scholarly journals The chamber kui is the genre of the kazakh academical music

Author(s):  
G. Т. Akparova

Since the formation of the chamber and instrumental music in Kazakhstan, the traditional instrumental genrekui – has become the vector of creative search, the basis for the synthesis of national and western musical thinking. The purpose of this article is to reveal the features of the traditional genre within the framework of academic music and to present a new genre – chamber kui.The expression of kui in the works is functionally represented in a variety of ways. The embodiment of the semantics of kui in its figurative meaning is given in the title of the work. When using the folk instrumental genre in professional writing, the authors give a functional association to it presented in the work in the form of a fragment (melody or accompaniment). The next point in the gradation of kui features in the chamber and instrumental works of composers of Kazakhstan is the dominance of its features: motor skills, variant-variational development of form, texture, throughout the work or part of it.The formation of a new genre – chamber kui was the result of creative searches for the synthesis of Kazakh folk instrumental creativity-kui, the connection of the laws of its formation and shaping with the achievements of European creative experience. In form, these pieces are kui (alternation of three register zones characteristic of the traditional genre), in harmony, quart-quint consonances are used, recreating the overtone density of the dombra timbre in the sound of the European instrument.

2020 ◽  
Vol 19 (4) ◽  
pp. 220-227
Author(s):  
M.G. Kruglova ◽  

in the development of American music of the 19th century, researchers find stylistic trends in romanticism. During this period, the characteristic features of national musical thinking and the features of the composer’s work of US composers manifest themselves. A similar thing was observed in European music of the same century: the Polish national composer school was formed in Chopin’s works, Liszt embodied the features of Hungarian music, Grieg – Norwegian, etc. Since the beginning of the 19th century, American composers have been passionate about European romantic trends, but at the same time they have gone and developed along their special path. The influence of Schubert, Schumann, Mendelssohn is felt in the works of American composers of the mid-19th century, in the literature of the USA romanticism manifested itself much earlier, and its development was peculiar and special due to the ethnic and historical development of the country. However, all these most important historical pages still remain almost without the attention of scholars, researchers, and are also absent from the courses of music history not only colleges, but also universities of art culture. In this work, an attempt is made to outline ways to master the artistic and creative experience of composers of the USA of the 19th century in the process of studying professional disciplines by students of universities of culture and art and at the same time enriching the scientific experience of musicology with new discoveries in the field of American romantic music.


2014 ◽  
Vol 45 ◽  
pp. 1-25
Author(s):  
Don Harrán

Marco Uccellini (1610–80) published seven instrumental collections, four in the 1630s–40s and three in the 1660s. About one third of the works, 92 to be exact, carry titles or labels of various kinds. After preliminary information on the composer and his instrumental works (section 1), the author considers his dedication practices as an exercise in morphology and typology (section 2). He then turn to opus 4 (1645). Beyond having Uccellini's first examples of solo sonatas, six in all, the opus warrants attention for the inscriptions, in the six, to various women, e.g. a triumphant Victoria, a satisfied Luciminia and a shining Laura; Uccellini may have drawn some of them from literary and historical sources (section 3). Assuming that the information gleaned from the titles to Uccellini's works can serve as a measuring rod for those in others' works, the author summarizes the questions that apply methodologically to the study of dedications in the seventeenth-century instrumental literature at large (section 4).


