Journal articles: 'Sonatas (Piano) Analysis'

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Kemova, Ksenia S. "Sonatas for Piano Four Hands by Muzio Clementi." Observatory of Culture 18, no. 5 (October 29, 2021): 506–19. http://dx.doi.org/10.25281/2072-3156-2021-18-5-506-519.

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The article considers seven sonatas for piano four hands by Muzio Clementi. The relevance of the research is accounted for by the attention paid by performing piano duos to the four-hand repertoire in its diversity. In this connection, there is a necessity of a theoretical analysis of this topic, which has not yet been discussed in music science. The article aims to trace the evolution of Clementi’s sonatas for piano four hands, outline the historical context of their creation, and identify their typical features. The research suggests a two-aspect approach to the analysis of the sonatas: they are looked at from the point of view of the evolution of the composer’s style in the period 1779—1786, as well as in terms of the thematic process, sonata structure and four-hands piano texture.Clementi’s duet sonatas (belonging to the number of early four-hand works, together with the sonatas by W.A. Mozart, J.C. Bach, Ch. Burney) form a line reflecting his life impressions and representing his creative search. The first three sonatas for piano four hands — as an integral part of op. 3 — were written and published in London at the time when Clementi was gaining a reputation of a virtuoso and teacher. The sonata that opens op. 6 appeared in Paris, where Clementi started his European tour; it reflects his interaction with the contemporary music phenomena. Op. 14, which consists of three sonatas for piano four hands, was inspired by young composer’s romantic experience during his stay in Lyon (it is dedicated to Maria-Victoria Imbert-Colomes); the work sums up his achievements in this genre. Researchers list the sonatas of op. 14, which are full-fledged concert works, among Clementi’s best works and rank them on a par with four-hand sonatas by Mozart. In general, the sonatas show a tendency towards the unity of form, common thematic features within a piece, diversity of texture.It is fair to say that the sonatas for piano four hands, as well as the composer’s solo sonatas, became for Clementi a field of experiments in the sphere of piano — an instrument to which he devoted his performing, teaching and, eventually, business activities. The temperament and expression of Clementi’s sonatas, combined with their virtuosity, makes them concert compositions that can sound impressively on the big stage in the modern situation. At the same time, they can also be an excellent training material for performers of different levels.

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Lebedeva, N. S. "Sonatas № 2 end № 9 as Milestones in the Evolution of the Piano Style of A. Scriabin." Culture of Ukraine, no. 71 (April 2, 2021): 86–93. http://dx.doi.org/10.31516/2410-5325.071.11.

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The article is devoted to the consideration of two piano sonatas by A. Scriabin, representing in a complex the peculiarities of his piano style as an integral phenomenon. The two-part sonata No. 2, classified as a musical landscape, is considered in comparison with the performing versions proposed by S. Richter and V. Ashkenazy. The one-part Sonata No. 9, called “Black Mass”, is considered in comparison with the performing interpretations of V. Sofronitsky and V. Horowitz. It is noted that the Scriabin’s piano style is inherently mixed, compositional and performing, and its grandiose macrocycle of 10 sonatas appears as a compendium of the principles of piano thinking for the post-romantic era. The universalism of Scriabin’s writing is confirmed using the comparative method of analysis, for the first time proposed in this article in relation to the works under consideration. It was revealed that the style in music appears as “a system of stable features of musical phenomena, a way of their differentiation and integration at various levels” (S. Tyshko). The style is distinguished by a tendency to identify the individual, unique, “humanistic” in the broad sense of the word and has a hierarchical structure, within which there is a level characterized as “the style of any kind of music” (V. Kholopova), among which the piano style stands out. Scriabin’s piano sonatas combine the categories of “instrument style”, “author’s style” and “performer’s style” at the style level. It was revealed that the figurative and artistic duality of the Second sonata is reflected in the interpretations presented by S. Richter (the “classical” version, focused on the exact observance of the author’s text remarques, sounding in some places even like in Beethoven’s works), and V. Ashkenazy (the “romantic” version containing a whole complex of articulatory means added by the performer, most of all close to Chopin’s “sonic placers”). The main factor that determines the peculiarities of the performance of the Ninth sonata is the transfer of the playing of harmonic timbre-colors, in which the melodic horizontal turns out to be inert in itself and manifests itself only in harmonic lighting in combination with articulatory attributes. It is noted that A. Scriabin creates in the Ninth sonata actually a special type of texture, accentuating the parameter of depth, based on the stereophonic effect “further — closer”. In the conclusions on the article, it is noted that the stylistic “arch” of two Scriabin’s sonatas highlighted in it helps to comprehend the holistic character and contextual connections of the sonata-piano style of the great Russian composer-innovator, to find “keys” to actual interpretations of his other piano sonatas, an example of which is analyzed interpretation samples of such masters as V. Sofronitsky and V. Horowitz (Ninth sonata) and S. Richter and V. Ashkenazy (Second sonata).

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Anatolii, Tarabanov. "Performance and existential chronotope of clavier sonatas of the late Baroque and Classicism." Problems of Interaction Between Arts, Pedagogy and the Theory and Practice of Education 61, no. 61 (December 31, 2021): 50–75. http://dx.doi.org/10.34064/khnum1-61.03.

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Some spatial-time characteristics of the selected keyboard sonatas by D. Scarlatti, С. P. E. Bach, J. Haydn, W. A. Mozart, and M. Clementi are revealed from the viewpoint of a piano performer. The term “chronotope”, used in the research, is interpreted in two main meanings: as an existence of the piano sonata phenomenon in space-time continuum in the context of listeners’ perception and comprehension, as well as a specific performer’s feeling of time and space in sonatas by the mentioned composers. The purpose of the study is to identify the peculiarities of the performance chronotope of these works that are relevant for the modern pianist in the context of social existence and the demand for the sonata genre in the 21st century, including attempts of its authentic interpretations, on the basis of the analysis and concert performance of selected clavier sonatas of the late Baroque and Classicism epochs. Experimental8 and analytical research methods with elements of comparativistics allow examining the chronotope of the selected keyboard sonatas in the whole creative-scientific process that determines the scientific novelty of the study. Results. Today, the problem of perception of musical classics in terms of preparedness of the listener, their ability to decipher the “sign system” of a musical work is very relevant. There are also not enough listeners of academic music, if taking into account all those people with an access to concerts halls and Internet. Therefore, attention of broad public to academic music is to be aroused. One of the most crucial places in solution of this problem belongs to the sonata genre as an organizing basis opposing contemporary human society multidirectional dissipation. With regard to its perfect structured composition principles, the piano sonata can be of great importance for the reconstructing of architectonic thinking patterns in listener’s minds. In order to fulfill such a difficult task successfully, a lot of new live performances of proficient pianists are needed. This can help the audience gain listening experience and attract probable admirers to their own musical practicing. Some characteristics of the performance chronotope of baroque and classical sonatas, such as interaction and interbalancing of statics and dynamics; organizing function of performance time in music forming; metrorhythmic performance inertia; continuity of the music thought development, necessity of performer’s anticipation, were defined with the help of the experimental-analytical method. Conclusion. The found characteristics of piano sonatas chronotope can be used both on the stage of conceiving a mission of music interpretation and during musical trainings and a concert performance itself.

