Nikolaos Halikiopoulos Mantzaros (1795–1872) was a noble from Corfu and is better known today as the composer of the Greek national anthem. However, recent research has proved his importance as a teacher and as one of the most learned composers of his generation, renowned, in Italy and France as well as Greece.The aim of this article is to present Mantzaros’ developing relationship as dilettante composer to the emerging European nineteenth-century music and aesthetics, as featured through his existing works and writings. In his early works (1815–27) Mantzaros demonstrates a remarkable creative assimilation of late eighteenth- and early nineteenth-century operatic idioms, whereas his aristocratic social status allowed him an eclectic relationship with music in general. From the late 1820s, Mantzaros also began setting Greek poetry to music, in this way offering a viable solution to the demand for ‘national music’.From the mid-1830s onwards, Mantzaros’ already existing interest in Romantic idealism was broadened, affecting his work and thoughts. He stopped composing opera-related works and demonstrated a dual attitude towards music. On the one hand he continued composing popular music for the needs of his social circle, but on the other he developed an esoteric creative relationship with music. The latter led him as early as the 1840s to denounce the ‘extremities of Romanticism’ and to seek the musical expression of the sublime through the creative use of ‘the noble art of counterpoint’. This way he attempted to propose a re-evaluation of nineteenth-century trends through an eclectic neoclassicism, without neglecting the importance of subjective inspiration and genius.
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MOREVA, Evgeniya. "THE STYLE SIGNS IN MAURICE RAVEL’S PIANO CONCERTS: FROM IMPRESSIONISM AND NEOCLASSICISM TO ECLECTIC AND CINEMA MUSIC." Fine Art and Culture Studies, no. 3 (2022): 73–78. http://dx.doi.org/10.32782/facs-2022-3-10.
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WEBSTER, JAMES. "THE EIGHTEENTH CENTURY AS A MUSIC-HISTORICAL PERIOD?" Eighteenth Century Music 1, no. 1 (March 2004): 47–60. http://dx.doi.org/10.1017/s147857060400003x.
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Period concepts and periodizations are constructions, or readings, and hence always subject to reinterpretation. Many recent scholars have privileged institutional and reception history over style and compositional history, and periodized European music according to the ‘centuries’; but these constructions are no less partial or tendentious than older ones. Recent historiographical writings addressing these issues are evaluated.If we wish to construe the eighteenth century as a music-historical period, we must abandon the traditional notion that it was bifurcated in the middle. Not only did the musical Baroque not last beyond 1720 in most areas, but the years c1720–c1780 constituted a period in their own right, dominated by the international ‘system’ of Italian opera, Enlightenment ideals, neoclassicism, the galant and (after c1760) the cult of sensibility. We may call this the ‘central’ eighteenth century. Furthermore, this period can be clearly distinguished from preceding and following ones. The late Baroque (c1670–c1720) was marked by the rationalization of Italian opera, tragédie lyrique, the standardization of instrumental genres and the rise of ‘strong’ tonality. The period c1780–c1830 witnessed the rise of the ‘regulative work-concept’ (Goehr) and ‘pre-Romanticism’ (Dahlhaus), and the Europe-wide triumph of ‘Viennese modernism’, including the first autonomous instrumental music and a central role in the rise of the modern (post-revolutionary) world, symbolized by Haydn’s sublime in The Creation.A tripartite reading of a ‘long’ eighteenth-century in music history along these lines seems more nearly adequate than either baroque/classical or 1700–1800 as a single, undifferentiated period.
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TEREZAKIS, KATIE. "The Persistence of Allegory: Drama and Neoclassicism from Shakespeare to Wagnerby brown, jane k." Journal of Aesthetics and Art Criticism 66, no. 4 (September 2008): 413–16. http://dx.doi.org/10.1111/j.1540-6245.2008.00321_8.x.
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DUȚICĂ, Luminița, and Ema-Laura STANCIU. "Sound polychromes in the choral creation of the composer Gheorghe Duțică." BULLETIN OF THE TRANSYLVANIA UNIVERSITY OF BRASOV SERIES VIII - PERFORMING ARTS 13 (62), SI (January 20, 2021): 57–68. http://dx.doi.org/10.31926/but.pa.2020.13.62.3.6.
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Choral cultures begin with the old art of Notre Dame in Paris, continue with the Renaissance, Baroque, Classicism, Romanticism and end with the modern era, where the currents of Impressionism, Expressionism and Neoclassicism are often interwoven, united through the National Schools. An old tradition of Romanian musical culture continues, whose beginnings were marked by the choral, church or secular genre and whose modern foundations were finalized in the inter-war era of the 20th century. Gheorghe Duțică is one of the most representative masters of Romanian music. He has acquired a thorough knowledge of musicology, composition and pedagogy. It should be noted that each work bears the imprint of a strong originality, as well as a mastery worthy of appreciation. The charm of these works is very special, managing to describe with poetic and suggestive images.
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Sikora, Jerzy. "Późny Gałczyński i Iwaszkiewicz – podobieństwa i różnice." Colloquia Litteraria 30, no. 1-2 (August 23, 2023): 115–32. http://dx.doi.org/10.21697/cl.2021.30.1-2.7.
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This article shows the late Gałczyński and Iwaszkiewicz as poets in the last years of life. Gałczyński is represented by two poetic volumes: Kronika olsztyńska (1950) and Pieśni (1953), while Iwaszkiewicz – Mapa pogody (1977) and Muzyka wieczorem(1980). Both creators seek order and peace, and even some form of salvation, through references to the world of nature, to neoclassicism as a worldview and a way of artistic expression. They believe in the sense and power of poetry and art in general. They are connected by music, as well as the sacralization of everyday life. In Gałczyński, aesthetic expression is strongly exposed, and Iwaszkiewicz is also, but more clearly metaphysical in nature. The late poetic collections of both analyzed poets are thematically and formally coherent, at a high artistic level, although we find traces of socialist realism in Gałczyński.
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Lee, Seungsun. "A study on the characteristics of neoclassicism in Polish music under new political circumstances in 20 th Century." East European and Balkan Institute 41, no. 2 (May 31, 2017): 119–47. http://dx.doi.org/10.19170/eebs.2017.41.2.119.
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Grosa, Silvija, and Agnese Tambaka. "The ‘Ornament Grammar’ of Neoclassicism in Late Art Nouveau Interiors of Rīga." Letonica, no. 46 (August 2022): 138–57. http://dx.doi.org/10.35539/ltnc.2022.0046.s.g.a.t.138.157.
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Sprout, Leslie A. "The 1945 Stravinsky Debates: Nigg, Messiaen, and the Early Cold War in France." Journal of Musicology 26, no. 1 (January 1, 2009): 85–131. http://dx.doi.org/10.1525/jm.2009.26.1.85.