2020 ◽  
Vol 21 (21) ◽  
pp. 150-163
Author(s):  
Nataliіa Нrebeniuk

Background. Close relationships to a song is one of the constants of F. Schubert’s individual thinking. As it embraces all the genre spheres in composer’s heritage, it acquires a universal status, resulting in interchange of author’s findings in chamber-vocal and instrumental works, particularly piano ones. The researchers reveal influence of songs in non-song works by F. Schubert on two main levels: intonationally-thematical and structural. This raised a question about premises, which had created conducive conditions for integration of compositional principles, characteristic for songs and instrumental works by F. Schubert. This question is regarded on the example of three last Piano Sonatas by F. Schubert. Having been written in proximity to composer’s death, they demonstrated unity of composer’s style, achieved by him by integrating his innovations in song and instrumental genres into a unity of the highest degree. Objectives and methodology. The goal of the given article is to study the structure of selected songs by F. Schubert, marked by throughout dramatic development, and to reveal their influence on composer’s last piano sonatas. In order to achieve these goals, compositionally-dramaturgical and comparative methods of analysis were used. Theoretical preconditions. As a reference point for studying of influence of F. Schubert’s songs on his instrumental works, we might consider an article by V. Donadze (1940). In this research author for the first time formulated a view on composer’s song lyricism not only as on central element of his heritage, but also as on a factor, penetrating and uniting all the genres, in which the composer had worked. Thus, concept “song-like symphonism” entered musicological lexicon. The fruitful idea about song-like thinking of F. Schubert found rich development in numerous works of researchers of next generations and keeps its relevance up to nowadays. Results. Even in the one of the very first masterpieces of a song – “Gretchen am Spinnrade” – the author creates unique composition, organized by a circular symbol, borrowed from J. W. Goethe’s text. Using couplet structure as a foundation, F. Schubert creates the structure in a way, creating illusion of constant returning to the same thought, state, temporal dimension. The first parts of every couplet repeat, the second ones – integrate into a discrete, although definitively heading to a culmination, line of development. Thus, double musical time emerges simultaneously cyclical and founded on an attempt to achieve a goal. In the sonata Allegri, regarded in this article, the same phenomenon is revealed in interaction of classical algorithm of composition and functional peculiarities of recapitulations, which are transformed into variants of exposition. As an example of combination of couplet-born repetitions with throughout development we may name song “Morgengruss” from “Die schöne Müllerin”. The same method of stages in the exposition and recapitulation can be found in sonata Allegro of Sonata in C Minor. Polythematic strophic structure with throughout development is regarded on example of “Kriegers Ahnung” (lyricist Ludwig Rellstab) from “Der Schwanengesang”, which is compared to Andante from the before mentioned Sonata. Special attention is drawn to the cases in which cyclical features, characteristic for F. Schubert’s songs, find their way into sonata expositions and recapitulations. In the first movement of Sonata in B-flat Major these chapters of musical structures consist of three quite protracted episodes, which might be identified as first subject, second subject and codetta, respectively. Each of these episodes has its own key, image and logic of compositionally-dramaturgic process, while being marked by exhaustion of saying, which approximates the whole to a song cycle. The logic governing the succession of the episodes is founded not on causation (like in classical sonata expositions and recapitulations), but on the principles of switching from one lyrical state to another. The same patterns of structure are conspicuous in exposition and recapitulation of the first movement of Sonata in C Minor, in which the first section is marked by throughout development, the second one is a theme with two different variations, and the third one, the one recreating the process of rumination, with long pauses and fermatas, interrupting graduality of the movement, is founded on the contrast between playful and lyrical states. The outer movements of Sonata in A Major consist of several episodes. The first subject in ternary form has contrasting middle section; quite uncommon for F. Schubert linking episode dilates so much its function of “transition” is almost lost; enormous second subject eclipses the codetta in every section; it is an unique world, a palette of moods, images, musical events. Conclusions. Innovativity, characteristic for F. Schubert in the field of Romantic song, reveals itself not only in the spheres of images and emotions, musical language, interaction between vocal melody and piano part, but also in the organization of a structure. This allowed to re-evaluate means of organization of compositionally-dramaturgic process in piano sonatas by the composer as in the genre of instrumental music. While in the songs and song cycles these principles of structure were closely connected to extra-musical content, conditioned by it, in instrumental works, specifically, in piano sonatas, they became a feature of the musical content, immanent for music. This particularly helps to explain, why is it possible to use these principles without song-like intonations, usual for them. By the same token, even in this “isolated” variant they remind of their song origin, so songs and song cycles by F. Schubert become a “program” of his piano sonatas and works in another instrumental genres, in a similar fashion to opera, which has become crucial source for development of classical symphony.


10.31022/r012 ◽  
1972 ◽  
Author(s):  
Robert White

This edition presents the collected instrumental works of a central figure in the early development of English music, including pieces for lute, viols, and organ. Most of these works appear here for the first time in print.


10.31022/r003 ◽  
1967 ◽  
Author(s):  
Christopher Tye

In presenting all of Tye's instrumental works known to survive in complete form, this edition provides a fresh perspective on the output of a composer remembered chiefly for his vocal music. Scored for a consort of viols, these pieces reveal a flair for technical complexity, which suggests that the composer, here free of text-imposed restrictions, gladly undertook experiments denied him with a sung text. This edition includes twenty-one In Nomines, four Dum Transissets, and miscellaneous pieces for five voices.