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Serhiі, Dikarev. "Genre and style specifics of Sonata for Double Bass and Piano by Paul Hindemith." Aspects of Historical Musicology 24, no. 24 (October 13, 2021): 127–47. http://dx.doi.org/10.34064/khnum2-24.07.

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Statement of the problem. The works of Paul Hindemith, one of the most outstanding composers of the twentieth century, is distinguished by its universality. P. Hindemith is known as the author of a large number of sonatas for various instruments, among which is Sonata for Double Bass and Piano. The genre and style specificity of P. Hindemith’s chamber sonatas cannot be considered in isolation from the peculiarities of the instruments chosen by the composer, the sound image of which contributed to the formation of certain specific genre features. Sonata for Double Bass and Piano, which became the culmination of the development of double bass music in the composer’s work, can be considered indicative in this respect. Analysis of recent research and publications. There is a great deal of research works devoted to P. Hindemit’s compositions, particularly chamber sonatas, as well as to the peculiarities of his style. One of the most fundamental works is the monograph by T. Levaya and O. Leontieva (1974), which deals with the works of the composer. Among other researchers who turned to the work of Hindemith, we should mention B. Asafev (1975), V. Polyakov (1987), T. Morgunova (2000), V. Batanov (2016). Despite the fact that the stylistic and genre principles of P. Hindemith’s work are outlined in detail in the works of domestic musicologists, most researchers have overlooked the Sonata for Double Bass and Piano by P. Hindemith, which certainly deserves a detailed analytical understanding both in the context of the genre and in terms of the development of double bass performance. Main objective of the study. Today, Sonata for Double Bass and Piano by Paul Hindemith, the performance of which requires significant technical and artistic skill from double bass players, occupies an important place in the double bass repertoire, which is why this article is relevant. The purpose of the article is to determine the genre and style specifics of Sonata for Double Bass and Piano by P. Hindemith in order to further understand the development of solo and orchestral double bass means of expression and rapidly increase the repertoire for double bass in modern art. The scientific novelty of the article lies in the insufficient study of P.Hindemith’s double bass work in the context of Ukrainian double bass school. As a result of the structural-compositional and genre analysis it was possible to conclude about the uniqueness of Sonata for Double Bass and Piano by P. Hindemith as a vivid example of the composer’s search for non-standard means of expression, which lies in choosing the timbre of the solo instrument and the specifics of formative factors. The research methodology includes the following scientific methods: ● historiographic approach (in the aspect of clarifying the data on the double bass compositions by P. Hindemith); ● stylistic approach (in connection with the study of the composer’s work); ● genre approach (which is necessary for referring to certain genres of P. Hindemith’s work); ек ● structural and functional approach (which is used in analytical descriptions); ● comparative, which is applied in connection with the study of different editions of Sonata for Double Bass and Piano by P. Hindemith. Results. In the course of the study, a detailed structural and compositional analysis of P. Hindemith’s Sonata for Double Bass and Piano was carried out, as well as a comparative analysis of two editions of this sonata. The filling of the classical sonata form with modern musical language, the appeal to the means of polyphonic music, the introduction of the genre features of the instrumental concerto, the traditional German song Lied and operatic intonations make this work a vivid example of neoclassicism in the repertoire of double bass players around the world. The varied palette of lines and the flexibility of the imaginative sphere of the Sonata generalize the long-term composer’s search for individual means of expression in contrabass music. Conclusions. The result of the evolutionary path traversed by the double bass from a modest instrument of a symphony orchestra to a brilliant solo instrument was Sonata for Double Bass and Piano – a vivid example of P. Hindemith’s chamber work, which embodied the features of the composer’s mature period. Sonata for Double Bass and Piano by P. Hindemith poses difficult technical and artistic tasks for the performers, the solution of which must be associated not only with the use of all the skills and abilities of the musician, but also with a deep understanding of the internal structure and specifics of the compositional and dramatic solution of the author’s intention.

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Anatolii, Tarabanov. "Performance Chronotope in the Piano Sonatas by Beethoven (op. 27 No. 2) and Schubert (D. 958)." Problems of Interaction Between Arts, Pedagogy and the Theory and Practice of Education 62, no. 62 (September 16, 2022): 55–78. http://dx.doi.org/10.34064/khnum1-62.04.

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The article examines the specifics of the performance chronotope (time-space) of two masterpieces written by outstanding composers-contemporaries, whose lifetime is characterized by a gradual transition from the classical to the romantic style. Its essential characteristics and the significance of their awareness by the pianist-performer in the practice of working at a musical piece are highlighted. The “performance chronotope” is one of the parameters involved in the field of contemporary music-performance interpretation (Nikolaievska, 2020: 144). This publication is related to our previous work, where space-time characteristics of clavier sonatas by D. Scarlatti, С. Ph. E. Bach, J. Haydn, W. A. Mozart, and M. Clementi were revealed from the viewpoint of a piano performer (Tarabanov, 2021). Some parameters of the performance chronotope that have been outlined before – interaction and mutual balance of statics and dynamics, organizing function of performance time in sound musical form, metrorhythmic performance inertia, continuity of space-time and performance prediction (anticipation) – are supplemented by others, such as performance understanding of the form through working at details, and psychological space-time of the performer (as one of the components of the performance chronotope of the work). This is attributable to new interpretative tasks of the pianist in Beethoven’s and Schubert’s Sonatas under consideration. These works have not yet been the subject of analysis from the standpoint of performance chronotope characteristics, which, along with the use of an experimental research method (with the involvement of the author’s experience in concert performance of the considered works10), determined the scientific novelty of the presented study. The results of the study are supposed to be helpful for piano performers in their learning of these works and similar ones. It is especially relevant, because the greatest composer of piano sonatas, Ludwig van Beethoven, is in the spotlight all the time. His so-named “Moonlight” Sonata (op. 27 No. 2) continues to attract new generations of listeners, performers, and researchers (Rosen, 2002; Waltz, 2007; Gordon, 2017, and others). Beethoven’s direct successor, Franz P. Schubert created no less fascinating works in the genre of piano sonata. Among them is the Sonata D. 958 in C minor, where Beethoven’s influence is observed to a great extent. As in the case with concrete musical examples analyzed in the article, the piano performer can realize on practice their own interpretative searches connected with the use of timespace characteristics. In particular, a method of “expanding the performance chronotope” is recommended, which should significantly facilitate the mastering of complicated technical episodes.

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Mikhieieva, Nadiia. "The clarinet and the viola in Sonatas op. 120 by J. Brahms and a pianist’s performing strategy." Problems of Interaction Between Arts, Pedagogy and the Theory and Practice of Education 59, no. 59 (March 26, 2021): 145–57. http://dx.doi.org/10.34064/khnum1-59.10.

