P'ansori: Korea's Epic Vocal Art and Instrumental Music

1974 ◽  
Vol 6 ◽  
pp. 166
Author(s):  
Bang-Song Song
Keyword(s):  
Instrumental Music ◽  
Vocal Art

P'ansori: Korea's Epic Vocal Art and Instrumental Music

Asian Music ◽  
1974 ◽  
Vol 5 (2) ◽  
pp. 66
Author(s):  
Bang-song Song ◽  
Jonathan Cott ◽  
David Lewiston
Keyword(s):  
Instrumental Music ◽  
Vocal Art

scholarly journals The hutsul music features in the structural and stylistic context of the performing folkloryzm

2020 ◽  
Vol 57 (57) ◽  
pp. 77-88
Author(s):  
Viktoriia Danylets
Keyword(s):  
Instrumental Music ◽  
Traditional Music ◽  
Professional School ◽  
Musical Structure ◽  
Traditional Art ◽  
Artistic Interpretation ◽  
Vocal Art ◽  
Composition Structure ◽  
Historical Comparative ◽  
Performing Art

Research objective. The article aims to describe the structural and stylistic components of performing folklorism and consideration regarding the existing definitions of multifaceted concept «performing folklorism», which represents theoretical and methodological tools for deep analysis of stylistics, genre, technical and performing elements and musical features that folklore expresses, their extrapolation to performing interpretative diversity in the context of Ukrainian music art. The methodology of the research is based on the theoretical, historical, comparative and analytical methods. The scientific novelty outlines structural and stylistic components of performing folklorism, which significantly affect the expression of national features in modern Ukrainian performing art. Conclusions. In a concept “performing folklorism” are two ponderable constituents in the dialogic form of intercommunication of these systems: professional academic performing art and folklore in his various palette of expression. Performing interpretation is a main point of arranged and ethnographic folklorism, that present performing folklorism. An important value in the context of modern national performing style belongs to the Hutsul instrumental traditional music, which is the unique artistic phenomenon of the Ukrainian musical culture. In general, the Hutsul genres played an important role in the formation and development of Ukrainian instrumental music, even though the Hutsul performance tradition mostly has an instrumental type of music presentation. The Hutsul region presents a numeral musical tool, ramified genre palette, and original stylish description that is provided due to the whole complex of structural and performing elements (strokes, articulation, fingering principles, timbre descriptions of sounding, dynamic). The outlined lines of the Hutsul folklore are traced in academic performing art. It follows to underline the originality of artistic expression and stylish originality of musical art of the Carpathian region, that predefined by the row of objective structural and style components: 1) maintenance and functioning of archaic elements of musical structure, such as a variant, improvisation, repetition; 2) considerable genre variety of executable music (kolomyjka, hutsulka, Ukrainian dance, hopak, snowstorm); 3) rhythms, as a cementing factor of musically-composition structure; 4) ornamental melodious line. The outlined structural and style components of the Hutsul folklore present wide interpretation multiplicity within the performing folklorism. The ponderable constituent of traditional music is the various system of technically-performing features. On technically-performing and genre-stylish levels, violin traditional art of the Hutsul region presents all system of the musical expressive features, presents traditional professional school of the violin performing art with a clear vector on the maintenance of archaic structures of musical compositions and them highly-artistic interpretation based on a wide palette of the whole complex of technical possibilities, that crystallized in the folktraditional performing. Ukrainian vocal, instrumental and vocally-instrumental collectives reconstruct an authentic genre-stylish model within the performing folklorism. Underlined the diversity of folk styles, symbiosis of the folk manner of singing with the academic vocal art. Thus, the national performing style provides an intelligent and deep interpretation of authorial works of folklore maintenance, a study of a wide palette of the traditional music that is characterized by ethnic characteristic intonation (concept of O. Kozarenko) musicians. The stylish component of performing folklorism presents differentiation of folk styles of implementation, following regional features, genres, forms, features of the traditional musical expressiveness. Performing folklorism, as a highly artistic phenomenon in Ukrainian music art, opened new possibilities for the representation of folk-instrumental and vocal traditions in the context of the national professional academic performing. Review and learning of the structural and stylistic components of performing folklorism, such as ethnic-regional style, genre characteristics, details, articulation, fingering, manner of play, vocal manner, dynamic nuances, timbral coloristic palette, determines the quality of the performing interpretation of the music compositions with the brightly national dominant. Within the performing folklorism crystallized appropriate professional repertoire, which comprises genres of vocal, choir, and instrumental music with the bright images and symbols of Ukrainian national folklore.

