scholarly journals The specifics of the ironic in the Marc-André Hamelin’s creativity on the example of “Variations on a Theme of Paganini”

2019 ◽  
Vol 52 (52) ◽  
pp. 132-144
Author(s):  
R. Nikolenko
Keyword(s):  
First Century ◽  
Musical Composition ◽  
Modern World ◽  
Musical Language ◽  
Wide Audience ◽  
Solo Piano ◽  
Niccolo Paganini ◽  
Work Variations ◽  
Solo Violin ◽  
Variations On A Theme

Background. From the era of romanticism to the present day there is a stable interest of world-renowned virtuoso musicians to such kind of creativity as transcription, which makes it possible to speak not only as a performer, but also to express themselves in the composer’s perspective. Many prominent pianists of different eras have made a significant contribution to this branch of musical art, we need only recall the names of F. Liszt, K. Tausig G. von Bulow, F. Busoni, L. Godowsky, Vladimir Horowitz, Glenn Gould. Among artists of our time, it should be noted the Canadian piano virtuoso and composer Marc-Andre Hamelin, for which transcriptions are characterized by a harmonious combination of technical complications and modernization of the selected thematic material, which provides his music a wide audience. A striking confirmation of this are the thousands of views of his transcriptions on the channel in YouTube. Perhaps one of the secrets of such popularity is not only the actualization of the musical language of the original, but also The article is devoted to the specifics of the ironic, as one of the manifestations of the comic, in creative heritage of the world-famous Canadian pianist and composer Marc-André Hamelin On material Of “Variations on a Theme of Paganini”, which are the most illustrative example in this perspective, the features of the artist’s work with a quote thematic material. Identifies certain dominants of the composer’s style, among them: the destruction elected canons, their modification and approach to the aesthetics of the modern world perception through the use of the musical language of the XX–XXI centuries, as well as the desire for harmonious unification, combining styles of different eras within one work. Objectives. The object of research is a musical composition; its subject of research is the identification of the specifics of the irony in the composer’s style. The purpose of the article is to consider the trends of manifestation of irony and the stylistic orientations in the composer’s work of Hamelin, referring to the most indicative in this aspect of the work “Variations on a Theme of Paganini”. Methodology. Structural-functional and genre-style methods are applied in the consideration of the compositional and stylistic specificity of “Variations on a Theme of Paganini”. To identify the peculiarities of the composer’s work with quotations, the method of comparative analysis was used. The methodological basis consists of the concepts of postmodern citation put forward by such leading researchers and representatives of postmodernism as Umberto Eco and Sigmund Bauman. Presenting the main material. The figure of Niccolo Paganini, enveloped in a mysterious halo, attracted the attention of contemporaries and many artists of subsequent generations, and his creative heritage found a significant response in the musical environment. One of the most famous works of N. Paganini has a cycle “Twenty-four capris” for solo violin, among which the most frequently used for a variety of composer’s interpretations was the theme of Caprice No. 24. Interesting is the fact that it remains relevant, continuing even in the twenty-first century to attract attention. A striking example of this is the Hamelin’s “Variations on a Theme of Paganini” (2011). This work, written for solo piano, is a dedication to the American composer, pianist, conductor, teacher Yehud Weiner and his wife Susan Dewen-Weiner. In his interpretation of Caprice 24, the composer chooses a free interpretation of his figurative and substantial side. This is evidenced not only by the increase in the number of variations (14 instead of 11), but also many other aspects that appear at different levels of composition of the whole. It turns out the specificity of the composer’s work with the quote material, which permeates the whole work, the tendency to its ironic interpretation, as well as harmonious coexistence within the work of styles of different eras, their combination. Results. This work is one of the most striking embodiments of the ironic in the work of the Canadian artist. Here is typical for his style work with the used material quote, the basis of which – the destruction of the selected sample, bringing atypical for the original harmonic, melodic, rhythmic turns. Most often such “curvature” is used at the first posted quote topics. The composer tends to synthesize several styles within the framework of the work, this is often achieved by combining one of the styles of past eras with the styles of modernity, while not contrasting, isolating, contrasting them, but creating a melodic, tonal-harmonic and compositional integrity. Conclusion. Hamelin’s “Variations on a Theme of Paganini” represent a vivid manifestation of the ideas of postmodern worldview in music, which is based on the ironic attitude to the sample of the past.