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Background. Johannes Brahms composed his two Clarinet Sonatas, op. 120, in 1894, and dedicated them to the outstanding clarinet player Richard Mühlfeld. These were the last chamber pieces he wrote before his death, when he became interested in the possibilities the clarinet offered. Nowadays they are considered to be masterpieces of the clarinet repertoire, legitimizing the combination of piano and clarinet in new composers’ works. Brahms lavished particular care and affection on these works, and he clearly wished them to have the widest possible circulation, for he adapted them – with a certain amount of recomposition in each case – in two parallel forms: as sonatas for viola and piano, and for violin and piano. The violin versions are rarely heard, but the viola sonatas have become cornerstones of this instrument’s repertoire, just as the original forms have for the repertoire of the clarinet. Brahms was effectively establishing a new genre, since before they appeared there were virtually no important duo sonatas for viola and piano. These sonatas embody his compositional technique in its ultimate taut, essentialized, yet marvelously flexible manner. The purpose of this article is to show the interaction of variable and invariant components of the musical text as a factor influencing performance decisions in the process of working on a piece of music. To achieve this goal, it is necessary to conduct a comparative analysis of the musical text of clarinet and viola parts in the Sonatas of J. Brahms op 120, which are the material of this study. The article relevance is in the importance of comprehension the performing differences for pianists (especially, for those specialized on the sphere of chamber music) working J. Brahms’ Sonatas op. 120 with clarinetists or violists. Every piece could offer its own unique complex of special “challenges”, thus the need of analyzing specifics of performance in every such a piece of music appears. This uniqueness is the basis for the innovativeness of the results of the study of the performance specifics of J. Brahms’ Sonata op. 120 in a selected aspect. Results of the research. Clarinet and viola versions Sonatas by J. Brahms op. 120 occupy a prominent place in the performing repertoire, including training. Because the article provides a comparative analysis of the musical text of clarinet and viola parts with the same piano part; provides a comparative overview of the specifics of the artistic expression of the clarinet and viola to determine the performing strategy of the pianist in the ensemble. The differences found in the viola and clarinet parts are divided into the groups – octave transfers, addition of double notes and melismatics, changes in melodic lines, difference in the strokes (staccato, non legato, tenuto, portamento etc.). There is also a detailed description of clarinet and viola timbres. Due to the different possibilities of the instruments, it is quite obvious that the pianist faces certain creative tasks and in general they can be formulated as follows: when playing the viola, the dynamic range of the piano should be smaller than when performing with the clarinet. In addition, you need to pay attention to other details, such as pedal, texture quality, articulation. Yes, the viola sounds much more confident against the background of a “thick” pedal, while the clarinet in this case loses the volume of its sound. With regard to phrasing, it should be borne in mind that the clarinetist needs to take a breath, and the violist’s ability to lead a bow for a long time does not depend on his physiological characteristics. The question arises: which is more important – tempo or phrasing? In this situation, the specificity is that phrasing should be given more attention. The tempo when performing with the clarinet varies significantly than with the viola, and it is also chosen and changed for practical reasons that follow from the physical data of the performer. The pianist should also pay special attention to the differentiation of voices and the quality of articulation. In terms of sound balance, it is obvious that the clarinet needs more piano support than the viola, because it is dynamically brighter. Nevertheless, this does not mean that piano shades “p” should be avoided, because the contrast of dynamics expands the acoustic range of Sonatas and their expressive potential. Conclusion. The comparative-analytical description contributes to the awareness of the differences in the dynamic balance due to the change of the obligatory instrument. Accurate knowledge of where and how such changes occur not only focuses the musicians’ attention on the relevant details in the performance process, but also encourages them to make more informed decisions about the dynamic balance of performance in general.

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Ivanova, I. L. "“3 Piano Sonatas for the Young” op. 118 in a context of last works by Robert Schumann." Aspects of Historical Musicology 13, no. 13 (September 15, 2018): 26–45. http://dx.doi.org/10.34064/khnum2-13.03.

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Background. In recent years, there has been an increased interest of musicologists in the phenomenon of “late Schumann” in the aspect of usage of different historical and cultural traditions by the composer, that constituted problematic aura of given research. Modern scholars investigate this matter from several positions: bounds of Schumann’s style with antecedent music, Viennese classics and art of Baroque (K. Zhabinskiy; 2010); formation of aesthetic and stylistic principles of composer in 1840s–1850s, foreseeing musical phenomena of second half of XIX century (A. Demchenko; 2010), realization of natively national cultural meanings in “Album for the Young” op. 68 in his late works (S. Grokhotov; 2006). The content of given above and other modern researches allows to reconsider still unfortunately widely accepted conception of a “twilight” of Schumann’s genius in the last years of his creative life (D. Zhytomirskiy) and to re-evaluate all the works created by the composer in that time. In the given article, one of them is studied, “3 Piano Sonatas for the Young” op. 118, one of the last among them. This choice is effectuated by two main reasons: by op. 118 being an example of “children music” of R. Schuman, that adds additional marks to the portrait of composer, taking a journey through happy pages of his life, preceding its tragic ending; and by possibilities to study typically “Schumannesque” on this example in constantly changing artistic world of German Romantic, who was on the verge of radical changes in national art of second half of XIX century. In order to conduct a research, the following methods of studying of musical phenomena are used: historical, evolutional, genetic, genre and typological, compositional and dramaturgic, comparative. Regarded through the prism of traditions, Sonatas for the Young reveal simultaneous interjections of contained ideas both with musical past, practice of national culture, including modern one, and with author’s own experience. Dedicating every Sonata to one of his own daughters, R. Schumann continues tradition of addressing his works, a tradition, that in fact has never been interrupted. As one can judge by R. Schumann’s dedications, as a rule, they mask an idea of musical portrait. The First Piano sonata op. 11, 6 Studies in canon form op. 56, Andantino from Piano sonata op. 22 are cited (the last one – according to observation of K. Zhabinskiy). The order of the Sonatas for the Young has clear didactic purpose, as if they were mastered by a child consecutively through different phases of learning piano, that gives this triad a feeling of movement towards general goal and makes it possible to perceive op. 118 as a macrocycle. Another type of cyclization, revealed in this article, discloses legacy of works like suites and variations, created by R. Schumann in 1830s, a legacy effectuated in usage of different variative and variant principles of creating the form on different levels of structure. For example, all the movements of the First sonata are bound with motto, consisting of 4 sounds, that allows to regard this cycle simultaneously as sonata and as variations, and if we take into consideration type of images used, we can add a suite cycle to these principles. In a manner, similar to “Carnival” and “Concerto Without the Orchestra”, author’s “explanation” of constructive logic lays within the composition, in the second movement (“Theme and Variations”). To end this list, the Finale of the Third Sonata for the Young contains a reminiscence of the themes from previous Sonatas, that in some way evokes “Children’s scenes” op. 15 (1838). Suite-like traits of Sonata cycles in the triad op. 118 can also be seen in usage of different-leveled titles, indicating: tempi (“Allegro”, “Andante”), programme image (“The Evening Song”, “The Dream of a Child”) or type of musical form (“Canon”), that underscores a bound of Sonatas for the Young with R. Schumann’s cycles of programme miniatures. In addition to that, a set of piecesmovements refl ects tendency of “late Schumann” to mix different historical and cultural traditions, overcoming the limits of autoretrospection. Tempo markings of movements used as their titles allows to regard them predominately as indications of emotional and imagery content, that resembles a tradition of composer’s practice of 17th – 18th centuries. “Allegro” as a title is also regarded as an announcement of the beginning of the Sonata cycle, and that especially matters for the fi rst Sonata, that, contrary to the Second and Third, is opened not with sonata form, but with three-part reprise form. Of no less signifi cance is appearance of canon in “children” composition with respective title, a canon simultaneously referring to the music of Baroque epoch and being one of obligatory means of form-creating, that young pianist is to master. The same can be addressed to the genre of sonata. Coming from the times of Viennese Classicism, it is preserved as the active of present-day artistic horizon, required from those in the stage of apprenticeship, that means sonata belongs to the present time. For R. Schumann himself, “child” triad op. 118 at the same time meant a return to the genre of Piano sonata, that he hadn’t used after his experiments of 1830s, that can also be regarded as an autoretrospection. Comparative analysis of Sonatas for the Young and “Big Romantic” sonatas, given in the current research, allowed to demonstrate organic unity of R. Schumann’s style, simultaneously showing a distance separating the works of composer, belonging to the different stage of his creative evolution. Created in the atmosphere of “home” routine, dedicated to R. Schumann’s daughters, including scenes from everyday life as well as “grown-up” movements, Three Sonatas for the Young op. 118 embody typical features of Biedermeier culture, a bound with which can be felt in the last works of composer rather distinctly. The conclusion is drawn that domain of “children” music of the author because of its didactic purpose refl ects stylistic features of “late Schumann”, especially of his last years, in crystallized form.