Maxim Berezovsky C-dur symphony in a context of new biographical scenario of artist’s life-creativity

2018 ◽  
pp. 13-25
Author(s):  
Olha Shumilina
Keyword(s):  
Eighteenth Century ◽  
Instrumental Music ◽  
Analytical Approach ◽  
Spiritual Direction ◽  
Theoretical Research ◽  
Orchestral Music ◽  
Musical Life ◽  
Analysis And Synthesis ◽  
Mental Modeling ◽  
Independent Work

Relevance of the study. The article studies recently found symphony of the prominent Ukrainian composer of the second half of the eighteenth century Maxim Berezovsky. He is widely known now as the author of cyclic spiritual concerts written for the Orthodox worship, and is practically unknown as a musician instrumentalist associated with the imperial theater and the court musical life. The work of M. Berezovsky as a secular musician determined the creative interest in composing instrumental music intended for secular chamber and orchestral music. Main objective of the article is a clarification of M.Berezovsky symphony as one of secular field artworks in the light of new summaries about artist’s life-creativity. Methodology. Taking into account peculiarities of the material and the analytical approach to its study, the methods of theoretical research have been chosen(abstraction, analysis and synthesis, induction and deduction, mental modeling, ascension from abstract to concrete, etc.). Conclusions. As a result of a study the symphony analysis in a context of new authentic statements about M.Berezovsky’s life-creativity. It was stated that this artwork was written not accidentally and detects absolute awareness of the artist in all composer’s niceties – how to build a topic and build a homophonic construction based on it, in a technique of orchestral construction, form creations of that time and etc. From the beginning of his creative career, M. Berezovsky was well aware of the possibilities of the orchestra as a performer, attached to the Italian opera and instrumental music. Symphony enriches our imagination about the works of M. Berezovsky in the field of secular instrumental and operatic music and extends the range of works of the artist beyond the spiritual direction. Some signs indicate that the Symphony was not an independent work, but an overture to the opera Demofont.

Maxim Berezovsky C-dur symphony in a context of new biographical scenario of artist’s life-creativity

2018 ◽  
pp. 13-25
Author(s):  
Olha Shumilina
Keyword(s):  
Eighteenth Century ◽  
Instrumental Music ◽  
Analytical Approach ◽  
Spiritual Direction ◽  
Theoretical Research ◽  
Orchestral Music ◽  
Musical Life ◽  
Analysis And Synthesis ◽  
Mental Modeling ◽  
Independent Work

Relevance of the study. The article studies recently found symphony of the prominent Ukrainian composer of the second half of the eighteenth century Maxim Berezovsky. He is widely known now as the author of cyclic spiritual concerts written for the Orthodox worship, and is practically unknown as a musician instrumentalist associated with the imperial theater and the court musical life. The work of M. Berezovsky as a secular musician determined the creative interest in composing instrumental music intended for secular chamber and orchestral music. Main objective of the article is a clarification of M.Berezovsky symphony as one of secular field artworks in the light of new summaries about artist’s life-creativity. Methodology. Taking into account peculiarities of the material and the analytical approach to its study, the methods of theoretical research have been chosen(abstraction, analysis and synthesis, induction and deduction, mental modeling, ascension from abstract to concrete, etc.). Conclusions. As a result of a study the symphony analysis in a context of new authentic statements about M.Berezovsky’s life-creativity. It was stated that this artwork was written not accidentally and detects absolute awareness of the artist in all composer’s niceties – how to build a topic and build a homophonic construction based on it, in a technique of orchestral construction, form creations of that time and etc. From the beginning of his creative career, M. Berezovsky was well aware of the possibilities of the orchestra as a performer, attached to the Italian opera and instrumental music. Symphony enriches our imagination about the works of M. Berezovsky in the field of secular instrumental and operatic music and extends the range of works of the artist beyond the spiritual direction. Some signs indicate that the Symphony was not an independent work, but an overture to the opera Demofont.

Wandering Archetypes in Schubert's Instrumental Music

1997 ◽  
Vol 21 (2) ◽  
pp. 208-222 ◽  
Author(s):  
William Kinderman
Keyword(s):  
Instrumental Music

Queering Musical Biography in the Writings of Edward Prime-Stevenson and Rosa Newmarch

2020 ◽  
Vol 44 (2) ◽  
pp. 100-118
Author(s):  
Kristin M. Franseen
Keyword(s):  
Twentieth Century ◽  
Instrumental Music ◽  
Primary Source ◽  
Gender And Sexuality ◽  
Benjamin Britten ◽  
Twentieth Century Music ◽  
History Of ◽  
Music Research ◽  
Symphonic Music ◽  
Biographical Knowledge

Beginning with the “open secret” of Benjamin Britten and Peter Pears's relationship and continuing through debates over Handel's and Schubert's sexuality and analyses of Ethel Smyth's memoirs, biography has played a central role in the development of queer musicology. At the same time, life-writing's focus on extramusical details and engagement with difficult-to-substantiate anecdotes and rumors often seem suspect to scholars. In the case of early-twentieth-century music research, however, these very gaps and ambiguities paradoxically offered some authors and readers at the time rare spaces for approaching questions of sexuality in music. Issues of subjectivity in instrumental music aligned well with rumors about autobiographical confession within Tchaikovsky's Symphony No. 6 (Pathétique) for those who knew how to listen and read between the lines. This article considers the different ways in which the framing of biographical anecdotes and gossip in scholarship by music critic-turned-amateur sexologist Edward Prime-Stevenson and Tchaikovsky scholar Rosa Newmarch allowed for queer readings of symphonic music. It evaluates Prime-Stevenson's discussions of musical biography and interpretation in The Intersexes (1908/9) and Newmarch's Tchaikovsky: His Life and Works (1900), translation of Modest Tchaikovsky's biography, and article on the composer in Grove's Dictionary of Music and Musicians to explore how they addressed potentially taboo topics, engaged with formal and informal sources of biographical knowledge (including one another's work), and found their scholarly voices in the absence of academic frameworks for addressing gender and sexuality. While their overt goals were quite different—Newmarch sought to dismiss “sensationalist” rumors about Tchaikovsky's death for a broad readership, while Prime-Stevenson used queer musical gossip as a primary source in his self-published history of homosexuality—both grappled with questions of what can and cannot be read into a composer's life and works and how to relate to possible queer meanings in symphonic music. The very aspects of biography that place it in a precarious position as scholarship ultimately reveal a great deal about the history of musicology and those who write it.