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Abstract In spring 1945, a small group of students, among them Serge Nigg and Pierre Boulez, protested during the first performances in liberated Paris of the neoclassical works Stravinsky had composed in America. Whereas Boulez's biographers have interpreted the student protests as a sign of Renéé Leibowitz's successful promotion of serialism in France, scholars of the Cold War have seen the 1945 concerts as a precursor to Stravinsky's participation in the 1952 L'ŒŒuvre du XXe sièècle, a festival in Paris indirectly funded by the CIA. These interpretations subsume the immediate postwar period in France within a synchronic view of the early Cold War era. But the 1945 protests against Stravinsky were not about the decisive embrace of a single musical style; rather, they were about the desire of young French composers to play an active role in shaping the postwar future of music in France. In 1945, Nigg——and not Boulez——represented the aesthetic opinions of a generation of French composers who had grown up during the German occupation of Paris and the political aspirations of those who, like Nigg, flocked to the French Communist Party at war's end. Nigg's participation in the 1945 Stravinsky debates gives us occasion to examine his earliest musical compositions and the political opinions he would express with increasing ideological fervor in the 1950s. Although in verbal pronouncements he supported socialist realism, Nigg's rare and complex use of a French folk tune in his 1954 Piano Concerto betrays his ambivalence about the Soviet demand for communist composers to reject "falsely cosmopolitan tendencies" in favor of their national cultural heritage. Having rejected in 1945 both Stravinsky's neoclassicism and French nationalism (the latter tainted by associations with Vichy during the occupation), Nigg had to choose in the early Cold War between his aesthetic and political loyalties.
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Liu, Ting. "Singing (vocal) as a component of ballet: the experience of interpreting the phenomenon in the context of artistic trends of the early 20th century." Culture of Ukraine, no. 75 (March 21, 2022): 93–102. http://dx.doi.org/10.31516/2410-5325.075.12.
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The article is devoted to one of the forms of creative synthesis of types of art, which is being actualized in the modern space-time of musical and stage compositions, including through its own historical and genetic code. Singing in ballet appears in the context of art of the early 20th century as a common aesthetic phenomenon. However, music criticism and academic science have not yet provided the explanation of its mechanisms (image-aesthetic, psychological, form-creating, communicative), its overriding tasks in the concepts of modern musical theatre. The experience of problem statement in the field of interpretology provides the relevance of the topic of the article and determines the novelty of the obtained results.
The purpose of the article is to reveal the preconditions and content of the functional unity of the art of singing and dance against the background of artistic trends of the early 20th century (starting with “Pulcinella” by I. Stravinsky).
The creative tandem of dance and singing has its roots in ancient Greek culture, on which the creators of the French tradition of ballets du court (J.-B. Llully focused. In the realm of «mixed genres» of baroque music, the «golden age» of homo musicus began. The latest history of singing in ballet begins with I. Stravinsky, his «Pulchinelli». The obtained results of the research of the problem “What is singing in ballet — a tribute to history or an invention of modern culture”? First, the presence of the “genetic code” of this phenomenon in the art of Western Europe of the Modern times; secondly, the regularity of the tendency to synthesize singing in the art of ballet as a manifestation of neoclassicism, closely related to the historicism of compositional thinking of I. Stravinsky.
The conclusions outline the preconditions and content of the functional unity of singing and dance in the format of artistic trends of the early 20th century: 1) the historical and cultural code of French art (singing — dramatic play — dance); 2) personal self-reflection of I. Stravinsky (his relations on the basis of creative cooperation in the early 20th century later formed a wide range of communication for artists: O. Rodin, A. Modigliani, K. Monet, P. Picasso, V. Kandinsky); 3) imitation of pre-classical, pre-baroque, and ancient folk traditions. In general, the revival of the function of singing in ballet of the 20th century took place on the basis of musical historicism and serves as a mental sign of the birth of neoclassicism.
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Taruskin, Richard. "Back to Whom? Neoclassicism as Ideology: Neoclassicism in Music: From the Genesis of the Concept through the Schoenberg/Stravinsky Polemic . Scott Messing. ; The Idea of Gebrauchsmusik: A Study of Musical Aesthetics in the Weimar Republic (1919-1933) with Particular Reference to the Works of Paul Hindemith . Stephen Hinton, Paul Hindemith. ; Colloquium Klassizitat, Klassizismus, Klassik in der Musik 1920-1950 (Wurzburg 1985) . Wolfgang Osthoff, Reinhard Wiesend." 19th-Century Music 16, no. 3 (April 1993): 286–302. http://dx.doi.org/10.1525/ncm.1993.16.3.02a00060.
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Mikolon, Anna. "Composition trends in polish vocal lyric. Musical language features in polish songs after the mid-20th century based on selected examples." Notes Muzyczny 2, no. 12 (December 13, 2019): 175–98. http://dx.doi.org/10.5604/01.3001.0013.7176.
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The subject for analysis were works for voice and piano by selected Polish composers of the 20th and 21st centuries, e.g. Grażyna Bacewicz, Tadeusz Baird, Henryk Czyż, Henryk Mikołaj Górecki, Henryk Hubertus Jabłoński, Wojciech Kilar, Zygmunt Krauze, Szymon Laks, Witold Lutosławski, Juliusz Mieczysław Łuciuk, Wojciech Łukaszewski, Paweł Łukaszewski, Maciej Małecki, Paweł Mykietyn, Edward Pałłasz, Konrad Pałubicki, Krzysztof Penderecki, Witold Rudziński, Marian Sawa, Kazimierz Serocki, Tadeusz Szeligowski and Romuald Twardowski. An important matter for the author was to determine whether there are common features for this creative genre. She also attempted to find an answer to the question if the trends from the second half of the 20th century were reflected in songs. The scope of analysis covered the repertoire the author knew from her performance practice from the standpoint of a pianist. To the general characteristics of selected songs she added a review of famous trends, techniques and styles of composition, such as impressionism, neoromanticism, expressionism, dodecaphony, serialism, punctualism, minimalism, sonorism, spectralism, neoclassicism, vitalism, postmodernism, aleatoricism, bruitism, microtonality, electronic music, musique concrète, stochastic music, references to previous periods, to folklore and to popular music. She compared musical notation of the analysed works. She also confronted forms of songs with contemporary composition techniques. Interesting was the approach of composers to chamber relations in a duo and the way they made texts musical. Most composers distanced themselves from the avant-garde in works for voice and piano which had a specific poetic text because of the clarity of narration. Matching composers unequivocally to just one trend turned out impossible. Various techniques and phenomena may co-exist in one piece and in the same way one creator may search for different means of expression.
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McKay, Nicholas P. "Maureen A. Carr, After the Rite: Stravinsky's Path to Neoclassicism (1914-1925) (Oxford and New York: Oxford University Press, 2014). xxiv + 328 pp. $58/£37.49. ISBN 978-0-19-974293-6 (hb)." Music Analysis 35, no. 1 (January 20, 2016): 119–26. http://dx.doi.org/10.1111/musa.12065.
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Churikov, V. V. "Concerto for saxophone and string orchestra by P.-M. Dubois: guidelines for performance." Problems of Interaction Between Arts, Pedagogy and the Theory and Practice of Education 54, no. 54 (December 10, 2019): 107–22. http://dx.doi.org/10.34064/khnum1-54.07.