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Нrebeniuk, Nataliіa. "F. Schubert’s last Piano Sonatas in the aspect of his song-like thinking." Aspects of Historical Musicology 21, no. 21 (March 10, 2020): 150–63. http://dx.doi.org/10.34064/khnum2-21.10.

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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.

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Piechnat, Mateusz. "Scriabin – piano music in the context of the composer’s creative ideology. Part 2." Notes Muzyczny 2, no. 10 (December 20, 2018): 103–21. http://dx.doi.org/10.5604/01.3001.0012.9814.

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The article is the second part of the text devoted to the profile and piano works of Alexander Scriabin. The composer had an extraordinary piano talent and the ability of coloured hearing. He worked out an innovative musical language based on a unique harmonic style. He was an unprecedented visionary of art, he had knowledge on philosophical topics, he was also a mystic who wanted to save the mankind thanks to his creative output. Throughout the period of around 20 years, Scriabin’s musical language transformed drastically, which is most fully shown in his piano pieces, especially miniatures and sonatas. The second part of the article presents a general characterisation of Scriabin’s piano compositions and musical language in subsequent stages of his creative work. The analysis refers to style and form-related topics, melodics and harmony he used, texture and timbre phenomena and the connections between piano and symphonic pieces. The author of the article reflects on the essence of Scriabin’s artistic orientation and the fact whether the change of his musical language can be called an “evolution” as such. An important element of the article is the presentation of the structure of each piano sonata. The included characterisation of the change of his musical language is an addition to the first part of the cycle, enabling the reference to the stages of the composer’s life juxtaposed there with the description of the transformation of his artistic views.

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Kutluieva, Dar’ia. "PIANO QUARTETS OF L. BEETHOVEN: MOZART’S PROTOTYPES AND AUTHOR’S INITIO." Problems of Interaction Between Arts, Pedagogy and the Theory and Practice of Education 58, no. 58 (March 10, 2021): 9–22. http://dx.doi.org/10.34064/khnum1-58.01.

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Background. The article provides an analysis of L. Beethoven’s piano quartets through the prism of the ensemble writing and composition experience by W. A. Mozart. The disclosure of the successive ties between the two great Viennese classics in the field of chamber instrumental music contributes to the scientific understanding of the history of this genre, which is not sufficiently covered in musicology. The analysis revealed that the four piano quartets of L. Beethoven are focused on Mozart’s prototypes, or rather, on sonatas for violin and piano. It was found that the formative principles of Beethoven’s piano quartets grow from the above-mentioned compositions by W. A. Mozart, but the content and the ensemble-dramatic solution reflect the independence and originality of the young composer’s thinking, revealing the sprouts of a future mature style. The purpose of this article is to disclose the ways of rethinking the prototypes of Mozart in the piano quartets of L. Beethoven. The piano quartets of the latter serve as the musical material of the article: No. 1 Es-dur, No. 2 D-dur, No. 3 C-dur WoO 36, and No. 4 Es-dur op. 16. Results. L. Beethoven changes the algorithm of ensemble events contained in Mozart’s opuses, where the theme is presented in turn by piano, violin, followed by the conversation of the two. The composer immediately includes all members of the quartet in the presentation of the leading material, which specifies this genre, revealing its “intermediateness” between the intimacy of the trio and the “representativeness” of the concerto. Since the genetic origins of the genre of the piano quartet are the trio sonata, the string quartet and the clavier concerto with the accompaniment of a string ensemble, these genres influenced the type of Beethoven’s piano quartets. Thus, Beethoven’s Bonn quartets resemble in their writing a string quartet; and the piano quartet Es-dur op. 16 resembles a clavier concerto with orchestra. These compositions are related to the first of the above mentioned prototypes by the consistent application of the trio principle, which is expressed in various combinations of ensemble voices. In the timbre refraction, the trio-principle underlies the pairing of stringed instruments, where the bowed instruments form a strictly homophonic vertical with the traditional functional relationship according to the “upper voice ‒ bass ‒ middle” model. Another dimension of the trio principle arises when one of the string parts of the piano is displaced, as a result of which a multi-timbre sound field is formed. There is an obvious desire of the composer for the equality of four voices in the piano quartet. At the same time, the timbre uniqueness of the piano and the virtuosity of its part make it possible to recognize in it the leader of the ensemble union. Conclusion. The leading role of the piano in L. Beethoven’s piano quartets brings this genre closer to a piano concerto. At the same time, the piano has a variety of role functions: it can act as an equal partner, being one of the voices of the quartet score; as a concert instrument demonstrating its virtuoso capabilities; as a leader of an ensemble, a kind of conductor, giving impetus to performance, initiative in ensemble play. Similar functions can be observed in W. A. Mozart’s sonatas for violin and piano, which L. Beethoven was guided by.

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Medvednikova, Tatiana. "THE DRAMATURGY OF THE SONATA CYCLE BY L. VAN BEETHOVEN (on the example Sonata № 3 С-dur оp. 2)." Музикознавча думка Дніпропетровщини, no. 18 (November 13, 2020): 84–92. http://dx.doi.org/10.33287/222019.

