BAROQUE MINIMALISM IN JOHN ADAMS'S VIOLIN CONCERTO

Tempo ◽  
2012 ◽  
Vol 66 (260) ◽  
pp. 23-33
Author(s):  
Kheng Keow Koay

AbstractThis study explores Adams's interpretation of Baroque genres and his creative methods that draw on a relationship between past and present in the Violin Concerto. In this composition, Adams not only revives Baroque musical language through new performance practices, but also draws together diverse musical idioms, creating a way to communicate with our society. Repetition plays a large part in the Violin Concerto, but more in the sense of variation and sequences than of literal repetition. On the other hand, techniques such as the Lombard Snap and “unequal-note’ (notes inégales) are not treated in a traditional way. Structurally, although there is no trace of motivic connexion throughout the work, the music does not lack stylistic unity. The ‘harmonic’ language is generally consonant, which reflects Adams's honor of conventional musical sound. The Concerto certainly demonstrates the composer's creative imagination.

2019 ◽  
pp. 249-260
Author(s):  
Oliver Morgan

This chapter examines the implications the turn-taking approach for our understanding of early modern performance practices. On the one hand, Shakespearean dialogue is full of subtle effects of timing and sequence that would seem to call for careful rehearsal and a detailed knowledge of the script. On the other hand, everything we know about early modern theatre suggests it was performed with minimal rehearsal by actors who did not necessarily know when, or from where, their next cue would arrive. This apparent mismatch I call ‘the performability gap’. The question is how it can be bridged. The explanation provided by Simon Palfrey and Tiffany Stern—that Shakespeare’s plays are designed to make artistic capital from their own under-rehearsal—does not entirely solve the problem. The second half of the chapter speculates about how else we might account for the gap.


2001 ◽  
Vol 37 (1) ◽  
pp. 103-112
Author(s):  
Niall O'Loughlin

The large-scale romantic concerto has been reevaluated by many composers of the 20th century. These have included Stravinsky, Honegger and Frank Martin, who have all tended to compose on a much smaller scale. One such work is Ivo Petrić's Trois images, a violin concerto dating from 1972-73. It displays an ambiguous approach to form, the relationships between the soloist and orchestra, the use of musical motives and the idea of the concerto. On the one hand, it has links with tradition in that it uses the title and three-movement structure of the concerto, the traditional relationships of dialogue, solo and accompaniment, development of motives and virtuoso techniques. On the other hand, it breaks with tradition by disguising the contrasts and separation of the individual movements, and transforming traditional concerto techniques for use in the freely coordinated idiom that the composer was using at the time. It proves to be an excellent example of how concerto techniques can be combined with the techniques of the avant-garde.


Comunicar ◽  
2004 ◽  
Vol 12 (23) ◽  
pp. 25-30 ◽  
Author(s):  
Juan-Bautista Romero-Carmona

This paper tries to show a brief but profound view about new languages of communication introduced at school. On the one hand, the musical language included in the curriculo and the other hand the technological language spread in our society in order to transmit the importance of new technologies as well as the different posibilities that they offer to the teaching-learning process inside the educational area focusing on the musical educational one. Con este artículo se pretende dar una visión superficial, pero cargada de intencionalidad, sobre algunos de los nuevos lenguajes de comunicación que se han implantado en la escuela. Por un lado, el lenguaje musical recogido en el currículo y por otro, el lenguaje tecnológico extendido en nuestra sociedad. Se intenta transmitir la importancia que tienen las nuevas tecnologías, así como las diferentes posibilidades que ofrecen para el proceso de enseñanza-aprendizaje dentro del ámbito educativo, centrándonos de manera especial en el campo de la educación musical.


2015 ◽  
Vol 12 (1) ◽  
pp. 90-98 ◽  
Author(s):  
Katarzyna Naliwajek-Mazurek

Abstract The article is an attempt to present important categories of composer Paweł Szymański’s musical language, based on his self-analytical statements, which were in major part answers to musicologists’ questions. Luciano Berio pointed out why the situation of a composer who would like to address questions about his or her music is difficult - a lack of necessary detachment would be one of the reasons. A musicologist, on the other hand, is tempted to construct their own supposedly objective analytical view of a composer’s musical language. The dialogistic approach proposed by anthropological musicology may be a solution to these dilemmas. Other main topics mentioned in the article are related to the role of meta-concepts in Szymański’s musical language.