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Statement of the problem. Creativity for saxophone by the French composer Pierre-Max Dubois (1930-1995) reflects in its sound palette many style tendencies of music art of the twentieth century. A student of D. Milhaud, he inherited from his teacher the desire for vivid character and imagery of music, which were achieved by various artistic possibilities of modern musical styles and trends. For the saxophone, he wrote such compositions as Characteristic pieces in the form of a suite, Quartet, Divertissement, Sonata and Concerto for saxophone and string orchestra which is quite relevant for the repertoire of the modern saxophonist. Taking into account specific features of the author’s style of P. Dubois, the performer faces the problem of mastering a number of technical and artistic expressive techniques aimed at revealing the figurative content of the piece. For a contemporary performer, the awareness of style components of P. Dubois’ music, which make up the logic of the performance interpretation, is of particular importance. These are the main aspects of work at this composition in the class of saxophone. Analysis of recent publications on the topic. Saxophone performance is considered in many publications, including those written by the author of this paper. However, there are very few works related to the study of P.-M. Dubois’ creative work, and all of them are bibliographic or encyclopedic in nature. Therefore, the analysis of compositions by P.-M. Dubois seems relevant. The purpose of the study is to develop methodology guidelines on search for performance interpretation of Concerto for Saxophone and String Orchestra by P. Dubois. Presentation of the main research material. The Concerto for Saxophone and String Orchestra by P. Dubois was written in 1956 and was a striking embodiment of the instrumental style of the French composer. Adhering generally to traditional ideas about instrumental genres, P. Dubois greatly expands the sound palette of his works and develops the expressive capabilities of the saxophone. As a student of the famous and one of the most extravagant representatives of the French "Group of Six" – D. Milhaud, P. Dubois in many ways inherits the principle of distinctness of musical language and bright, expressive musical and artistic imagery. P. Dubois’ concerto is a traditional three-part cycle, built on the principle of contrasting extreme fast and medium slow parts, which in the overall contexture of the composition are very different in their imaginative content and musical language. Highlighting the stylistic origins of music of the Concerto, the composer is obviously focused on artistic principles of such musical directions as neoclassicism, impressionism-symbolism and expressionism. Conclusions of the study. From the viewpoint of performance, works for saxophone by P. Dubois have undoubted merits. They are instrumental in nature, written in the light of instrumental specificity, though not without technical and imaginary difficulties. Summarizing the analysis of the Concerto for the saxophone by P. Dubois, it can be argued that this piece clearly fits into the artistic context of the development of French music in the second half of the twentieth century, since it reflects the process of synthesizing various style complexes in the original author’s concept. 1. Concerto for Saxophone and String Orchestra by P. Dubois is an original interpretation of the concerto genre in the context of French music of the second half of the twentieth century. Preserving national traditions of instrumental thinking – programmability, genre, beauty of the timbre palette – P. Dubois enriches the musical language of his work significantly and freely interprets the compositional structure of the concerto (the ratio of form sections, their scales, cadence at the very beginning of the sonata allegro, "removed" thematic contrast and a departure from conflict dramaturgy). On the whole, we can speak of a shift from the sonata form and priorities of the variative development of the musical thematism. 2. In identifying the stylistic origins of the Concert’s music, the composer’s focus on artistic principles of such musical directions as neoclassicism, impressionism-symbolism and expressionism are evident. Moreover, each of these style complexes is as if personified in a specific author’s "manner", causing reminiscence with the music of D. Shostakovich, S. Rachmaninov, P. Hindemith, M. Ravel. Such a “multicomponibility” of the Concerto style introduces the multifaceted nature of the musical language of the piece and assigns the performer the task of differentiating expressive means – mainly the timbre palette and articulation technique. The prospect of further study of the topic is related to the performance analysis of other works by P. Dubois for saxophone, comparison of interpretations made by contemporary prominent artists.
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Gąsiorowska, Małgorzata. "Grażyna Bacewicz – The Polish Sappho." Musicology Today 16, no. 1 (December 31, 2019): 65–102. http://dx.doi.org/10.2478/muso-2019-0003.
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Abstract The paper is an attempt at a synthetic presentation of the Polish composer Grażyna Bacewicz’s (1909–1969) musical output and artistic career, presented against the background of events in her personal life, and of major events in Polish and European history in the first seven decades of the 20th century. Bacewicz was called ‘the Polish Sappho’ already in the years between World Wars I and II, when there were very few women-composers capable of creating works comparable to the most eminent achievements of male composers. Her path to success in composition and as a concert soloist leads from lessons with her father, the Lithuanian Vincas Bacevičius, to studies at the Łódź and Warsaw Conservatories (violin with Józef Jarzębski, composition with Kazimierz Sikorski), and later with Nadia Boulanger at the École Normale de la Musique, as well as violin lessons with André Tourret. Her oeuvre has for many years been linked with neoclassicism, and folkloric inspirations are evident in many of her works. Her crowning achievement in the neoclassical style is the Concerto for String Orchestra of 1948, while influences from folklore can distinctly be heard in many concert pieces and small forms. The breakthrough came around 1958, under the influence of avant-garde trends present in West European music, which came to be adapted in Poland thanks to the political transformations and the rejection of socialist realism. In such pieces as Music for Strings, Trumpets and Percussion of 1958, Bacewicz transforms her previously fundamental musical components (melody, rhythm, harmony) into a qualitatively new type of sound structures, mainly focused on the coloristic aspects. Grażyna Bacewicz also applied the twelve-note technique, albeit to a limited extent, as in String Quartet No. 6 (1960). Her last work was the unfinished ballet Desire to a libretto by Mieczysław Bibrowski after Pablo Picasso’s play Le désir attrapé par la queue.
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Векслер, Ю. С. "Alban Berg’s Kammerkonzert: between a Game, a Pamphlet and an Offering." Журнал Общества теории музыки, no. 3(35) (January 28, 2022): 8–19. http://dx.doi.org/10.26176/otmroo.2021.35.3.002.
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Камерный концерт Альбана Берга, написанный к 50-летию Арнольда Шёнберга и 20-летию Новой венской школы, рассматривается в контексте культурной ситуации 1920‑х годов, которая определяется как внешними, так и внутренними факторами: новая фаза взаимоотношений Берга с учителем, утверждение неоклассицизма и антиромантических тенденций в европейской музыке, необходимость освоения разработанного Шёнбергом метода композиции при помощи двенадцати тонов. Соединяя в себе модусы приношения, памфлета и игры, Концерт вписывается в актуальную культурную ситуацию 1920-х — и в то же время полемизирует с ней. Будучи важнейшей вехой в творчестве Берга после «Воццека», Концерт во многом определяет композиторскую эволюцию его автора в последующие годы. Alban Berg’s Kammerkonzert, composed in honor of Arnold Schoenberg’s and the New Viennese School’s 50th and 20thanniversaries respectively, is viewed in the context of the cultural situation of the 1920s. The latter is determined by both external and internal factors, such as: the new phase of Berg’s relationship with his teacher, the assertion of neoclassicism and anti-Romanticism in the European music, as well as the need to learn Schoenberg’s method of composition with twelve tones. Combining the modes of an offering, a pamphlet and a game, the Concerto fits into the cultural situation topical for the 1920s and, at the same time, argues with it. The most important milestone in Berg’s oeuvre after Wozzeck, the Concerto largely determines the composer’s evolution during subsequent years.
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Sechin, Alexander G. "The Morning of a Lady of the Manor as a Programme Work of Alexey Venetsianov. On the Issue of the Academic Method in the Artist’s Theory and Practices." Vestnik of Saint Petersburg University. Arts 11, no. 4 (2021): 649–73. http://dx.doi.org/10.21638/spbu15.2021.405.