Denouement: World Politics, Systemic Leadership, and Climate Change

2018 ◽  
Author(s):  
William R. Thompson ◽  
Leila Zakhirova
Keyword(s):  
Climate Change ◽  
Global Warming ◽  
World Politics ◽  
First Century ◽  
Modern World ◽  
Climate Fluctuations ◽  
The Past ◽  
Agrarian Economy ◽  
Historical Processes

In this final chapter, we conclude by recapitulating our argument and evidence. One goal of this work has been to improve our understanding of the patterns underlying the evolution of world politics over the past one thousand years. How did we get to where we are now? Where and when did the “modern” world begin? How did we shift from a primarily agrarian economy to a primarily industrial one? How did these changes shape world politics? A related goal was to examine more closely the factors that led to the most serious attempts by states to break free of agrarian constraints. We developed an interactive model of the factors that we thought were most likely to be significant. Finally, a third goal was to examine the linkages between the systemic leadership that emerged from these historical processes and the global warming crisis of the twenty-first century. Climate change means that the traditional energy platforms for system leadership—coal, petroleum, and natural gas—have become counterproductive. The ultimate irony is that we thought that the harnessing of carbon fuels made us invulnerable to climate fluctuations, while the exact opposite turns out to be true. The more carbon fuels are consumed, the greater the damage done to the atmosphere. In many respects, the competition for systemic leadership generated this problem. Yet it is unclear whether systemic leadership will be up to the task of resolving it.

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.

Elliott Carter's Harvest Home

Tempo ◽  
1988 ◽  
pp. 2-13 ◽  
Author(s):  
David Schiff
Keyword(s):  
Middle Years ◽  
Solo Piano ◽  
Elliott Carter ◽  
Rocky Soil ◽  
Solo Violin ◽  
As If

ApproachingHisEightiethBirthday, Elliott Carter has acquired a new fluency, as if composing had suddenly—finally—become easy. In his middle years Carter felt compelled to exhaust a musical vocabulary with each composition. Since the solo piano Night Fantasies of 1980, however, he has based a series of widely different works on similar premises: after years of ploughing through rocky soil it was now time for the harvest. As an overflow of this bounty Carter has produced a new (for him) genre: short occasional pieces of three to six minutes in duration. Along with the five major works composed since Night Fantasies, there are seven new short works for media ranging from solo violin to large orchestra. The inventiveness and high spirits of his recent music may call to mind those other wonders of a secondyouth, Falstaff and Agon.

scholarly journals ACTUAL DISCOURE ABOUT TIPES FND DEVELOPMENT TENDENCIES NATIONAL STATE

2013 ◽  
pp. 195-203
Author(s):  
E. G. Ponomareva
Keyword(s):  
Political Process ◽  
World Politics ◽  
The State ◽  
First Century ◽  
Modern World ◽  
Nation State ◽  
Social Communities ◽  
Nation States ◽  
International Systems

The processes of globalization have determined significant changes in the prerogatives of nation states. In the twenty-first century the state no longer acts as a sole subject having a monopoly of integrating the interests of large social communities and representing them on the world stage. An ever increasing role in the global political process is played by transnational and supranational participants. However, despite the uncertainty and ambiguity of the ways of the development of the modern world, it can be argued that in the foreseeable future it is the states that will maintain the role of the main actors in world politics and bear the responsibility for global security and development. All this naturally makes urgent the issues related to the search for optimal models of nation state development. The article analyzes approaches to understanding patterns, problems and prospects of the development of this institution existing in modern political science. These include the concept of "dimensionality" based on the parameters of scale (the size of the territory) of the states and their functions in the international systems, as well as the "political order". In the latter case the paper analyzes four models: the nation-state, statenation, consociation, quasi-state. The author's position consists in the substantiation of the close dependence of the success of a model of the state on its inner nature, i.e. statehood. On the basis of the elaborated approach the author understands statehood as "the result of historical, economic, political and foreign policy activity of a particular society in order to create a relatively rigid political framework that provides spatial, institutional and functional unity, that is, the condition of the society’s own state, national political system." Thus statehood acts as a qualitative feature of the state.

A Thousand Years

2019 ◽  
pp. 369-372
Author(s):  
Michael A. Gomez
Keyword(s):  
Real World ◽  
West African ◽  
First Century ◽  
Modern World ◽  
African History ◽  
Human Origins ◽  
Global Development ◽  
Artistic Creativity ◽  
National Movement ◽  
The World

This epilogue discusses how, some four hundred years after its fall, the world was reminded of imperial Songhay's former glory when, in early January of 2012, the National Movement for the Liberation of Azawād—or the MNLA—attacked the towns of Menaka and Aguelhok, leading to the collapse of the national army in northern Mali. However, the twenty-first century was not the first instance in which the modern world reflected on West African anterior history, though prior occasions were largely artistic in nature. In any case, through both real-world events and artistic creativity, enactments of West Africa's medieval past have filtered into contemporary consciousness. Even so, in turning from the popular to the academic, histories purporting to convey a sense of global development since antiquity continue to ignore Africa's contributions, not merely as the presumed site of human origins, but as a full participant in its cultural, technological, and political innovations. The epilogue then summarizes the full trajectory of West African history examined in the previous chapters.