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The purpose of the article is to analyze and develop stylistic features of L. Beethoven's sonata cycle for a more accurate reproduction of the play's dramaturgy. The following research methods are used in the work the next. There are historical and cultural approach (research and analysis of works dedicated to L. Beethoven's creative heritage); method of comparative style analysis and general system-structural approach (comparing the problem of the era and its development); the traditional method of source studies as a historical discipline (the work is based on existing sources). Scientific novelty is to identify the peculiarities of creativity and specific performance of works by L. van Beethoven, from the point of view of the contemporary performer, characterizing the attitude of the composer to accurate performance, classification of means of expression and their use precisely when performing works on the piano. Conclusions. From the very beginning of the work on the sonatas, the pianist should pay attention to the stylistic features of the performance of Beethoven's sonatas. Taking a leading role in the study of the author's text, stylistics gives the work a unique sound, and the skill and the right approach maximize the performer of the playwright's reproduction of the play. Getting acquainted with Beethoven's sonatas requires a meticulous attitude to the applicative, dash dynamic notes and pedalisations written by the composer himself. The unity and interaction of the means of musical expression, such as: dynamics, fingering, pedaling and strokes, plays a special role in the performance of L. Beethoven's sonata cycle and brings the pianist closer to the most accurate transmission of the composer's creative intent. Condemning the carelessness of the execution of the author's instructions, Beethoven requires not only accurate, but above all expressive of their execution. Thus, the composer draws the artist's attention to their content.

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Granot, Roni Y., and Nori Jacoby. "Musically puzzling I: Sensitivity to overall structure in the sonata form?" Musicae Scientiae 15, no. 3 (July 6, 2011): 365–86. http://dx.doi.org/10.1177/1029864911409508.

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Previous studies have suggested that listeners are not sensitive to the overall tonal structure of musical pieces. This assumption is reexamined in the current study in an active musical puzzle task, with no time constraints, focusing on the presumably most directional musical form – the sonata form. In our first study (reported here, and referred to as “the Mozart study”), participants with varying levels of musical training were presented with disordered sections of Mozart’s piano sonata K. 570/I in B flat major and asked to rearrange the ten sections into a musically logical coherent whole. A second study (to be reported in Musicae Scientiae issue 16[1]) replicated the task in a different group of participants who listened to Haydn’s piano sonata, Hob: XVI-34/I in E minor. In contrast with previous studies, we do not focus on listeners’ ability to recover the original sonatas. Rather, we explore emergent patterns in their responses using new types of analysis. Our results indicate that listeners show: (1) Some sensitivity to the overall structure of A-B-A’ around the non-stable B section; (2) Non- trivial sensitivity to overall “directionality” through a new type of analysis (“distance score”); (3) Correct grouping and placement of developmental sections possibly related to listener’s sensitivity to musical tension; (4) Sensitivity to opening and closing gestures, thematic similarity and surface cues and; (5) No sensitivity to global harmonic structure.

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Kutluieva, Daria. "Piano quartets by F. Mendelssohn as a phenomenon of the Romantic era." Aspects of Historical Musicology 16, no. 16 (September 15, 2019): 143–57. http://dx.doi.org/10.34064/khnum2-16.08.

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Background. Nowadays, the typology of the piano quartet is actively studied by the modern scientists. The genesis of this genre is becoming more contentious. As pointed out by L. Tsaregorodtseva (2005), and earlier I. Byaly (1989), a connection of concerts for clavier solo accompanied by a string ensembles and a string quartet form a foundation for a genre of the piano quartet. N. Samoilova (2011) sees the origin of this genre in ensembles with clavier, L. Tsaregorodtseva (2005) ‒ in the historical and cultural situation of the last third of the 18th century, including the genre (string quartet and piano concerto), structural and compositional (sonata form), organological (instrument condition), performing (pianism development). I. Byaly (1989) and I. Polskaya (2001) consider the trio principle as the basis of ensemble genres, including the piano quartet. A conjunction of these opinions let us perceive the piano quartet as the result of the synthesis of various compositional and genre principles of ensembles, which formed the basis of the classical structure of the genre. Its creators are believed to be W. A. Mozart, the author of two piano quartets: No. 1 g-moll KV478 and No. 2 Es-dur KV493 (1785; 1786), and L. Beethoven, who composed four piano quartets: WoO 36 № 1 Es-dur, № 2 D-dur, № 3 C-dur (1785) and op. 16 Es-dur (1801). In these compositions of the classical era the defining attributes of the genre were multitimbrality, which manifests in keyboard and string instruments; ensemble players equality; signs of various types of utterance, including those inherent in a string quartet and clavier concerto involving a group of strings; sonatas and symphonies; as well as the type of composition, built on the model of “fast-slow-fast” with the obligatory sonata Allegro in the first position. In the romantic era, the boundaries of the genre expand in terms of content, structure, interpretation of the ensemble. The first attempt to increase the scale of the cycle belongs to C. M. Weber, who brought it closer to the composition of the string quartet through the introduction of Menuetto. However, the final fourpart cycle is set by F. Mendelssohn, who replaced Menuetto with Scherzo, which becomes the normative model for the romantic tradition of the genre. Objectives. The purpose of this article is to determine the role of F. Mendelssohn’s piano quartets in the evolution of the genre in general, and in the romantic era in particular. Results. Three piano quartets by F. Mendelssohn present a picture of his youthful attitude. The musician’s early composing ability allowed him to turn to the creation of works of this genre without fear. This genre usually attracts the attention of artists in their mature period of creativity, having mastered various genres, including chamber-instrumental ensembles (W. A. Mozart, R. Schumann, J. Brahms). It is easy to observe the commonalities of F. Mendelssohn and young Beethoven, who also composed the piano quartets in the early days of his oeuvre. F. Mendelssohn has composed three piano quartets: No. 1 c-moll (1882), dedicated to Prince Antoine Radziwill, No. 2 f-moll (December 1823), dedicated to Karl Zelter, and No. 3 h-moll (January 1823) – to Goethe. The skill of using large structures, the depth of musical thought, and even the sings of his future style are starting to find expression in Mendelssohn’s youth compositions. The four-part structure of the composition cycles reveals the young composer’s interest in the works of L. Beethoven, in particular in his piano sonatas. Distinctly clear analogies are also found in «Aurora» op. 53 and «Appassionata» op. 57. R. Larry Todd (2003) also points to the similarity of the original themes of the Piano quartet No. 1 c-moll by F. Mendelssohn and the piano sonata in the same key KV457 by W. A. Mozart. It defined by the initial course of the sounds of the basic triad, as well as the use of symmetrical question-answer constructions, contrasting in mood. The connections between these two compositions are even more evident in the finale, which begins with a theme directly borrowed from the last part of W. A. Mozart’s sonata (as identified by the author of this article). In Quartet No. 2 f-moll, connections with the music of L. Beethoven are not limited to allusions to the famous piano sonatas of the Viennese classic. The first part of F. Mendelssohn’s cycle contains several definite signs of Beethoven’s influences: the development of the code is significantly expanded in the sonata form, and in a monumental reprise the young author defines the extreme dynamic level fff. In Adagio (Des-dur) there is a wide enharmonic palette, including several sharp keys. The next part, labeled as Intermezzo, provides a transition to the «explosive» finale, which opens with a «rocket-like» theme, driven by an ascending line of chromatic bass. Piano Quartet No. 3 h-moll is the work that determined the choice of F. Mendelssohn’s professional composer career, which was highly appreciated by L. Kerubini. Mastery of the musical form is manifested in a significant expansion of the scope of the cycle and each of its parts. Adhering to the strategy of virtuoso interpretation of the piano part, which was chosen in the first two opuses, the author, at the same time, subordinates the tasks of demonstrating the pianist’s instrumental possibilities to the purpose of disclosure the dramatic idea of the work. At the same time, he does not brake the principle of equality of ensemble members, borrowed from his predecessors in any of his piano quartets. Conclusions. The analysis revealed the following indicators of the romanticization of the piano quartet genre in the work of F. Mendelssohn. These are: the scale of the content and composition of the cycle; the large coda sections in the first and final parts; the poetic completion of the lyrical second parts, as it is in “songs without words”; brilliance of the final parts; dominance of minor keys; equality of ensemble members with the “directorial” function of the piano and others. The high artistic qualities of F. Mendelssohn’s piano quartets attract the attention of many performers, among which the Foret Quartet demonstrates the most adequate interpretation of these works.