2019 ◽  
Vol 1 (11) ◽  
pp. 9-27
Author(s):  
Marek Nahajowski

Cadence (ending) formulas are one of the most intriguing phenomena in music. They occur in works of all historical periods and styles and they have a variety of forms: from melodic and harmonic turns to rhythmic or even dynamic ones. However, this issue is important not only from the perspective of theory of music or composition technique but also performance practice as the way how a singer or instrument player understands the functioning of separate elements of a piece will impinge on the sound shape of the work presented to the public. Reading the extramusical message hidden in the structure of a piece should be regarded particularly significant for the interpretation of pieces written in times when adding precise performance guidelines in the score was not practiced. In case of compositions written in the 16th and the first half of the 17th centuries, the way how ending formulas functioned was a result of the specificity of that time’s modal system and the principles of polyphonic composition, in which the role of melodic (horizontal) thinking prevailed over the harmonic (vertical) one. The issue of cadences gains special importance while analysing instrumental works in which the absence of verbal text hinders the division of the piece into segments. It only becomes possible thanks to analysing the structure of the piece, including the allocation of modal ending formulas in separate voices of the composition. Howsoever the topic of cadences in music of the 16th and 17th centuries has been discussed many times in the literature on the subject, it has had no satisfactory presentation related to that time’s instrumental repertoire. The present article is an attempt to elaborate on the deliberations on the topic of modal cadence formulas in instrumental works from the 16th and the first half of the 17th centuries. Its first part has an introductory character and it touches on the notion of cadence in modern theoretical-musical and encyclopaedic texts compared to composition theory and practice in the Renaissance and early Baroque eras. The second part of the article is an analysis of selected instrumental works from the end of the 16th and the beginning of the 17th centuries meant for different types of line-ups – the four-voice canzona by Florentio Maschera, canzona by Girolamo Frescobaldi for solo instrument with basso continuo and one of the ricercati by Giovanni Bassano meant for solo melodic instrument without accompaniment.


Tempo ◽  
1973 ◽  
pp. 26-33
Author(s):  
Arnold Whittall

This year two important new instrumental works by Nicholas Maw have received their first performances: the Serenade for chamber orchestra (Singapore, 31 March) and Life Studies for 15 solo strings (Cheltenham, 9 July). With the Five Irish Songs for mixed chorus (Cork International Choral Festival, 4 May) and a new piano composition (Personae, London, 2 August), 1973 looks like being one of Maw's most productive years. Stylistically it may also prove to have been the most crucial since 1962, when Scenes and Arias was first heard. Even after a single performance, I think there can be no doubt that Life Studies is a remarkable and convincing composition which could inaugurate a new approach by Maw to the whole question of form in instrumental music.


2020 ◽  
Vol 26 (2) ◽  
Author(s):  
Jonathan Guez

The thematic organization of musical reprises and recapitulations has not received as much attention as that of expositions. One reason for this is the assumption that recapitulations are simply retracings of thematic paths already plotted in the exposition, with their tonal profiles adjusted to remain in the tonic. The present article seeks to complexify this view by devoting analytic and interpretive attention to a handful of refrains, reprises, and recapitulations that feature deletions of some of their referential thematic material. My primary claims are, first, that such recapitulatory compressions afford feelings of temporal and perspectival distortion (such as “too soon” or “too close” or “too large”) to listeners and to virtual protagonists, and second, that they work in concert with aspects of the presented content of the movements at hand—text, topic, mode, and so on—to project complex and multifaceted musical narratives. Examples come from poetry, song, and instrumental music and include Goethe's “Erster Verlust” and Schubert's setting of it (D. 226); Müller's “Täuschung” and “Die Nebensonnen” and Schubert's settings of them (D. 911); and Schubert's Allegro in A minor for Four hands, “Lebensstürme,” D. 947.


Tempo ◽  
1953 ◽  
pp. 30-37
Author(s):  
Hubert Foss

The programme of the first concert of Delius's works, at the old St. James's Hall in May, 1899, contains little of instrumental music that is outstanding. There are some rarely beautiful songs, there is a remarkable selection from the opera Koanga; but of the instrumental works only one remains which we sometimes hear still performed today. Over the Hills and Far Away is a characteristic and indeed beautiful piece, and were it to stand alone would arouse the interest and admiration of perceptive students; for us its interest is in part historical, as the earliest essay in Delius's mature style, in part aesthetic as something like an elaborated sketch for the greater works that were to follow during the ensuing twenty years. That same year, 1899, on the other hand, itself produced the first of the later masterpieces—Paris.


