scholarly journals Fighting the Philistines: Robert Schumann and the Davidsbündler

2021 ◽  
Vol 12 (1) ◽  
pp. 1-9
Author(s):  
Stephen White
Keyword(s):  
Life Experiences ◽  
Personal Life ◽  
Robert Schumann ◽  
Musical Composition ◽  
Fictional Characters ◽  
Compositional Techniques ◽  
Piano Works ◽  
Romantic Era

Robert Schumann was an eccentric composer and musical critic who influenced the Romantic-era musical community through the formation of the Davidsbündler. This “league of David” was Schumann’s idea of a musical society which exemplified a distinctly pure style of modern musical composition. The style of the Davidsbündler was based on the idea that music must reflect the personal life experiences of its composer. Needing a journal to publish musical writings of Davidsbündler, Schumann created the New Journal for Music. Having himself suffered from mental instability throughout his life, Schumann’s music often displayed unique levels of polarity and passion in order to show his own life experiences. Schumann’s mental polarity and instability was directly showcased in his music through the natures of fictional characters Florestan and Eusebius. These characters are clearly displayed though the piano works Carnival and the Davidsbündlertänze. Through the use of modern musical compositional techniques such as chromaticism and syncopation along with clear characterizations of Florestan and Eusebius, the Davidsbündlertänze stands as a testament to the ideals of the Davidsbündler.

scholarly journals Musical Composition of Introverts dan Ekstroverts’ Extramusical Idea

2020 ◽  
Vol 3 (2) ◽  
pp. 125-133
Author(s):  
Mohamad Rohmatullah
Keyword(s):  
Creative Process ◽  
Research Method ◽  
Musical Composition ◽  
Compositional Techniques ◽  
Program Music ◽  
Literature Study ◽  
Piano Works ◽  
Study Approach ◽  
Scientific Disciplines ◽  
Musical Works

Purpose: Humans have different personalities, namely introverts and extroverts. Program music is one of the compositional techniques whose purpose is to describe something in the creation of music through the analogy of meaning. Research methods: This creation research uses the Practice-Led Research method. Data obtained through a literature study approach, then the data is associated with music through an analogy process. Results and discussion: The creative process in creating music is very diverse, one of which is through extra-musical ideas. In the realm of music creation other disciplines can be used as music creation ideas. Psychology and music can be related through listening and feeling. The musical works created are vocal and piano works about introverts and extroverts. Implication: The implications of this research creation are expected to trigger the idea of creating music more broadly, especially across scientific disciplines.

Richard Wagner: Leitmotiv e Música Dramática

2010 ◽  
Vol 18 (36) ◽  
pp. 25-44
Author(s):  
Elisabete M. de Sousa ◽  
Keyword(s):  
Richard Wagner ◽  
Robert Schumann ◽  
Musical Composition ◽  
Musical Language ◽  
Program Music ◽  
Hector Berlioz ◽  
Verbal Language ◽  
Present Essay ◽  
The 19Th Century ◽  
The Impact

The present essay presents the content of the landmarks that punctuate the long dialogue between verbal language and musical language during the 19th Century, by means of examples taken from the critical and theoretical writings of Hector Berlioz, Robert Schumann and Richard Wagner. In the search for the dramatic essence of music, such dialogue took different forms: the possibility of verbal language being translated by musical language, the pre-existence of a musical-poetic idea in any musical composition, eventually contributing to the appearance of program music, and finally, the principles presiding over Wagner’s Gesamtkunstwerk. Special emphasis is given to Richard Wagner’s Parisian article De l'Ouverture (1841), as well as to the impact on Soren Kierkegaard.

scholarly journals I. B. KRAMER’S PIANO WORK IN THE ASPECT OF INTERRELATION OF PERFORMANCE AND COMPOSITION

2021 ◽  
Vol 58 (58) ◽  
pp. 96-112
Author(s):  
Marianna Cherniavska
Keyword(s):  
Piano Pedagogy ◽  
Scientific Discipline ◽  
Compositional Techniques ◽  
Chamber Works ◽  
Piano Technique ◽  
Piano Works ◽  
Musical Works ◽  
Musical Thinking ◽  
Short Time ◽  
The Relationship