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Renat, Maryla. "The synthesis of tradition and avant-garde techniques in selected polish violin sonatas from the second half of the 20th century." Notes Muzyczny 2, no. 12 (December 13, 2019): 199–216. http://dx.doi.org/10.5604/01.3001.0013.7175.

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The article presents four chamber violin sonatas for an instrument duo written in the 1970s and 1980s, which in their concept of form and shape combine the elements of the widely understood tradition with innovative means of composition technique. The subject for a closer analysis are the following works: • Witold Rudziński, Sonata pastorale per violino e piano forte, 1978 (PWM, Cracow 1983) • Sławomir Czarnecki, Sonate tragique für Violine und Klavier, 1982 (Tonos, Darmstadt 1988) • Jan Krenz, Sonatina for two violins, 1986 (Brevis, Poznań 1994) • Zbigniew Bargielski, Sonate für Violine und Klavier „The sonata of oblivion”,1987, autograph. Each sonata listed above renders an individual concept for combining paradigms adopted from the tradition (e.g. forms, use of quotation, expression idiom) with selected avant-garde means in sound technique, which mainly derives from the sonoristic trend. What Witold Rudziński’s Sonata pastorale per violino e piano forte draws from music tradition is the thematic character of musical thoughts, and in its sound sphere it introduces the means of mild sonoristic, maintaining a balance between them. Sławomir Czarnecki’s Sonate tragique für Violine und Klavier using the quotation from the sequence of Dies irae refers to the Late-Romantic expression to which it adds unusual methods of sound production and sonoristic middle episode. The function of these innovative means is to contrast it against dramatic expression of the piece’s outermost elements. The third discussed work, Sonatina for two violins by Jan Krenz corresponds with the neoclassical trend from the 20th century and brings out diverse elements of violin technique. It refers to the B-A-C-H sound symbol known from the past and to the variation form and combines them with more recent sound structures. The fourth composition, Sonate für Violine und Klavier by Zbigniew Bargielski, is the most innovative one in terms of its sound layer and formal concept. Its connection to the past is maintained thanks to a quotation from Chopin’s music transformed in an interesting way. The analysis of the sonatas leads to the following final conclusion: the tradition and the avant-garde in the discussed works from the postmodern period are not in opposition one against another in terms of style and aesthetics but they create complementary phenomena, in which the message drawn from tradition is given a new face.

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Alessandri, Elena, Hubert Eiholzer, and Aaron Williamon. "Reviewing critical practice: An analysis ofGramophone’s reviews of Beethoven’s piano sonatas, 1923–2010." Musicae Scientiae 18, no. 2 (February 4, 2014): 131–49. http://dx.doi.org/10.1177/1029864913519466.

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XANKIŞIYEVA, İlhame. "A LOOK AT AZER DADASHOV’S PIANO WORK." IEDSR Association 6, no. 15 (September 20, 2021): 1–10. http://dx.doi.org/10.46872/pj.302.

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The article we presented is devoted to the analysis of A.Dadashov's piano music. Although some of the composer's piano works have been examined in various studies, this heritage has not been examined in its entirety. The images created by A.Dadashov include the relationship between man and the universe, the desire for the creation of the individual world, as well as aspects related to the inner world of man. Piano music, which is an important part of A.Dadashov's work, is represented by various genres, large and small. Here you can find all kinds of genres, from piano and orchestral concerts to small preludes. Thus, the composer's piano music offers a wide choice for pianists of different ages. Azer Dadashov's piano works include three concerts written for piano and camera orchestra, as well as a series of small miniatures and independent plays. The composer composed three concerts for piano and orchestra. The first concert took place in 2004, the second in 2009 and the third in 2010. Miniature genres dominate Azer Dadashov's piano music. The series for young pianists is particularly noteworthy here. A.Dadashov’s “Six Preludes”, “Six Miniatures”, “For the Flower” consisting of seven dances, as well as four sonatinas, pastoral, etc. There are piano works. Taking into account the technical abilities of the young pianist, who has mastered the art of performance, the composer tried to portray the children's colorful dance power, the world of bright images and create interesting musical panels. The composer's piano series “Six Preludes” (1966), “Six miniatures” (1968), “Six melancholy miniatures” (1985), “For Flowers” (1986), and “Atmacalar” (2001) are included in the children's music teaching repertoire. These miniatures are widely included in the concert program of school and young pianists. As the name suggests, most of these sequences are programmed. In sequences of a particular genre, each instance has its own image-emotional content and is ordered within the sequence according to a certain linking principle. Azer Dadashov's piano music is also characteristic of independent plays of different volume and content. These include “Poema” (2012), “Space song” (2015), “Bagatel” (2010), “Praise”, “Funny dance” (2009), four sonatas, “Three almonds and a walnut” for piano and chamber orchestra. ”, “Sacrifice of God”, “My Flag”, “Trial”, “Grace” and others. Although the use of modern means of expression and the writing techniques of the composer are observed in A.Dadashov's piano music, the composer prefers classical traditions to embody the form. In the composer's music, each motif serves to embody the main idea down to the smallest detail, depending on its general content.

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Domagała, Jarosław. "Teaching qualities in piano works by Henryk Pachulski in the context of the development of piano technique in children and youth. Part 1." Notes Muzyczny 2, no. 16 (December 30, 2021): 59–86. http://dx.doi.org/10.5604/01.3001.0015.5488.