Author(s):  
Valeriya Martynova

Background. Oboe as a concert instrument has passed a rather long path of evolution, on which it has been improved according the parameters of its design, the technique of virtuoso play and the requests of composer writing. The concentrate of universal capabilities of the soloing (concerting) oboe is the concerto genre, in which all these parameters are combined in an integral entire. The objective of this article is to sequentially consider the components of the concerting oboe “image”, such as timbre and articulation-and-stroke technique, including typical and latestmethods of writing and playing. The methodology of researching based on the set of such approaches to the phenomenon under study as historical-and-genetic, deductive, system-and-structural. Results. Based on the consideration of the concerting principle in its historical and stylistic dynamics, the article reveals the specifications of timbre-and-technical means characterized the oboe in various genre forms of the concert. The data on the specifics of the oboe effects found in the concert music for this instrument are also systematized. The latest methods of playing are characterized, and a refined classification of multiphonics used in modern oboe practice is proposed. It is noted that the concept of concerting style first appeared in the Baroque era, when instruments and voices in the new homophonic practice began to reach the level of soloing. At the same time, the principles of concerting manner as a dialogue in various forms of its implementation were formed, among which the form of group or collective concerting represented by the genre of concerto grosso was primary in instrumental music. Within this form, the concerting oboe stands out, and for a long time it participated in a trio of soloists who performed in this genre as concertino opposing to grosso – the mass of the rest of the orchestra. The article identifies the main specific features of the timbre and technique associated with the oboe design (double reed) and the performer’s breathing (gradual exhalation). Particular attention is paid to the oboe effects technique, as well as a set of means for sound-producing and sound-leading characterized this instrument in its comparison with others belonging to the same family (wood winds) or to others (bowed string, brass instruments). On this basis, a description of the performing means of expressiveness of the oboe is proposed, including not only the specific (timbre-and-acoustic), but also the universal components that the oboe takes over from others instruments playing with him in an ensemble or an orchestra. In particular, among such there is the vibrato technique, which came to the oboe practice from the string instruments, as well as the two main groups of effects – connected (legato and its types), divided (staccato, spiccato, martele) and the special methods of playing adapted “for the oboe”, in particular, pizzicato and “slap”. (For an oboe, the “slap” is a sharp tongue strike on the reed with a simultaneous key strike or without it, as well as a key strike without blowing air in). Among the techniques that have the specific forms of reproduction on the oboe, the article discusses tremolo of different interval volumes, to which a special fingering is adjusted; frullato (the “oral” kind with using of the “r” sound like in a trumpet, and “overtone” kind producing by a performer’s throat); glissando, existing on the oboe in two versions, labial and finger. As examples of the latest methods of playing specified to the concerting oboe practice, those are discussed that contribute to the timbre re-coloring of the same sound or the sound set that significantly expands the sound-and-color capabilities of the instrument, and promotes to the process of its further universalization. These, for example, are bisbigliando, the technique that came from the harp practice, when an oboist gets the same sound in different ways; variety kinds of multiphonics; smorzato (a slow fluctuation of sound volume), oscillato (a similar change in pitch). Also the technique of doubletone is mentioned, when the oboist sings along with playing, which allows to produce consonances (intervals and even chords) on the instrument. Conclusions. The results of the research confirm the fact that the solo concerting oboe was formed in the process of a long historical and stylistic evolution, which is reflected in the genre of concerto for oboe, where the timbre-and-technical capabilities of the instrument are most complete. The complex of technique effects as the component of musical expressiveness was especially importance in formation of the cumulative sound image of the “universal” oboe. Thus, the concerting oboe was formed in line with the general processes of the development of musical thinking, which was connected with the practice of concert style, the principle of concerting as a musical and aesthetic category. Reflecting in different genre forms the development of the concert music, collective and solo, the oboe “sound image” has acquired by now the quality of genuine universalism, while retaining its specificity, connected with the features of its performing factor. The prospects for further study of the stated topic are seen, firstly, in the concretization of the stylistics of the concert oboe on examples of works of the concert genre; it will be necessary to build a certain logic of selection of material, which should not only illustrate the historical process, but also contain characteristics of individual creative embodiments of the “image” of the oboe by composers and performers. Secondly, they may be connected with the possibilities of projection in the proposed research methodology onto the concert music for others instruments.


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