Carter, Elliott (Cook Jr.) (1908–2012)

2018 ◽  
Author(s):  
Brenda Ravenscroft
Keyword(s):  
New York ◽  
English Literature ◽  
Modern World ◽  
Musical Language ◽  
Charles Ives ◽  
Harvard College ◽  
Elliott Carter ◽  
Gustav Holst ◽  
Nadia Boulanger ◽  
Walter Piston

Born in 1908 into a wealthy New York City family, Elliott Carter enjoyed a cosmopolitan childhood, spending time in Europe and learning French at an early age. The composer Charles Ives mentored the young Carter, taking him to concerts in New York and encouraging his developing interest in music. Carter’s childhood, characterized by immersion in a culturally enriched environment and exposure to the modern world, provided the elements from which his artistic aesthetic and musical language would later be forged. When Carter entered Harvard College, he focused his studies on English literature, Greek, and philosophy, although musical activities continued in the form of lessons with Walter Piston and Gustav Holst, as well as singing with the Harvard Glee Club. Carter completed a master’s degree in music at Harvard in 1932, after which he moved to Paris to study composition with Nadia Boulanger for three years. He received a doctorate in music from the École Normale de Musique in Paris in 1935.

Modern-World Archaeology

2014 ◽  
Author(s):  
Charles E. Orser
Keyword(s):  
Twentieth Century ◽  
Historical Archaeology ◽  
First Century ◽  
Modern World ◽  
World Archaeology ◽  
The World ◽  
The Creation ◽  
Twenty First Century ◽  
Historical Antecedents

Historical archaeology has grown exponentially since its inception. By the beginning of the second decade of the twenty-first century, practitioners of the field had conducted research throughout the world in locales only imagined in the mid-twentieth century. The spread of historical archaeology in Europe, Asia, and Africa—and other places with long, rich documentary histories—has meant that two senses of ‘historical archaeology’ now exist. The creation of modern-world archaeology seeks to define an archaeology of the post-Columbian world as an archaeology explicitly engaged in investigating the historical antecedents of our present age. This chapter explains the rationale behind the creation of modern-world archaeology, outlines some of its central tenets, and provides a brief example of one subject of relevance to the field.

scholarly journals THE ROLE OF ZAKHAR PRILEPIN IN MODERN RUSSIAN LITERATURE

2019 ◽  
pp. 234-244
Author(s):  
Madinabonu AHMEDOVA
Keyword(s):  
General Public ◽  
Russian Literature ◽  
First Century ◽  
Human Values ◽  
Modern World ◽  
New Realism ◽  
Essential Components ◽  
Literary Process ◽  
Modern Russian