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The Morning of a Lady of the Manor (1823) by Alexey Venetsianov embodies a veiled polemic of the artist with representatives of the academic school of painting concerning the academic method. The work demonstrates not only the painter’s credo, but also his possible steps on adjusting the educational system of the Imperial Academy of Arts. He occupied an intermediate position between the supporters of mindless copying of nature and the banal poses of classical statues. Here, he tried to prove the fruitfulness of the true academic method of creating a composition based on the characters (types) of “graceful nature”, the storehouse of which was the art of his famous predecessors. The work contains references to notable images of the indisputable authorities of academic classicism: Raphael Santi and Anton Raphael Mengs. The ancient art is also presented here both by a statuette of the Crouching Venus and its pictorial recreation: a peasant woman in the same attitude. The images which had served as the basis for Venetsianov’s visual metaphors were well-known to the professors of the Academy because they were literally right before their eyes — in the Hermitage. The picture by Venetsianov, on the one hand, demonstrates his commitment to academic values, first of all to сlassical art that had inspired both Raphaels as well as Winckelmann, an outstanding theorist of neoclassicism. Behind Venetsianov’s figures, we can also see the images of those “three Greek Venuses”, about which he later wrote in his theoretical notes Something about the perspective: Aphrodite Medici, Venus of Taurida (which in fact hides the type of Venus of Milo) and the Crouching Venus. On the other hand, the amazing skill of animating ancient statues by assimilating them into painting à la Natura was meant to attest to the real truth of his artistic method.
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Sechin, Alexander G. "The Sources and Meaning of the Term Decency in the Writings of Prince Dmitry Golitsyn on Fine Arts." Vestnik of Saint Petersburg University. Arts 12, no. 4 (2022): 682–707. http://dx.doi.org/10.21638/spbu15.2022.407.
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The author focuses on one of the most important terms of normative aesthetics and art, decency, which occupies a prominent place in the writings of Prince Dmitry Golitsyn (1734–1803), devoted to the issues of architecture and fine arts. A detailed study of the origins of decency and the meaning of this concept leads to the identification of three stages in its development, consistently considered with the involvement of both source texts and the works of modern scholars. The first stage was the flourishing of classical ancient Greek art, which corresponds to the concept of τὸ πρέπον, formed in the consciousness and rhetorical culture of Athens. In relation to the fine arts, its importance cannot be overestimated, since decency was not conceived without an adequate and eye-catching external expression of typical images, including their social status and ethical content. Under its influence, a system of canons of European art was born in ancient Greece. The second stage is associated with the Renaissance, when the idea of convenevolezza arises. It was focused on the Classical Antiquity and the appropriate iconographic tradition and therefore had a pronounced retrospective character. Finally, the classicism of the Enlightenment era, or neoclassicism, the time of Golitsyn’s life and work, picks up the baton of the norm in art and the deviations from it made by nature itself. Golitsyn’s interpretation of decency in his treatises and its correct understanding by art historians are important, since these works formed the basis of the Russian doctrine of normative, primarily academic art. Decency in the understanding of the ancient Greeks, Italians of the Renaissance and enlighteners of the 18th century did not completely dissolve in the works of the great and ordinary masters of those distant times. It is invariably revived when it comes to the visualization of traditions, proprieties and various norms within artistic culture, about the artist’s service to the model, the canon.
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Bertash, Alexander V. "A. Poleshchuk: Creative Biography of the Russian-Estonian Architect and a Retrospective Direction in Russian Church Architecture of the Early 20th Century." Vestnik of Saint Petersburg University. Arts 12, no. 4 (2022): 647–65. http://dx.doi.org/10.21638/spbu15.2022.405.
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This article is devoted to the creative biography of the largest Russian-Estonian architect at the turn of the 19th–20th centuries A. Poleshchuk and retrospectivism in Russian church architecture at the beginning of the twentieth century, which was his main creative method. The works and biography of the great master are still poorly studied, scientific publications are practically not devoted to him. At the same time, being a pupil of the St Petersburg Academy of Arts, the architect was awarded the title of architecture academic, the position of professor, proved himself in the capital as the author of such monumental structures as the Geological Committee and the Church of St Isidor with the house of the St Petersburg Orthodox Estonian brotherhood. He owns the project of the most monumental Orthodox church in the Baltics of the twentieth century — the Assumption Cathedral of the Pyukhtitsa Monastery, where he worked from his student years under the guidance of his teacher prof. M. Preobrazhensky. A native of Estonia and an Estonian himself on the maternal side, the architect made an invaluable contribution to the formation of a professional architectural school in the country. He was the chairman of the Estland Engineering Society and the Estland Technical Society in Petrograd, then was actively involved in teaching in Tallinn as professor of architecture at Tallinn Polytechnic College and chief architect and educational adviser to the Construction Board. A. Poleshchuk is known as an architectural theorist, a specialist in the theory of vaults, the author of the fundamental courses “Lectures on the art of building” in 10 volumes, and a two-volume guide to bridge construction. The article examines in detail the main milestones in the creative path of A. Poleshchuk in the context of the history of architecture at the beginning of the 20th century, mainly, church retrospectivism. The features of his work, diverse in typology and stylistics (Russian style, neoclassicism, neo-Renaissance, neo-baroque), are analyzed. In conclusion, a stylistic classification of the retrospective directions of church architecture of the late 19th — early 20th centuries with examples of relevant monuments is proposed. The article is based both on little-known published materials and, mainly, on newly discovered archival documents from the depositories of St Petersburg, Tartu, Tallinn.
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Eremenko, Galina A. "Passeism in the Musical Culture of France." Observatory of Culture 16, no. 2 (July 5, 2019): 171–82. http://dx.doi.org/10.25281/2072-3156-2019-16-2-171-182.
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The specialists note and highly appreciate the openness to creative dialogue with different European and regional cultures in their works about the artistic history of France. In the introductory section, the article is focused on the importance of the opposite trend, developed in the 19th — early 20th century in all spheres of art. The purpose of the new movement is “national revival”, interest in the origins of the great heritage of the French masters of past epochs. The author concentrates on the peculiarities of interaction between leading composers, musicians-performers and teachers with the traditions of music professionalism of the French composer school. Furthermore, she explains the main reason of “back to the past” addiction by desire to preserve the unique distinction of artistic thinking in the terms of intensive cultural influences in Italy, Germany and Russia. The article provides the facts of creative activity of the leaders of “national renewal”. There are presented some journalistic statements of the leading French composers to confirm their unanimous recognition of the actual value of national classics to the future of French culture. There is explicated the panorama of creative experiments (C. Franck, C. Saint-Saëns, E. Satie, impressionists and composers of the “young generation”) on reconstruction of national traditions of distant epochs. The coverage of events and display of artistic phenomena of musical and cultural life of France allowed the author to form a context to consider the problem of aesthetic and stylistic character: new understanding of the phenomenon of “artistic tradition” and “dialogue with tradition” in the epoch of modernism. The comparison of different forms of “dialogue with the past” in the Russian culture of the beginning of the 20th century and in creative works of the leader of European retrospectivisme I.F. Stravinsky gave grounds to use the concept of “passeism” to characterize the special French type of inheritance of the “lessons” of the predecessors. Introducing the concept of “passeism” in contrast to the accepted in Russian musicology “musical neoclassicism” and giving reasons of the effectiveness of its application, the author seeks to identify the idea of preserving soil foundations of tradition as a way of national self-identity (prosody, rhetoric, form) pertaining to the French composer school.
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Sediuk, I. O. "The originality of neoclassic principles reflection in the Sonata for two pianos by Paul Hindemith." Problems of Interaction Between Arts, Pedagogy and the Theory and Practice of Education 56, no. 56 (July 10, 2020): 154–68. http://dx.doi.org/10.34064/khnum1-56.10.