Background. The article is devoted to the piano work of the famous English pianist, teacher and composer Johann Baptist Kramer (1771–1858), whose 250th anniversary is celebrated in 2021. I. B. Kramer, like other pianists of the late XVIII – early XIX centuries, tried to solve a significant problem – mastering the basics of composition, its laws, principles, techniques, their combination with the game nature and capabilities of the piano. Objectives. The purpose of the article is to reveal the relationship between performing and compositional means in I. B. Kramer’s piano works. Methods. The basis of the methodology is a systematic approach, through which musicological research methods are combined with historical ones. The main document of the era in the field of musicological research is the musical text, so the analysis of musical works is carried out from the standpoint of performance at the levels of performing technical means, musical thinking of the composer and performer. Other components of the texture, the development of its individual layers in the whole system, as well as the coverage of one or another feature of the playing nature of the piano are also taken into account. Conclusions. I. B. Kramer’s pedagogical system is considered, which is a system of technical means of performance, which contributed to the embodiment of the game nature of the instrument. In works of art, the composer used these techniques as needed to create a certain figurative sphere. Analyzed “Pathetic Fantasy” op. 87 (1837), four notebooks Suite – arrangements for piano chamber works of classical composers, where the composer embodied ensemble thinking on the piano, introduced the principles of dialogicity and comparison of registers as a method of artistic development of musical material. Results. Continuing the work of his teacher M. Clementi, I. B. Kramer contributed to the development of concert activities in Europe, the differentiation of pedagogy, performance and composition into independent musical activities. His methodical works and opuses of etudes were the basis of pedagogy for the next generations of pianists, defined the foundations of piano pedagogy as a scientific discipline. The piano instructional material created by I. B. Kramer allowed to master the techniques of piano playing in a short time. Along with L. V. Beethoven, I. B. Kramer made an important contribution to deepening the content of musical works by means of composer’s writing. The perfection of the presentation of piano technique had a positive effect on the development of compositional techniques in the works of the musician – the development of contrasting themes, the principles of development of musical material, the improvement of musical forms. The sphere of dramatic pathos and heroism defined the image of pathos in music, which corresponded to the possibilities of the instrument and at the same time contributed to the formation of a romantic style in piano art.

scholarly journals Health as Experience: Exploring Health in Daily Life Drawing From the Work of Aaron Antonovsky and John Dewey

2020 ◽  
Vol 30 (7) ◽  
pp. 1004-1018
Author(s):  
Ninitha Maivorsdotter ◽  
Joacim Andersson
Keyword(s):  
Life Story ◽  
Life Experiences ◽  
Daily Life ◽  
Social Practices ◽  
Personal Life ◽  
The Novel ◽  
Narrative Approaches ◽  
Good Living ◽  
A Chain ◽  
Aaron Antonovsky

Research has pursued salutogenic and narrative approaches to deal with questions about how everyday settings are constitutive for different health practices. Healthy behavior is not a distinguishable action, but a chain of activities, often embedded in other social practices. In this article, we have endeavored to describe such a chain of activities guided by the salutogenic claim of exploring the good living argued by McCuaig and Quennerstedt. We use biographical material written by Karl Ove Knausgaard who has created a life story entitled My Struggle. The novel is selected upon an approach influenced by Brinkmann who stresses that literature can be seen as a qualitative social inquiry in which the novelist is an expert in transforming personal life experiences into common human expressions of life. The study illustrates how research with a broader notion of health can convey experiences of health, thereby complementing (and sometimes challenging) public health evidence.

The “Masters” in the Shiji

T oung Pao ◽  
2015 ◽  
Vol 101 (4-5) ◽  
pp. 335-362 ◽  
Author(s):  
Martin Kern
Keyword(s):  
Intellectual History ◽  
Life Experiences ◽  
Personal Life ◽  
Warring States ◽  
Chinese Thought ◽  
Selective Approach ◽  
Sima Qian ◽  
History Of ◽  
The Creation