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Henryk Pachulski (1852-1921) – a Polish composer, pianist, and teacher. He graduated from the Warsaw Institute of Music, having studied piano with Rudolf Strobl. His harmony and counterpoint teachers were Stanisław Moniuszko and Władysław Żeleński. After that, he studied piano at the Moscow Conservatory with Nicolai Rubinstein and then Pawel Pabst. He learnt harmony from E. L. Langer, then Anton Arensky with whom he also had a special course in counterpoint. In 1886 he started his teaching career at the Moscow Conservatory, which lasted over 30 years. He also performed as a pianist in Moscow, Petersburg, and Warsaw. Pachulski was acknowledged for his technical aptitude, but he gained the greatest recognition as a teacher and a composer. He created over a hundred piano works, including three sonatas, two cycles of variations, two polonaises, two mazurkas, three waltzes, preludes, studies, impromptus, and more. He also wrote chamber, vocal and orchestra compositions, as well as piano transcriptions for orchestra and chamber pieces. This article presents the composer’s music and teaching activity, it also touches on teaching qualities of his piano works. It pays special attention to technical aspects, and the analysis also covers the formal side of these compositions. While preparing the text, the author used information included in the Polish music press from the turn of the 20th century, music collection of the National Library in Warsaw, archive documents, and foreign sources.

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Сидір, Наталія. "Ballade for Piano and Orchestra in the First Half of the 20th Century: Stylistic and Form-building elements." Edukacja Muzyczna 16 (2021): 149–60. http://dx.doi.org/10.16926/em.2021.16.09.

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This article presents a comparative analysis of creative solutions within the genre of ballades for piano and orchestra in works created by local and foreign composers in the first half of the 20th century, such as L. Różycki, G. Tailleferre, B. Britten, N. Medtner, and I. Shamo. It has been determined that most works are characterised by purposeful inspiration which influenced their style. The basis of the genre lies in the synthesis of various features of the folk ballad and the poetic piano concerto. The first component combines epic song features, parts of folk songs or their arrangements, and declamatory melodies. The second one can be noticed in the different types of cooperation between the soloist (or soloists) and the orchestra, in the combination of features characteristic for single-part and cyclic forms (suite, rhapsody or different types of cyclic sonatas), and in the logic behind juxtaposing contrasting genre features or the figurative transformation of monothematic variants.

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Shchetynsky, Oleksandr. "Valentyn Bibik: reaching artistic maturity." Aspects of Historical Musicology 23, no. 23 (March 26, 2021): 42–64. http://dx.doi.org/10.34064/khnum2-23.03.

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The object of research is the works of V. Bibik written at the beginning of his mature period. The aim of the research is to reveal the main features of Bibik’s style. Methods of research include technical analysis of the works in the context of the innovative tendencies in the Ukrainian music of 1960–70s, as well as comparative research. Research results. Outstanding Ukrainian composer Valentyn Bibik (1940–2003) wrote over 150 works. Mostly they are large-scale symphonic, choral, vocal, and chamber pieces. Among them are 11 symphonies, over 20 concerti for various instruments with orchestra, vocal and choral cycles, chamber compositions (the last group includes 5 string quartets, 3 piano trios, sonatas for string instruments both solo and with piano), 10 piano sonatas, piano solo works (two sets of preludes and fugues – 24 and 34 total, Dies Irae – 39 variations). The composer was born in Kharkiv. In 1966 he completed studies at Kharkiv Conservatory, where he attended the composition class of D. Klebanov. Since 1994, he had been living in St.-Petersburg, and since 1998, in Israel where he died in 2003. Bibik’s formative period coincided with a substantive modernization of Ukrainian culture in the 1960s. During those years, members of the “Kyiv avantgarde” group (L. Hrabovsky, V. Sylvestrov, V. Godziatsky, et al.) sought to utilize modernistic idioms and techniques, such as free atonality, dodecaphony, sonoristic and aleatoric textures, cluster harmony, etc. Unlike the others, Bibik started with a more conservative style, which bore the influences of Shostakovich, Prokofiev, and Bartók. Bibik’s mature period started several years later in the early 1970s with Piano Trio No. 1 (1972) and the composition Watercolors for soprano and piano (1973). Together with his next piano work 34 Preludes and Fugues, these compositions show extremely individual features of Bibik’s style, such as: 1. Special treatment of the sound, which is considered not just a material for building certain musical structures but a self-valuable substance (Bibik has an original manner of organizing sound). Hence, timbral and textural aspects draw special attention to the composer. 2. The pitch and rhythmic structure of the themes is quite simple. A combination of several simple motives becomes the starting point of long and sophisticated development. These motives are derived from folk music, however, due to rhythmic transformation, they have lost their direct connection with the folk source. 3. Rhythmic structures areal so very simple. They often include sequences of equal rhythmic values (usually crotchets or eights). However, the composer avoids monotony dueto due to variable time signatures and permanent rubato, as well as significant flexibility in phrasing. 4. The development relies mostly on melodic and polyphonic elaboration of initial simple motives. The composer utilizes various kinds of polyphony, such as canonic imitations, various combinations of the main and supportive voices, heterophony, hyper-polyphony. In fugues he employs both traditional and new methods of thematic and tonal distribution. 5. The harmony in Bibik’s works is mostly modal, as well as a combination of modality with free atonality and extended tonality. The structure of the dense chords is close to clusters, while more transparent chords include mostly seconds and fourths (as well as their inversions). He almost never used traditional tonal harmony and chords built up from thirds, and was interested in their color aspect rather than their tonal functionalism. 6. The sonoristic texture is very important. It does not diminish the importance of the melody but gets into special collaboration with it (“singing sonority”). A special “mist” around a clear melodic line is one of Bibik’s most typical devices. Due to special “pedal” orchestration, both the line and the “surrounding” sounds become equally important. 7. Elements of limited aleatoric music may be found in his rhythm and agogics, and sometimes inpitch structures (passages and figurations with free choice of the pitches). His favorite technique is a superposition of two rhythmically and temporally independent textural layers (for instance, a combination of the viola solo and the sonoristic orchestral background in the third movement of the Fourth Symphony). 8. Sonata for mand the fugue were significantly reinterpreted within free atonality and modal harmony. These provisions are the scientific novelty of the study.

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Yust, Jason, Jaeseong Lee, and Eugene Pinsky. "A Clustering-Based Approach to Automatic Harmonic Analysis: An Exploratory Study of Harmony and Form in Mozart’s Piano Sonatas." Transactions of the International Society for Music Information Retrieval 5, no. 1 (2022): 113–28. http://dx.doi.org/10.5334/tismir.114.

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Sun, Natalia. "Sonatinas for Piano in the Context of Mao-Shuen Chen’s Composer and Pedagogical Activities." Aspects of Historical Musicology 19, no. 19 (February 7, 2020): 247–67. http://dx.doi.org/10.34064/khnum2-19.14.