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Background. The neoclassicism of the first decades of the 20th century turned to be a kind of opposition to atonalism, which captured many radical composers. The supposed “bilingualism” of neoclassicism opened wide perspectives for individual concepts realization, broadening the boundaries of new knowledge of the Baroque and early classicism. Instrumental sonata, including the Sonata for Two Pianos naturally entered the neoclassical trend mainstream in a number of others, non-symphonic classical and romantic genres, compensating for the rejection of effective dramaturgy by enhancing the contrast between the cycle’s parts, thus tending to Baroque cyclic compositions. For Paul Hindemith, whose name is always associated with this art movement, “communication” with musical past was not an instant hobby but something that determined the focus of his creative thought. Objectives. The article’s purpose is to reveal the peculiarity of neoclassic principles embodiment in the Sonata for Two Pianos by P. Hindemith, to consider its composition, semantic and structural units. Methods. The study’s methodology is based on historicism principle, which involves the study of artistic phenomena being connected with the established musical art experience, and a comprehensive approach that allows involving of different methods of music analysis. Results. Sonata for Two Pianos (1942) consists of five movements; each one has its name. P. Hindemith’s individual approach to the sonata genre is usually evaluated in terms of the artist’s refusal of traditional composition, changes in sonata form, which often includes dramatic function changing. This is due to the desire to make equal all the forms involved in the cycle, in particular the most important polyphonic ones. The movements’ names “The Bells”, “Allegro”, “Canon”, “Recitative”, “Fugue” reveal the suite’s features. “The Bells” opening the cycle show a wide range of musical associations: from French harpsichordists gravitating to sound expression to representatives of different national cultures of the 20th century. The textured thematic drawing of the part reveals another modus of play with tradition expressing itself in improvisational principle domination and Baroque fantasy revival. The Old English verse text preceding “Recitative” reminds of 16–17th century program compositions and shows connection with opera art. “Recitative” combines concise musical phrases typical for Baroque culture vocal genres and typical rhythm formulas that embody the freedom of language intonation and bring in improvisation and allusion on basso continuo. The reference to Baroque era polyphony is evidenced by “Canon” and “Fugue”. In the “Canon”, polyphonic interaction is reached by two piano parties and not by individual voices of the four-voice ensemble texture. The slow tempo Lento, the static movement of musical thought, where “step” pulsation is felt in 4/8 metrics, unusual for classic and romantic culture, the predominance of quiet sound implies tragic pathetic element in “Recitative”. These two parts, “Canon” and “Recitative”, constitute a complementary semantic pair as play modes of tragic imagery embodiment through Baroque era high style, its objective and subjective beginnings. Actually, sonata genre is represented only by the second part “Allegro” with its fast tempo, clarity of form, volitional character of the main theme, scherzo grace of the subsidiary theme, large coda. The composer maintains contrast method choosing his complex of expressive means for each exposition sections. The Sonata is finished by a grand three-theme fugue with metro-rhythmic design associated with the corresponding polyphonic music structures, and more, the initial fifth step corresponds to J. S. Bach’s “Fugue Art”. The first theme’s imperative character establishes the dramatic imagery as fundamental in Sonata’s artistic concept. Its intonational content is characterized by fourth and fifth interval structures, some of them are creating the frame of the whole cycle. The second theme is more melodic and contrasting. The bass register of the third theme in rhythmic augmentation, the wave-like pattern of its melodic line covering the range of the diminished octave, is perceived as embodying of the modern thinking tension, the “echo” of Baroque era aesthetic ideas. The artistic idea of the Sonata for Two Pianos by P. Hindemith is built on drama concentration, overcoming suite separation of the parts and reflecting the full life realities and the inviolability of Universe laws. Conclusions. Sonata for Two Pianos by P. Hindemith returns to its origins thanks to the 20th century artists’ interest to the Baroque culture, demonstrating irregular genre boundaries and the ability to maintain high polyphony means, unregulated cycle and synthesis of several compositional principles within one work. The neoclassical principles did not deprive the Sonata of being presented in that time’s social and spiritual events, and allowed it to generalize modern world conflicts with the help of established semantic and compositional units. Thus, P. Hindemith’s Sonata for Two Pianos preserves its own approach to musical experience and possibilities of ensemble technique distinguished in almost full absence of performing competition idea, dialogism in its traditional reflection while retaining the parties’ equality.
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Reutter, Hans Peter. "Gretchen G. Horlacher, Building Blocks: Repetition and Continuity in the Music of Stravinsky, New York: Oxford University Press 2011 / Maureen A. Carr, After the Rite: Stravinsky’s Path to Neoclassicism (1914–25), New York: Oxford University Press 2014." Zeitschrift der Gesellschaft für Musiktheorie [Journal of the German-Speaking Society of Music Theory] 12, no. 2 (2015): 265–70. http://dx.doi.org/10.31751/819.
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Serhiі, Dikarev. "Genre and style specifics of Sonata for Double Bass and Piano by Paul Hindemith." Aspects of Historical Musicology 24, no. 24 (October 13, 2021): 127–47. http://dx.doi.org/10.34064/khnum2-24.07.
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Statement of the problem. The works of Paul Hindemith, one of the most outstanding composers of the twentieth century, is distinguished by its universality. P. Hindemith is known as the author of a large number of sonatas for various instruments, among which is Sonata for Double Bass and Piano. The genre and style specificity of P. Hindemith’s chamber sonatas cannot be considered in isolation from the peculiarities of the instruments chosen by the composer, the sound image of which contributed to the formation of certain specific genre features. Sonata for Double Bass and Piano, which became the culmination of the development of double bass music in the composer’s work, can be considered indicative in this respect. Analysis of recent research and publications. There is a great deal of research works devoted to P. Hindemit’s compositions, particularly chamber sonatas, as well as to the peculiarities of his style. One of the most fundamental works is the monograph by T. Levaya and O. Leontieva (1974), which deals with the works of the composer. Among other researchers who turned to the work of Hindemith, we should mention B. Asafev (1975), V. Polyakov (1987), T. Morgunova (2000), V. Batanov (2016). Despite the fact that the stylistic and genre principles of P. Hindemith’s work are outlined in detail in the works of domestic musicologists, most researchers have overlooked the Sonata for Double Bass and Piano by P. Hindemith, which certainly deserves a detailed analytical understanding both in the context of the genre and in terms of the development of double bass performance. Main objective of the study. Today, Sonata for Double Bass and Piano by Paul Hindemith, the performance of which requires significant technical and artistic skill from double bass players, occupies an important place in the double bass repertoire, which is why this article is relevant. The purpose of the article is to determine the genre and style specifics of Sonata for Double Bass and Piano by P. Hindemith in order to further understand the development of solo and orchestral double bass means of expression and rapidly increase the repertoire for double bass in modern art. The scientific novelty of the article lies in the insufficient study of P.Hindemith’s double bass work in the context of Ukrainian double bass school. As a result of the structural-compositional and genre analysis it was possible to conclude about the uniqueness of Sonata for Double Bass and Piano by P. Hindemith as a vivid example of the composer’s search for non-standard means of expression, which lies in choosing the timbre of the solo instrument and the specifics of formative factors. The research methodology includes the following scientific methods: ● historiographic approach (in the aspect of clarifying the data on the double bass compositions by P. Hindemith); ● stylistic approach (in connection with the study of the composer’s work); ● genre approach (which is necessary for referring to certain genres of P. Hindemith’s work); ек ● structural and functional approach (which is used in analytical descriptions); ● comparative, which is applied in connection with the study of different editions of Sonata for Double Bass and Piano by P. Hindemith. Results. In the course of the study, a detailed structural and compositional analysis of P. Hindemith’s Sonata for Double Bass and Piano was carried out, as well as a comparative analysis of two editions of this sonata. The filling of the classical sonata form with modern musical language, the appeal to the means of polyphonic music, the introduction of the genre features of the instrumental concerto, the traditional German song Lied and operatic intonations make this work a vivid example of neoclassicism in the repertoire of double bass players around the world. The varied palette of lines and the flexibility of the imaginative sphere of the Sonata generalize the long-term composer’s search for individual means of expression in contrabass music. Conclusions. The result of the evolutionary path traversed by the double bass from a modest instrument of a symphony orchestra to a brilliant solo instrument was Sonata for Double Bass and Piano – a vivid example of P. Hindemith’s chamber work, which embodied the features of the composer’s mature period. Sonata for Double Bass and Piano by P. Hindemith poses difficult technical and artistic tasks for the performers, the solution of which must be associated not only with the use of all the skills and abilities of the musician, but also with a deep understanding of the internal structure and specifics of the compositional and dramatic solution of the author’s intention.