2019 ◽  
Vol 5 (1) ◽  
Author(s):  
Ricardo Alex Palmezano

In this paper, I investigate how the composer searches for his own voice in his violin concerto while using a blend of influences such as Bartok, twelve-tone and Brazilian popular music. Galon argues that composers such as Bartok, Stravinsky and Villa-Lobos followed an independent, more varied compositional style without subscribing to any specific method.[1]On the other hand, the self-proclaimed mainstream of the Second Viennese School established a very structured, particular way of writing music. The composer seems to put into question the mechanization of composition of the dodecaphonic method, but validates its use as a way of refraining his creative impulse.[2]While Bartok’s Violin Concerto No. 2provides a framework for his piece; the tools he uses to manipulate the musical material are drawn from a free use of serialism and Brazilian contemporary music philosophy and aesthetic.    


2019 ◽  
Vol 4 (2) ◽  
pp. 452-475 ◽  
Author(s):  
Annette Arlander

Is it possible to respond to the challenge of a philosopher with artistic means, rather than on the one hand by attempting to philosophize, or on the other hand by resorting to illustration or application? Perhaps it is not. This text is nevertheless an attempt at responding to the challenge posed to artists by Michael Marder who, in volume 1 of this journal, challenged philosophers and artists ‘to include the spatiality, movement, and perspective of the vegetal in their work’ (Marder 2015, 192). The artistic research project ‘Performing with plants’ could be understood as a response to this challenge. In this text I will briefly outline the plan for the project, relate it to the current interest in plant thinking, plant theory and new materialist feminist theory and then focus on some works loosely related to the project, which seem to resonate with Marder’s challenge in some sense. The variations of Resting with Pines performed in September 2017 in Nida Art Colony on the Curonian spit in Lithuania will serve as attempts to include and even emulate the vegetal, and as an example of a characteristic common to many performance practices, namely the tendency to go on, to ‘keep growing’.


2018 ◽  
Vol 17 (1) ◽  
pp. 113-151
Author(s):  
Aisyah Ishak ◽  
Rosni Samah

This article discussed about the aesthetics of a Sufist poet, Ahmad Kamal Abdullah, known as “Kemala”, who is the most famous Modern Malaysian poet. There are a lot of his spiritual and mystical poems collected in several collections or “diwan”. Therefore, this study aims to decipher his mystical poems focused on both of its forms and contents; which studied the form of selected poems consisting of five points: musical, language, intertextuality, symbols and image. On the other hand, it also studied the contents in order to know the ideas that were raised, his emotions, and also its meanings and significance. Finally, the article displayed the results; firstly in terms of its form, the selected poems presented by the poet use several rhymes in one poem, which showed that they are contemporary poems not bonded by a single rhyme, which are the normal form for classical poems. Besides that, the article found that the poet used elements of repetition and question style frequently in his poetry and it is basically related to his emotions and the strength of his feelings. In addition, the poet used the vocabularies and phrases that indicate the meanings of love, besides revealing the element of intertextuality which were affected by Quranic verses, stories of the prophets, the historical incidents, the philosophy of love by Imam al-Ghazali, and also the classical Malay poetry. After that, the study showed that the poet used two types of imageries in his mystical poems; metaphoric and real images, selected by Kemala in order to reveal his feelings of love. Secondly: in term of its contents, it is heavily focused on three important topics; the poetry of love for Allah SWT, the poetry of love for Prophet Muhammad SAW, and the Sufisme love poetry. Last but not least, we can find from this analytical study that Kemala is a Sufist poet revealing his feelings and ideas intellectually and creatively, as well as a Ghazal poet due to selected texts that qualified the Ghazal Poem which is well known in Middle East. Keywords: Mystical Ghazal- Aesthetics- Love- Kemala   تتناول هذه المقالة عن جماليات شعر الغزل الصوفي عند  أحمد كمال عبدالله (Ahmad Kamal Abdullah) المعروف بـ "كمالا" (Kemala)، وهو من أشهر الشعراء الماليزيين في العصر الحديث. واشتهر بقصائده الروحية والصوفية التي جمعت في دواوين عدة بعناوين خاصة. ويعبر في قصائده عما في قلبه من القضايا أو الظواهر من الحوادث والقصص التي حدثت حوله محليا أو عالميا. ولذلك، تهدف هذه المقالة إلى دراسة النصوص الصوفية له شكلا ومضمونا، فمن حيث الشكل تدرس المستوى الموسيقي، والمستوى اللغوي، والتناص، والرمز، والصورة. وأما دراسة مضامين النصوص فهي تركز على  تجلية جماليتها، ومعرفة أفكار الشاعر المطروحة فيها، وعواطفه، وأيضا دلالة تلك الأفكار. وتوصلت المقالة إلى عدة نتائج؛ وأهمها؛ أن النصوص من ظواهرها الشكلية تكونت من القوافي غير الموحدة المعروفة في شعر الحر، مع إيجاد ظاهرة التكرار فيها مؤديا إلى معانيها الخاصة مرتبطة بالواقع النفسي عند الشاعر، وكثرة استخدام أساليبب الاستفهام، واستخدام المفردات والعبارات التي تدل على الحب والشوق والعشق، ومع وجود ظاهرة التناص من قصص الأنبياء والحوادث التاريخية وفلسفة الحب والشوق عند الإمام الغزالي، وبجانب الاستفادة من معاني الآية القرأنية والتراث الشعري القديم. كما استخدم الشاعر صورا تشبيهية وفنية في نقل أفكاره إلى المتلقي بطريقة فعالة تثير القلب واستخدام رموز متعددة. وأن نصوص الغزل الصوفي عند كمالا قد تحدثت عن ثلاثة موضوعات وهي شعر الحب الإلهي، والحب النبوي، والسكر الصوفي. والخلاصة، يعد كمالا شاعرا صوفيا مبدعا مثقفا، وكذلك شاعر الغزل الذي يقدم حبه الخالص للمحبوب والعشق به بكل قدسية،  وبطريقة فعالة بالأساليب الجذابة.   الكلمات المفتاحية: الغزل الصوفي – جماليات – الحب – العشق – كمالا