“Little Trio” for clarinet, bassoon and piano

2018 ◽  
pp. 75-79
Author(s):  
N. Yakovchuk
Keyword(s):  
Chamber Music ◽  
Instrumental Music ◽  
Instrumental Ensemble ◽  
Interesting Phenomenon ◽  
Theoretical Understanding ◽  
Classical Traditions ◽  
And Performance ◽  
Instrumental Ensembles ◽  
Written Compositions ◽  
First Time

The chamber-instrumental ensemble music in the Ukrainian musical culture of the last third of the 20th and the beginning of the 21st centuries occupies one of the leading places and is characterized by powerful processes in its development. Such circumstances caused the Ukrainian musicologist interests to the problems of chamber-instrumental music creativity and performance. There are appeared researches in the field of theory, history and performance problems covering the most important questions like chamber music definitions, specific genre issues, the growing function of piano in the Ukrainian chamber music, the increasing questions of technique and timbre importance of modern instrumental ensembles. In the significant multifaceted creative work of contemporary Ukrainian composer, Oleksandr Yakovchuk, the genre of chamber instrumental ensemble music represents a complex and interesting phenomenon. Original and skillfully written compositions reflect artistic world of the composer of postmodern time and gained recognition in music life of Ukraine and beyond. These works are highly appreciated in performing practice of our days. The purpose of the article is to analyze the work — “Little Trio” for clarinet, bassoon and piano (1980), which has the signs of neoclassical tendency in the composer’s style. The methodological basis of this research is a comprehensive approach in theoretical understanding of the subject of research (the methods of textology, source study as well as the method of interviewing the author were used). The scientific novelty of this article is in the priority of its main provisions, since the “Little Trio” entered the scientific circulation for the first time. The three-movement “Little Trio” (1980) is notable for the light feeling of timbre colours and the shape clarity. The Ist movement — Allegretto giocoso — is written in a sonata form following all classical traditions. Quite interesting are the two monologues of clarinet and bassoon from the IInd movement, they represent very modern line in Ukrainian chamber music — the possibility of sincere confession which comes through the solo cadence. In the IIIrd movement, the composer took advantage from the folk Ukrainian dance “hopak” using the rhythm of it and creating dance character of the Final.

Musik ohne musikalische Gehalte – Warum auch nicht?

2013 ◽  
Vol 58 (2) ◽  
pp. 81-105
Author(s):  
Gerson Reuter
Keyword(s):  
Instrumental Music ◽  
Actual Loss

Wir sind es gewohnt, auch Instrumentalmusik in semantischen Begriffen zu beschreiben. Derartige Musik scheint – nimmt man unsere Urteilspraxis beim Wort – beispielsweise Gedanken und Emotionen ausdrücken zu können. Dass Musik solche (und ähnliche) Gehalte hat, können wir, so die vorherrschende Meinung, im Zuge der Musikwahrnehmung auch hören. Der vorliegende Text ist im Kern ein Plädoyer dafür, dass wir derartigen Behauptungen mit Skepsis begegnen sollten. Nicht nur lassen sich Zweifel an ihrer Plausibilität anmelden; darüber hinaus dürfte es letztlich auch keinen wirklichen Verlust für unsere Musikerfahrung darstellen, zumindest einige dieser Weisen des Redens über Musik aufzugeben. Der Text ist allerdings nicht nur kritisch gehalten. Unterbreitet werden auch zwei Vorschläge, wie man einige der besonders tief in unserer Urteilspraxis verankerten derartigen Behauptungen verstehen könnte, ohne dabei vorauszusetzen, dass Musik – in typischen Situationen der Musikwahrnehmung – Gehalte aufweist.<br><br>We are used to describe instrumental music in semantic terms. Many of our judgements about music – at least if taken literally – seem to implicate that music is capable of expressing thoughts and emotions, for example. Moreover, in the course of listening to music, we actually seem to hear that music has such (and similar) contents. The main aim of the paper consists in presenting reasons for being skeptical towards such claims. Not only are these claims less plausible than one might think at first glance. What is more, at least some of these ways of talking about music are dispensable: we can give them up without any actual loss. The paper is not solely critical, though. It introduces two ideas aiming to show that some claims which are deeply anchored in our practice of articulating musical experiences can be understood without presupposing that the perceived music has some kind of content.

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