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Malinowski, Wiesław Mateusz. "Fryderyk Chopin w literaturze francuskiej: od figury romantycznej do ikony popkultury." Poznańskie Studia Polonistyczne. Seria Literacka, no. 41 (December 29, 2021): 199–226. http://dx.doi.org/10.14746/pspsl.2021.41.11.
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The reception of Chopin and his music in French literature follows the rhythm of the changes in the European intellectual and aesthetic climates. George Sand recorded in her memoirs the image of a romantic genius par excellence, a dark, torn and complicated soul. The decadent and symbolist poetry, best exemplified by Maurice Rollinat, presents a portrait ofa blood-spitting neurasthenic, a soulmate of the poet. Marcel Proust paints the image of an elegant dandy and exquisite artist, while the first part of the twentieth century is dominated by the neoromantic vision of Chopin as a great Polish patriot; this theme is perfectly illustrated by the poems of Anna de Noailles and Edmond Rostand. André Gide presents a radicallynew view of Chopin’s music, seeing the Polish composer as a neoclassicist pianist. Contemporary literature and art go on to dress Chopin in jeans, eagerly turning him into a mass culture hero.
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Bosnić, Amra. "Treatment of Text in Vocal Works by Bosnian and Herzegovinian Composers." English version, no. 10 (October 22, 2018): 38–53. http://dx.doi.org/10.51515/issn.2744-1261.2018.10.38.
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The paper discusses the half-century of composition in Bosnia and Herzegovina throughout the prism of musical setting to text phenomenon in vocal forms. In its focus are the solo song Pjesma u zoru by Milan Prebanda, Otvori u noć vrata by Vlado Milošević, Sappho by Nada Ludvig Pečar and The impact of the analogue synthesizer by Dino Rešidbegović. Analysis of the relationship between text and music in these works points out to the compositionaltechnical manner characteristic for these composers, generally marked by: Milošević consistently holds on to a text quantitative and qualitative characteristics, Prebanda raises melody above all the expressive characteristics, Ludvig Pečar holds to neoclassicist formal patterns, while Rešidbegović partly disposes the authority of vocal expressiveness to an interpretant.
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Zharkova, Valeriya. "Music by Claude Debussy and Maurice Ravel: a Modern View of the Problem of Style Identification." Scientific herald of Tchaikovsky National Music Academy of Ukraine, no. 130 (March 18, 2021): 24–51. http://dx.doi.org/10.31318/2522-4190.2021.130.231181.
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The relevance of the article is determined by the appeal to the debatable issues of stylistic differentiation of the works by Claude Debussy and Maurice Ravel as the French musical culture leading representatives of the late 19th and the first third of the 20th centuries. The research reflections about the connections betwen Debussy and Ravel on the principle “for / against” have not subsided for more than a hundred years. This testifies to the special urgency of this problem and the need to search for modern approaches to understanding the artistic identity of two brilliant contemporaries.Scientific novelty. For the first time, the multidirectionality of the composing strategies by Debussy and Ravel is indicated through the the concept of style in its interdisciplinary philosophicalcategorical status and the explanationof its functions of identification and communication in the general cultural understanding (O. Ustyugova). For the first time the difference between the cultural phenomena processes integration in the era of modernism into the new artistic wholes, with unique properties, which is appropriate to define as “Debussy’s style” and “Ravel’s style”, is revealed.The purpose of the article is to reveal the multidirectionality of the composing strategies of Debussy and Ravel through an appeal to the main stylistic functions of identification and communication in general cultural understanding (O. Ustyugova); to designate the non-coincidence of channels of integration of cultural phenomena in the era of modernism into new artistic wholes, which have unique properties such as “Debussy’s style” and “Ravel’s style”.The research methodology includes the use of historical, stylistic, comparative methods.Main results and conclusions. The existing musicological literature emphasizes the influence of romanticism, post-romanticism, impressionism, symbolism, neoclassicism, Art Nouveau, moderne style on the formation of the individual style of Debussy and Ravel. Each of these directions had a certain reflection in the work of composers. However, let us try to highlight in the conceptual space of the many-sided “isms” of the cultural context of the era of modernism the hidden sources of the deployment of the creative intentions of the both brilliant contemporaries. We will choose the fundamental work of E. Ustyugova “Style and Culture: Experience of Building a General Theory of Style” (2003) as a methodological basis for this. E. Ustyugova proposes to go beyond the understanding style as a “migratory structure” (term by J. Rebane) and a convenient “classification tool” (J. Burnham) in structural and typological studies of art and move on to a comprehensive study of the essence of this phenomenon. For this, according to the researcher, it is necessary to carry out two analytical procedures. The first is based on the awareness of the experience of the mismatch between the object and the subject. The second involves considering the style in the aspect of intersubjective communication.With this view on the problem of identifying the patterns of formation and development of cultural phenomena, it is not the nominative parameters and the “herbarization” of genrelinguistic units that come to the fore, but the comprehension of the multilevel subject-object relations that formed these phenomena; “live reproduction” of the matrix of the world perception as channels of communication between the “I” and everything that appears as “not-I”.The creative paths of Debussy and Ravel represent diferent creative strategies. The “pure meaning”, unspeakable by words and free from all earthly, to which Debussy aspired, creates parallels with the texts of symbolist poets and destroy the boundaries between “I” and “not-I”.