Tempo ◽  
1963 ◽  
pp. 28-36
Author(s):  
Zoltán Kodály

When searching for Hungarian character in music, we must start out from a wider circle, where we can still find some traces of it, and then work towards increasing density. A linguist pays attention to words which can be found scattered in Latin documents or words which were picked up by foreign authors in a distorted or misinterpreted form. Sometimes one finds a phrase of melody also in a foreign musical work, the rhythm of which we feel to be of Hungarian provenance. Therefore it is necessary for us to examine the works of foreign composers, which by title or by theme, contain some Hungarian characteristics. It is possible that they have preserved Hungarian melodies, the Hungarian source of which cannot be found. On the other hand there are certain works which can approach the Hungarian character in music without taking over melodies at all. The existence of a special Hungarian musical idiom is proved by the fact that also foreigners can learn it, and can use it, as a language, well or badly. However, the nationality of the composer may be superimposed—especially in more serious works—on the foreign melodies he has borrowed. Beethoven's works based on Russian themes cannot be called Russian music, nor his Turkish March Turkish. In his Scottish songs he adapted even Scottish melodies to his own musical language. Still there is a ‘cantus firmus’ and, in some cases, we can speak about bilingual music when accompaniment and melody belong to two different musical languages.


2019 ◽  
pp. 1-41
Author(s):  
Takanori Fujita ◽  
Edgar W. Pope

A puzzling situation defines the contemporary transmission of nō theater. On one hand, the genre’s community of practice is governed by strict orders to preserve musical sound through repeated imitation and to avoid change at all costs. On the other hand, the community discourages explicit dialogue between teachers and learners concerning what exactly constitutes those ideal musical sounds as well as the extent to which those sonic ideals are being faithfully maintained across performances. With a focus on the transmission of hiranori vocal rhythms, Fujita explores the ambivalent strategies with which participants navigate this conundrum and discovers a paradoxical process by which nō theater’s so-called “preservation imperative” actually encourages musical change. Citation: Fujita, Takanori. The Community of Classical Japanese Music Transmission: The Preservation Imperative and the Production of Change in Nō. Translated by Edgar W. Pope. Ethnomusicology Translations, no. 9. Bloomington, IN: Society for Ethnomusicology, 2019. Originally published in Japanese as “Koten ongaku denshō no kyōdōtai: nō ni okeru hozon meirei to henka no sōshutsu." In Shintai no kōchikugaku: shakaiteki gakushū katei toshite no shintai gihō, edited by Fukushima Masato, 357-413. Tokyo: Hitsuji Shobō, 1995. 藤田隆則 1995年「古典音楽伝承の共同体―能における保存命令と変化の創出」福島真人編『身体の構築学』:357-413


1999 ◽  
Vol 173 ◽  
pp. 249-254
Author(s):  
A.M. Silva ◽  
R.D. Miró

AbstractWe have developed a model for theH2OandOHevolution in a comet outburst, assuming that together with the gas, a distribution of icy grains is ejected. With an initial mass of icy grains of 108kg released, theH2OandOHproductions are increased up to a factor two, and the growth curves change drastically in the first two days. The model is applied to eruptions detected in theOHradio monitorings and fits well with the slow variations in the flux. On the other hand, several events of short duration appear, consisting of a sudden rise ofOHflux, followed by a sudden decay on the second day. These apparent short bursts are frequently found as precursors of a more durable eruption. We suggest that both of them are part of a unique eruption, and that the sudden decay is due to collisions that de-excite theOHmaser, when it reaches the Cometopause region located at 1.35 × 105kmfrom the nucleus.


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