The article is devoted to the problem of the evolution of the literary hero and the types of heroes in modern Russian literature of the XXI century. The admiration of the person of the person being described and the desire to redirect this feeling to the reader make the style of the work of Zakhar Prilepin realistic through the prism of modernity (neorealism). The writer sets himself the task of telling about the fate of a modern person who faces many difficulties to squeeze in the modern world where human values have already changed, transformed beyond recognition than they were in the literature of the 19th and 20th centuries. Zakhar Prilepin is gradually moving to comprehending a more global problem: is it possible in the conditions where absolutely everyone is wearing a bit of hell in himself. The writer seeks to get an answer to this question on a truly epochal, historical scale.This article also discusses the role of Zakhar Prilepin in the context of modern Russian literature. He writes willingly and openly on topics of concern to the general public. One of the essential components of such statements is his reflections on classical and modern Russian literature, showing love or, on the contrary, dislike for the work of this or that author.The aim of the work is to determine the transformation of modern Russian prose on the example of the works of contemporary Russian writer Zakhar Prilepin. His views on the formation and development of the literary process in the twenty-first century, explores the peculiarities of the hero and the specifics of the writer's artistic world based on the work and literary analyzes. Types of heroes’ characteristic of the prose of this neorealist writer: the hero-provincial, the rebellious hero, the intellectual hero and others. The article attempts to analyze the main features of the imaginative system in the works of Z. Prilepin in the context of the traditions of the new realism (neorealism). Мақола адабий қаҳрамон эволюцияси муаммоси ва ХХI аср замонавий рус адабиётидаги қаҳрамонлар турларини ўрганишга бағишланган. Захар Прилепиндаги таърифлаётган шахснинг ҳайрати ва ички дунёсини ёритиб бериш истаги ва уни китобхонга етказиш учун қўллаган услуби асарларини замон (неореализм) призмаси орқали реализмга олиб ўтади. Ёзувчи ўз олдига ХIХ ва ХХ аср адабиётларидаги инсоният қадриятлари ХХI асрга келиб мутлақоўзгариб, таниб бўлмас даражага етганини замонавий одамнинг тақдири орқалий ёритиб бериш вазифасини қўяди. Захар Прилепин аста-секин янада глобал муаммони англашга интилмоқда: мутлақо ҳамма ўзини дўзах азобига солаётган шароитда бу мумкинми? Ёзувчи ушбу саволгзамон ва тарих миқёсида жавоб олишга интилади.Ушбу мақолада замонавий рус ёзувчиси Захар Прилепиннинг замонавий рус адабиётида тутган ўрни муҳокама қилинади. У кенг жамоатчиликни қизиқтирган мавзуларда очиқ ёзади. Бундай баёнотларнинг муҳим таркибий қисмлариданбири, бу –унинг классик ва замонавий рус адабиётига бўлган муҳаббатини акс эттириши ёки аксинча у ёки бу муаллифнинг ишини ёқтирмаслигидир.Ушбу мақоланинг мақсади замонавий рус ёзувчиси Захар Прилепиннинг ижоди мисолида замонавий рус насрнинг ўзгаришини аниқлашдир. Унинг ХХI аср адабий жараёнининг шаклланиши ва ривожланиши ҳақидаги фикрлари, қаҳрамонининг ўзига хос хусусиятлари ва ёзувчининг ижодий дунёсининг ўзига хос хусусиятларини кўрсатишдир. Бу неореализм оқимига мансуб ёзувчининг насрига хос қаҳрамонлар турлари: провинциал қаҳрамон (қишлоқ аҳолиси), исёнкор қаҳрамон, интеллектуал қаҳрамон ва бошқалар. Муаллиф З. Прилепин асарларидаги образлар тизимига хос хусусиятларни янги реализм (неореализм) анъаналари контекстида таҳлил қилган. Статья посвящена проблеме эволюции литературного героя и типов героев в современной русской литературе XXI века. Восхищение личностью описываемогочеловека и желание переадресовать это чувство читателю делают стилистику произведении Захара Прилепина реалистическими через призму современности (неореализма). Писатель ставит перед собой задачу рассказать о судьбе современной личности сталкивающегося с множеством затруднений чтобы выжать в современном мире где уже человеческие ценности изменились, трансформировались до неузнаваемости чем были в литературе XIXи ХХ веке. Захар Прилепин постепенно переходит к постижению более глобальной проблемы: возможно ли то же самое условиях, где частичку ада в себе носит абсолютно каждый. Ответ на этот вопрос писатель стремится получить в поистине эпохальном, историческом масштабе.А такжев данной статье рассматривается роль Захара Прилепина в контексте современной русской литературы. Он пишет охотно и открыто на темы, волнующие широкую общественность. Одной из существенных составляющих такого рода высказываний становятся его размышления о классической и современной русской литературе, проявляющие любовь или наоборот, неприязнь, к творчеству того или иного автора.Целью работы является определить трансформацию современной русской прозы на примере творчества современного писателя России – Захара Прилепина. Его взгляды на формирование и развитие литературного процесса вХХIвеке; исследуются особенности героя и специфика художественного мира писателяна основе произведении и литературных анализов. Типы героев; характерные для прозы этого писателя-нео реали зма : герой-провинциал; бунтующий герой; герой-интеллигент и другие.В статье осуществляется попытка анализа основных особенностей образной системы в творчестве З. Прилепинав контексте традиций нового реализма (неореализм).

scholarly journals The doctrines of original sin and the virgin birth: divine revelation or human construct?

2009 ◽  
Vol 30 (1) ◽  
Author(s):  
I. J. J. Spangenberg
Keyword(s):  
South African ◽  
World View ◽  
Original Sin ◽  
First Century ◽  
Modern World ◽  
Divine Revelation ◽  
Grand Narrative ◽  
Virgin Birth ◽  
The Enlightenment ◽  
The One

Two South African theologians, Ben du Toit and Anton van Niekerk, recently published books in which they argued that postmodern believers can no longer subscribe to the doctrines of original sin and the virgin birth. According to them both these doctrines reflect a pre-modern world-view which should be regarded as outdated. However, they would not like to take leave of the grand narrative of Christianity. There are some fundamental flaws in the reasoning of both scholars. The doctrine of the virgin birth is intertwined with the doctrine of original sin, and both are important to the orthodox doctrine of salvation. As it is not viable or consistent to tamper with some of the orthodox doctrines and try to keep the rest intact, we are left with two options, either to discard the whole system and start afresh, or to try and keep the whole package intact. However, biblical research since the Enlightenment has ruled out the second option. The paper argues in support of this case and attempts to offer a different way forward for Christians living in the twenty-first century than the one offered by Du Toit and Van Niekerk.

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