In the fundamental monographs of French researchers dedicated to the composer an idea has long been entrenched: the composer’s creative laboratory was poetry, and Debussy’s address to the poetic word throughout all his creative decades constantly expanding the semantic horizons of his “artistic realities”.Debussy’s spiritual intentions merged into a single sound-glow in the indivisible space of being. The word in all its dimensions (from literal to metaphysical) indicated the stages of the process of dissolving the personal “I” and going beyond (au-délà) the established forms of artistic expression. Therefore, various kinds of the names (or “afterwords”, as in the Preludes), epigraphs, numerous super-detailed directions remained an integral part of an integral sound structure. His musical language, destroying the connections in time between the past and the future (rejection of the system of functional gravities that should be “stretched” in musical memory), created a certain correspondence (“here and now”) with the phenomenon of being.Hence the following characteristics of the composer’s musical works: 1) the impeccable construction of the whole, which is “thought out to the smallest detail” (E. Denisov), subtle multilevel “correspondences” and symmetries; 2) total thematization of texture (K. Zenkin); 3) selfsufficient semantic expressiveness of the “pure sound forms” (K. Zenkin), which became the embodiment of “an agonizing thirst for undeniably pure” (S. Velikovsky).These properties of Debussy’s style open up the possibility to get into the spiritual dimensions filled with pure beauty, which so attracted the followers of Baudelaire. Using the typology of teh subject-object relations proposed by E. Ustyugova, Debussy’s style can be attributed throughout the paradigm of hidden subjectivity. Debussy was well aware of his “non-romantic” position.The artistic aspirations of Maurice Ravel more clearly resonate with the creative attitudes of Art Nouveau artists, who were looking for new forms of plastic expressiveness mainly in spatial forms of art. It seems that it is with this direction that a special feeling of the plasticity of the musical material and the entire musical composition as a unique phenomenon is associated, which determines the composer’s creative credo.The concept of “plasticity” indicates such a connection between coordinated phenomena, which appears through the reincarnation (transformation) of a certain material substance, when we keep in memory its output characteristics. Ballet works and the reliance on dance genres (and more broadly, various types of plasticity of gesture and movement) reveal the hidden basis of the composer’s thinking. This approach allows one to re-evaluate Ravel’s connections with the ancient heritage (it is symptomatic that the composer called his first “adult” work, devoted to the press, “Antique Minuet”) and to understand the meanings of constant antique reminiscences with which he filled his life.Like a real dandy who lets the vibrations of the world pass through himself, Ravel is sensitive to them and “cuts off” random, “ugly”, “unnecessary” ones. Hence — the special beauty of the artistic structures created by the composer. They are built not in a “filtered” ideal-beautiful dimension, but in the space of shimmering opposites (the corporeal — free from the corporeal, the familiar — the unknown). Ravel’s inherent tendency towards the graphic relief of the melodic line creates parallels with the “famous lines of Art Nouveau” (Fahr-Becker Gabriele) and is especially distinct, characterizes the composer’s later works.The non-everyday register of semantic reverberations of what is happening in the process of metamorphosis in the composer’s music (his plastic questioning about the existential nature of the source material) demanded a special listener’s responsiveness. Mistifications, hiding behind a mask, playing with the listener are Ravel’s usual communication strategies. Therefore, according to the typology of the subject-object relations proposed by E. Ustyugova, we can speak here of the paradigm of “open subjectivity”, which is characterized by the direct orientation of the subject towards himself. Hence — the principle of auto-citation characteristic of Ravel. The quintessence of its use are the composer’s later works — the opera Child and Magic, as well as the Piano Concerto in G major — the Dandy summa summarum of the composer’s previous career.The game of “correspondences” (Baudelaire) was manifested by composers in various ways and conditioned various channels of communication. Debussy makes the semantics of sound education a semantic unit, appeals to the listener with the expressiveness of the structure itself. Therefore he always emphasizes, appeals to the elite listener. Ravel, on the other hand, hides behind masks and theatrical illusions. He needs a listener who has a culture of distance (who owns wide meaning contextual fields). The contextual layers associated with musical texts express that “degree of distance” from the object of attention, which the composer himself chooses and whose parameters are constantly changing. Therefore, Ravel never turns twice in the genre, style or stylistic model he has already used.So, if the works by Debussy can be perceived “from scratch” because of their structural completeness and semantic tightness, then the works by Ravel require the listener to know the musical context and readiness to lay it out “fold by fold” (J. Deleuze) in new semantic projections.At the turn of the 19th and 20th centuries, French culture was looking for a means of creating a “state of resonance” (G. Bachelard) as an extraordinary impression, “awakening”, without which a person cannot take place. Debussy and Ravel moved in this direction. Therefore, only through the identification of all the “correspondences” of the era of a total change of creative guidelines and a departure from unambiguous stylistic “avatars” can one feel its essential discoveries. The study of the lines of intersection of the Debussy music and the Ravel music with various artistic phenomena of the past and the present illuminates certain reflections of the “style of the era”. However understanding the deep patterns of the creative manner of the two contemporaries requires differentiating the definitions of “Debussy’s style” and “Ravel’s style” and their further studying.
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Buchok, L. V. "Pianoforte compositions “Etude” by D. Zador and “Impromptu” by I. Marton in the context of the problem of analysis and interpretation of the creative idea." Aspects of Historical Musicology 13, no. 13 (September 15, 2018): 113–26. http://dx.doi.org/10.34064/khnum2-13.09.
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Background. In the time of Ukraine’s state independence, the interest of scholars in reproduction of a coherent historically formed image of regional cultures arose. The thing is, that almost throughout the twentieth century the priority issue was that the term «international» was considered as «assimilated». However, in the second half of the 20th century signifi cant processes took place in Transcarpathia, which manifested the formation of a professional Transcarpathian composer’s school – a movement led by Dezyderiy Zador and picked up by other composers, in particular Ishtvan Marton. In particular, the interest of Transcarpathian composers in piano compositions is of considerable interest as one of the segments of the European professional tradition: on the one hand, it is a testimony to the higher level of professional training and the practice of possession of classical experience; on the other hand, a geographically designated vector of stylistic modelling in the context of the intonational fund and the semantic fi eld of the European academic piano music in its inextricable connection with historically contemporary European-style stylistic phenomena. In its turn, the style shaping initiatives of the Transcarpathian composers of the second half of the 20th century caused signifi cant changes in their theoretical understanding – in accordance with the change of the mental paradigm of artistic creativity from the classical to the post-classical, when the method of tracing “style features” (the initial model of the formation of the method of style analysis) can no longer clarify the essence of the author’s concepts and requires orientation to methodologically predetermined transformations in the basis of the theory of style (for example, the human-dimensional nature of style). The problem, therefore, is that, on the example of selectively taken piano compositions of Transcarpathian composers of the period of the second half of the 20th century to present methodologically updated position of their stylistic analysis and executable interpretation – in view of the achievements of musicological thought at the border of the 20th – 21st centuries concerning the interpretation of stylistic phenomena of the modern age as a certain innovation project and its development in the conditions of post-traditional professionalism. Thus, today the task is to expand the perceptions of the piano creativity of the composers of Transcarpathia in the context of the whole 20th century, which includes the phases of modernism, modernism and avant-garde, united by the idea of the ultimate autonomy of the style. The scientifi c novelty of the conducted research is the broadening of the ideas of the pianoforte art of the Transcarpathian composers in the context of the intonation fund and the semantic fi eld of the European academic piano music of the whole 20th century, which contains the phases of modern, modernism and avant-garde, united by the intention of extreme style autonomy. Objectives. The purpose of the work is to comprehend the specifi cs of the analytical