Die Gehörbildung ist traditionellerweise ein Fach, das sich nicht nur dem Auditiven bzw. dem Klanglichen widmet, sondern das ein Verhältnis zwischen Klang und Notation aufbaut und eine Verbindung zwischen Theorie und Wahrnehmung herstellt, bis kein Unterschied zwischen Lesen und Hören (Spielen, Singen, Komponieren, Dirigieren) bzw. Denken und Hören spürbar ist. Auge und Ohr sind in […]
This article is a part of a bigger study of communal music amateur activity in Bulgaria by the time of socialism – directed mostly towards the link between the “samodeynost” and national music folklore. This time period is related entirely with the time of the Committee for science, art and culture’s (CSAC) activity, which coincides […]
Creative contacts between the young Shostakovich and Russian art avant-guarde representatives in the first decades of the 20th century is an interesting research object for the contemporary music science. The present article analyzes their technical interaction, displayed in the opera “Nose.” This work’s avant-guarde essence is revealed together with its historical fate and development of […]
This article is a part of an extensive work devoted to the phenomenon of enharmony, that aims to achieve a complex overview on the subject. For that end, the “enharmonic” problem is being surveyed both from the traditional, narrowly-specialized angle within the theory of modulation, and also from the theory of musical temperament, assuming their […]
How can the words “music” and “Renaissance” enter into a meaningful relation? What sense the phrase “Renaissance music” may express? Does it mean a determined style or technique of composition, or does it point to an idea common to all the arts of an epoch? Does this phrase defend itself on equal terms with such […]
1894: “L’après-midi d’un faune”, 1912: “Pierrot lunaire”, 1913: “Le sacre du printemps”. Three dates and three works that are counted as the pickup measure of 20th century music. Since then numerous works have been created in a wide array of style and music expression: variety that seems to impede this period’s systematization. Still: is such […]