The intellectual history of the ancient philosophical “Masters” depends to a large extent on accounts in early historiography, most importantly Sima Qian’s Shiji which provides a range of longer and shorter biographies of Warring States thinkers. Yet the ways in which personal life experiences, ideas, and the creation of texts are interwoven in these accounts are diverse and uneven and do not add up to a reliable guide to early Chinese thought and its protagonists. In its selective approach to different thinkers, the Shiji under-represents significant parts of the textual heritage while developing several distinctive models of authorship, from anonymous compilations of textual repertoires to the experience of personal hardship and political frustration as the precondition for turning into a writer.
L’histoire intellectuelle des “maîtres” de la philosophie chinoise ancienne dépend pour une large part de ce qui est dit d’eux dans l’historiographie ancienne, tout particulièrement le Shiji de Sima Qian, qui offre une série de biographies plus ou moins étendues de penseurs de l’époque des Royaumes Combattants. Cependant leur vie, leurs idées et les conditions de création de leurs textes se combinent dans ces biographies de façon très inégale, si bien que l’ensemble ne saurait être considéré comme l’équivalent d’un guide de la pensée chinoise ancienne et de ses auteurs sur lequel on pourrait s’appuyer en toute confiance. Dans sa façon d’approcher sélectivement les différents penseurs, le Shiji tend à sous-représenter des secteurs significatifs de l’héritage textuel; en même temps il développe plusieurs modèles distinctifs de rapport entre texte et auteur, depuis la compilation anonyme de répertoires textuels jusqu’à l’expérience du malheur et à la frustration politique posées comme conditions pour devenir écrivain.


scholarly journals Compositional Technique as a Tool of Political Statement in the Works of Louis Andriessen

2021 ◽  
pp. 121-138
Author(s):  
Vitalii Vyshynskyi
Keyword(s):  
Point Of View ◽  
Musical Composition ◽  
Compositional Techniques ◽  
Political Activities ◽  
Main Research ◽  
Political Views ◽  
Compositional Technique ◽  
New Type ◽  
The Republic ◽  
Louis Andriessen

Relevance of the study. The work of Louis Andriessen, a Dutch composer, is regarded as a significant contribution to the formation of music culture of the second half of the 20th century. Despite his influence, however, there are practically no research papers in domestic musicology that would analyze Andriessen’s work and personality or his professional musical and political activities. One of the main research topics related to Andriessen’s work is the influence of politics on music. The topic itself is quite particular and somewhat controversial because it always leaves a lot of questions that need further clarification, may require a different perspective and a new approach. One of such questions with a controversial view is a discussion of how compositional techniques can be influenced by and formed based upon the composer’s political views. Main objective of the study. Taking into consideration Louis Andriessen’s own experiences, analyze how his compositional techniques created political content of his works, and particularly the writing of the cantata “De Staat” (“The Republic”) by Plato. Methods. The following were used in the research analysis: biographical (in the analyses of the style and work of the composer); historical (in the analyses of the cultural and socio-political context); comparative (in the analyses of the political and aesthetic views and standpoints of artists); analytical (in the analyses of the musical works). Results/findings and conclusions. There were several reasons that led Louis Andriessen to appeal to minimalism. The main reason was the composer’s desire to respond to his fellow composers that themselves were searching for their own applicable techniques and style to disseminate political ideas. Minimalism was particularly attractive to the composer because it was relevant, easily accessible to the general public, and reflective. At the same time, it was politically appropriate and democratic. The musical and political activism of Andriessen was aimed at creating a new type of communication and relationships between a composer and a performer, a performer and audience, and ultimately at creating a new musical community. This new type of communication and community is reflected in the composer’s work “The Republic”. For performers in particular, “The Republic” became a practical exercise similar to the style of Lehrstück B. Brecht, which allowed performers to adapt to new musical interactions proposed by the composer. Andriessen was able to achieve this goal by using hocket techniques — i. e., by removing the role inequality among performers and emphasizing the expressive importance of each performer in a musical composition. However, Andriessen’s compositional techniques used in “The Republic” to reflect his political views did not support, but rather emphasized the composer’s contradictory political position and in particular his binary position to Plato’s views on the place of music in politics. Nevertheless, it was “The Republic” that started the creation of a unique performance and approach in musical composition called “Andriessen’s approach”, which would successfully combine minimalism with traditional European compositional techniques, modern and experimental techniques, and components of music at large. At the very end, the unique combination of the aforementioned compositional techniques is what identifies the specificity of the content of Andriessen’s music. Significance of these results consists in the point of view on the question of how a compositional technique forms political content in the music written by Louis Andriessen

scholarly journals Five preludes of Mykola Roslavets in the reflection of academic and avant-garde trends of his time

2021 ◽  
pp. 179-187
Author(s):  
Pavlo Minhalov
Keyword(s):  
Piano Music ◽  
Compositional Style ◽  
Compositional Techniques ◽  
Xxth Century ◽  
Avant Garde ◽  
Piano Works ◽  
Intellectual System ◽  
Mature Period ◽  
History Of ◽  
Further Development