elaboration and performer’s interpretation of the «Etude» by D. Zador and «Impromptu » by I. Marton as such that, given the characteristic of the Transcarpathian region, the priority of choral compositions in the fi rst half of the 20th century testifi es to the formation of the original style initiatives, namely instrumental, in particular piano music in the middle of the twentieth century. Methods. The comparative, phenomenological and functional methods of research are used, which in aggregate gav e an opportunity to relate to the realities of the development of the national (Ukrainian) musicology, to reveal the world-view specifi cs and the vectors of individual stylistic modeling in the pianoforte art of Transcarpathian composers of the middle of the twentieth century, to provide knowledge of the semantic structure of the studied musical works. Results. It has been found out that on the background of changes in the mental paradigm of musical creativity from classical to post-classical, the analysis and interpretation of real musical text requires its semantic decoding in the intention of an accurate explanation of the idea and the intention of a particular musical work. However, as it has been established, there is an urgent need to focus on the immanent property of the semantic structure of innovative musical «projects», which exactly in the second half of the 20th century mostly show heterogeneity of style modelling – in the version of the active associative of correspondence range in the space of historical styles. This will provide an opportunity to eliminate the disadvantages of the formal-logical analysis method, which usually provokes the establishment and description of purely stylistic values of the real musical text without attempts at their fi gurative and semantic interpretation, and even provides an approximate summary of the analysis data at the level of the creative idea and the composer’s plan. It is proved that «Etude» с-moll of Dezyderiy Zador is a brightly modern (secessionist) stylistic model based on the characteristic of post-romanticism author’s stylization of historically known stylistic systems, and at the same time it has a distinctly individual, characteristic image concept, whose dynamic structure is determined by dramatic (semantic) perspective of the inclusion of various sorts of allusions and reminiscences concerning the manner of piano music; in turn, «Impromptu» by I. Marton is an example of mastering modernist trends with their expressionist (pathologized) expression of their perception of themselves in a spiritually declined world, when the declamative articulation of sound forms and their crystalline fragility, which are intended to recreate the ratio of the vulnerability of the alienated subject and inexorably terrible destructive power from the outside. Instead, it has been observed that not always the performers of the mentioned works read their idea and decode the image system. In general, this indicates an inability to adequately respond to styling in the version of the neo-stylistic formation (neo-romanticism, neoclassicism, etc.) – when the attachment of auditory experience to a historically known style (like manners – romantic, classical, etc.) tends to subconsciously ignore the transition to a hierarchical level of renewal (neo – renewed) by introducing innovations (sonorism, abstractly tuned block model of themes etc.) and the search for a stylistic centre of gravity using the allusion way of style development (allusion as the kind of indirect quoting) that ensures the existence of the concept of the so-called mixed style. Conclusions. The comprehension of the stylistic character of the creative ideas and intentions of piano art of Transcarpathian composers of the second half of the 20th century based on methods of semantic decoding of the real notations is heuristically productive for their hermeneutic reception – in order to maximize the probable approximation to the essence and concept of a musical composition and its adequate (meaningful) reproduction by the performers.
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Rusanova, Milena. "THE ORIGIN OF NEOCLASSICISM. NEOCLASSICISM IN CHOREOGRAPHY IN MUSICAL ART, LITERATURE AND DRAMA." Young Scientist 10, no. 86 (October 2020). http://dx.doi.org/10.32839/2304-5809/2020-10-86-66.
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The article examines the process of origin and formation of the Neoclassicism era in the Ukrainian art. Сultural processes of different types of art of Ukraine of the end of XX – the beginning of XXI century are investigated. the chronological boundaries of the neoclassical epoch in the countries of Europe and Ukraine are compared, their difference is determined. It provides a brief overview of the historical situation that led to the later flowering of neoclassicism. Features of neoclassicism in music, literature, drama and choreography are considered. In particular, the works of Ukrainian neoclassical writers as M. Zerov, M. Drai-Khmara, P. Phylypovych, M. Rylsky, Y.Klen, who entered the society of prosaics and poets «Kyiv Neoclacissist», are briefly characterized. The main goal of the Ukrainian neoclassical literature is outlined namely by researching authentic Ukrainian literature and assimilating the best European literary samples to create own unique literary forms. The musical neoclassical art is analysed, in particular, the essence of the concept "neofolklorism" is revealed (laying certain neoclassical principles on folklore motives, M. Skoryk’s oeuvre as an example). Problematic issues regarding the development of neoclassical drama in Ukraine arise, modern Ukrainian drama is considered in the context of economic market. The problem of Ukrainian drama’s competitive ability and possible conditions for this are analysed. Neoclassical choreographic art is studied, namely its characteristic features, directions, forms. The plot and non-plot neoclassical performances are compared; genres of post-neoclassical performances are listed. Non-plot ballet neoclassicism that originates from American choreographer J. Balanchyn’s oeuvre is created by using jazz and modern dancing means of expression and forms. Plot ballet neoclassicism originates from F. Ashton’s oeuvre and has Anglo-French origin. The main characteristics of the plot neoclassical performance are complicated ballet terminology, increasing of attention to dramatically or literary plot, the presence of realistic, expressionistic and surreal principles, using the pantomime, modern, jazz, popular, folklore dancing means of expression, dance symphony and academic ballet principles.
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Jasiński, Tomasz. "Krótki wykład o muzyce XX wieku. Kompendium dydaktyczne / A Short Lecture on Twentieth-Century Music. A Teaching Compendium." Annales UMCS, Artes 12, no. 2 (January 1, 2014). http://dx.doi.org/10.1515/umcsart-2015-0002.
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AbstractThe article is a comprehensive presentation of the history of music in the twentieth century, taking into account the main trends and phenomena of this period, inter alia impressionism, expressionism, neoclassicism, dodecaphony, punctualism, and total serialism, then avant-garde solutions and pluralism after World War Two (inter alia electronic music, concrete music (musique concrète), graphic music, aleatoric music, open forms, instrumental theater, minimal music), and finally the most recent trends (e.g. spectral music, new complexity, polystylistics), including a clearly marked return to the Romantic tradition. The chronologically presented discourse includes opinions that concisely explain some compositional solutions, as well as the list of composers and the titles of their works that exemplifi ed the problems discussed. The paper ends with the thoughts on the future of music in the new, twenty-first century.The article is meant as teaching material for the arts and humanities programs.
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"Neoclassicism in music: from the genesis of the concept through the Schoenberg/Stravinsky polemic." Choice Reviews Online 26, no. 01 (September 1, 1988): 26–0231. http://dx.doi.org/10.5860/choice.26-0231.
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Kravchenko, Nazar. "Multivariate performance principle of “Sicilian and burlesque” by A. Casella in stylistic conception of neoclassicism." National Academy of Managerial Staff of Culture and Arts Herald, no. 1 (April 20, 2021). http://dx.doi.org/10.32461/2226-3209.1.2021.229595.
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The purpose of the article is the detection of neoclassicism characteristics of A. Casella in the composition “Sicilianna and burlesque”. Methodology. The intonational approach from the unity of music and speech from B. Asaief’s school in Ukraine has become the methodological basis for this work. The scientific novelty of the work. The analysis of A. Casella’s composition “Sicilianna and burlesque” has been made for the first time in the history of Ukrainian music studies. It has been done in a stylistic direction. Conclusions. The analysis has shown the polystylistic complex, which is determined by a variety of instrumental set-up, where the elements of the ancient sonata form were united with programmable and playing filling for entire. It unites the neo-baroque and neo-renaissance style characteristics with a primitivistic interpretation of semantic elements in genre typology, also generating a variety of ensemble and orchestra line-ups. The specified combination of semantic components creates the negligence in dealing with religious symbols, which is characteristic of the Italian modern (compare with atheistic beliefs of the futurists and neo expressionists in the second half of the 20th century).