The article considers a set of problems related to the study of piano art of the early XXth century and, in particular, the piano work of Mykola Roslavets. It provides the characteristic of the main vectors of piano miniature development, its genre and construction diversity. It emphasizes the composers' creative search in the early XXth century, the desire to embody new, not yet tested compositional techniques. The article notes the influence of traditional and avant-garde trends on the compositional style of that time and their synthesis in a single author's style. It describes five preludes for piano by Mykola Roslavets as one of the most significant achievements of the mature period of the artist's work, which fully reveals the key features of the composer's sense and desire for syntheticity and a new, intellectual, system of sound organization. The five preludes are stated to not have an accidental cycle structure reflecting the influence of many styles and compositional techniques, accumulating the achievements of previous musical epochs and sprouts of the latest, quite important musical trends in piano music. The author notes undoubted influence of Mykola Roslavets' work on the further development of musical art, its relevance and modernity. The proposed analysis should contribute to a more complete understanding of the history of piano music of the first third of the XXth century, elucidate the origins of innovative composers, undeservedly overlooked by musicologists, performers and listeners, and replenish the performing repertoire with piano works by Mykola Roslavets.

scholarly journals KAJIAN STRUKTURAL CERPEN KARANGAN SISWA KELAS IX MTS AL-FURQON KLARI KARAWANG DAN PEMANFAATANNYA SEBAGAI RENCANA PELAKSANAAN PEMBELAJARAN

2021 ◽  
Vol 9 (1) ◽  
pp. 14-29
Author(s):  
Ulfa Siti Nurfalah
Keyword(s):  
Short Stories ◽  
Short Story ◽  
Life Experiences ◽  
Point Of View ◽  
Personal Life ◽  
Implementation Plan ◽  
Story Structure

This study aims to describe the structure of the story through intrinsic elements, namely the facts of the story and literary means contained in short stories written by students of class IX MTs Al-Furqon Klari Karawang and their use as a Learning Implementation Plan (RPP). Sources of data in this study were several short stories written by students of class IX MTs Al-Furqon Klari Karawang. The data in this study are statements or sentences written in short stories written by students describing Robert Stanton's structuralism and categorized into two parts, namely the facts of the story and literary means. The results of this study reveal that the short stories written by students of class IX MTs Al-Furqon Klari Karawang mostly describe the personal life experiences of the author. The short story composition has a story structure in terms of intrinsic elements, namely the facts of the story, namely in terms of plot, characters, setting and theme. Not only in terms of the facts of the story but literary means which can be divided into five parts, namely; title, point of view, style and tone, symbolism and irony. Abstrak Penelitian ini bertujuan mendeskripsikan struktur cerita melalui unsur intrinsik yakni fakta-fakta cerita dan sarana-sarana sastra yang terdapat dalam karangan cerpen karya siswa kelas IX MTs Al-Furqon Klari Karawang beserta pemanfaatannya sebagai Rencana Pelaksanaan Pembelajaran (RPP). Sumber data dalam penelitian ini adalah beberapa karangan cerpen siswa kelas IX MTs Al- Furqon Klari Karawang. Data dalam penelitian ini adalah pernyataan atau kalimat yang tertuang dalam teks cerpen karangan siswa yang mendeskripsikan strukturalisme Robert Stanton dan dikategorikan menjadi dua bagian yaitu fakta- fakta cerita dan sarana-sarana sastra. Hasil penelitian ini mengungkapakan bahwa pada karangan cerpen karya siswa kelas IX MTs Al-Furqon Klari Karawang ini sebagian besar menggambarkan pengalaman kehidupan pribadi pengarang. Karangan cerpen tersebut memilki struktur cerita dari segi unsur intrinsik yakni fakta-fakta cerita yaitu dari segi alur, karakter, latar dan tema. Tidak hanya dari segi fakta-fakta cerita melainkan sarana-sarana sastra yang dapat dibagi menjadi lima bagian yakni; judul, sudut pandang, gaya dan tone, simbolisme dan ironi. Karangan cerpen tersebut terdapat dua pokok pembahasan yang akan dianalisis yaitu, kajian struktural Robert Stanton dan pemanfaatannya sebagai rencana pelaksanaan pembelajaran. Kata Kunci: Kajian Struktural, Fakta-Fakta Cerita, Sarana-Sarana Sastra, Rencana Pelaksanaan Pembelajaran

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