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Background. The article is devoted to the piano work of the outstanding composer, pianist and teacher Mao-Shuen Chen (born 1936), his contribution to the art of music and education in Taiwan. Music education received in Taiwan, and then – in European countries, allowed Mao-Shuen Chen to significantly develop and modernize his native national art. His methodical works, textbooks and collections of exercises for piano became the basis of his own method of teaching, which the musician has long successfully used in public and private music schools in Taiwan. An important role in Mao-Shuen Chen’s unique pedagogical system is also played by his piano works, especially sonatinas. The sonatinas of Mao-Shuen Chen act as a kind of link between school-level compositions and opuses of the highest pianistic complexity. They are collected in three notebooks, each of the next of which represents a higher degree of pianistic complexity. Sonatina makes it possible, in a simpler and more compact-scale presentation, to prepare students for mastering a more complex genre – the sonata. Mastering the sonata form for members of the Taiwanese musical tradition is a particularly difficult task, due to differences in European musical thinking, within which the sonata originated, and the peculiarities of national music, which is usually the focus of composers. However, the genre of sonatina in the works of Mao-Shuen Chen and its role in the development of sonata thinking of Taiwanese students have not been studied to date. Objectives and methodology. The purpose of this research is to reveal the peculiarities of the interpretation of the genre of sonatina in the piano work of Mao-Shuen Chen, its role in the pedagogical system of the Taiwanese musician and its artistic and pedagogical value. In this connection the characteristic of the pianistic level of complexity of the works under consideration is given, their technical and artistic difficulties are revealed. For this, various methods of research were applied: genre-style, intonational analyses, systematization, musical-aesthetic and interpretological approaches. Results. Thanks to a well-organized educational system of methodological works, books, musical anthologies and audio recordings, Mao-Shuen Chen was able to build his own pedagogical approagh and introduce his teaching methods to many young musicians striving to acquire a high professional level as a performer and a teacher. In this system of mastering piano professionalism, thirty-five sonatinas by Mao-Shuen Chen, created from 1980 to 2015, occupy an important place. Sonatinas are very useful in preparing piano students to study more complex compositions written in sonata form. All sonatinas are dominated by the flavor of Taiwanese folk music. So, at the heart of Sonatinas Nos. 1–5, 7, 11, 17, 21 is the pentatonic scale of the mode “shan”, which can be expanded with additional steps. The exceptions are Sonatina No. 6, written using the atonal writing technique, and Sonatina No. 8, which is based on the Western European tonal system. Considering the rhythmic organization as the basis of music, the composer demonstrates in his sonatinas various versions of the musical meter and rhythm – complex and variable metering, syncope, polyrhythm, etc. He arranges these elements in his sonatinas from simple to complex. Mao-Shuen Chen pays great attention to polyrhythmic combinations 3: 2, 4: 3, 4: 6 and, considering them important for mastering the educational didactic. They can be considered the same instructive material as rhythmic exercises or etudes. For example, Sonatinas Nos. 3–6 are based on polyrhythm 3: 2, 2: 3, Sonatinas Nos. 7–8 – on combinations 3: 4 and 4: 3. It is no coincidence, that they also published in the composer’s educational methodological manual – the collection “Piano School and Piano Exercises 3: 4, 4: 3” (1990). The final Sonatinas (Nos. 32–34) by Mao-Shuen Chen require a high degree of pianistic mastership from the performer. They present works that combine complex elements of the Taiwanese national musical language and contemporary Western composer writing. The intonational and dynamic richness, variety of rhythmic patterns, irregular meters, extraordinary line drawing indicate that these works can rightfully be considered one of the brightest examples of the modern repertoire and can be widely represented on the concert stage. Conclusions. Mao-Shuen Chen made significant contributions to Taiwanese musical culture, especially in the areas of composition and music education. Among the many genres of his work, piano music occupies the most significant place. Having devoted many years to teaching in the higher musical institutions of Taiwan, Mao-Shuen Chen has developed a coherent system of teaching materials from the level of musical elementary school to higher education, with a focus on the practice of solfeggio and fundamental professional disciplines. The composer devoted a significant part of his attention to works of the sonata form – sonatinas and sonatas. In this regard, he can be compared with the Western European classic, the “patriarch of the piano” M. Clementi, who created a harmonious system of progressive mastery of pianistic skill. In all of his works, Mao-Shuen Chen represents his aspiration for the model of Western musical education, carefully preserving the Taiwanese national cultural tradition. He creates compositions with a typical Western structure, which should be performed on a Western musical instrument, but they clearly reflect the ChineseTaiwanese national flavor. Since the piano sonatas of Mao-Shuen Chen present high demands on performers due to their large volume, considerable virtuosity and the complexity of the rhythmic organization of texture, their mastering is possible only after passing through the simpler opuses of the Taiwanese composer.

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VARVARICHI, Leona, and Alina-Maria NAUNCEF. "Wilhelm Georg Berger’s Music: Elements of compositional style and instrumental techniques necessary for the public performance." BULLETIN OF THE TRANSYLVANIA UNIVERSITY OF BRASOV SERIES VIII - PERFORMING ARTS 14 (63), no. 1 (2021): 97–108. http://dx.doi.org/10.31926/but.pa.2021.14.63.1.11.

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The present paper approaches a part of the vast creation of a musician of certain value, to whom generations of players have a moral duty. The analyses of Wilhelm Berger’s sonatas for viola come to the help of those set on the road of an interpretative effort projected over these opuses. The purpose of this brief research is to investigate several elements of the metamorphosis of the compositional phenomenon in two of Wilhelm Georg Berger’s works: The Sonata for viola and piano op. 3 (1957) and the Sonata for solo viola op. 35 (1968). The particular way of processing the musical material originates from his analytical and philosophical thinking. Berger’s compositional technique preserves the principles of the sonata genre structure in both works, using a totally different musical language in the Sonata Solo, 11 years later. The ethos of the music changes, therefore a series of instrumental techniques corresponding to musical expressions encountered in the text are proposed for a better understanding and performing Berger’s music.

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Shcherbakova, Olga. "Sonata for violin and piano as a Serafim Orfeyev’s creative views." Collection of scientific works “Notes on Art Criticism”, no. 39 (September 1, 2021): 149–53. http://dx.doi.org/10.32461/2226-2180.39.2021.238711.

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The purpose of the article is to identify the intonation-content complex of the Sonata for Violin and Piano by the representative of the Odesa School of Composers Serafym Orfeyev in the area of the performer's interpretation of the symbolism of the sonata, comparison of similar works of Ukrainian composers in a specific historic period and identifying the original artistic concept of Orfeyev's work in accordance with his mindset. The scientific novelty is based on the fact that for the first time the work of Orfeyev, which has not yet been the subject of scientific research, is considered, and the significance of the composer's contribution to the development of the instrumental sonata of the XX century is revealed. Methodology. The personal features of the artist's creative preferences are determined through a complex of musical symbolism and reflection of the multiple meaning of the Orthodox church tradition of choral art, mythological information of folk-historical archaism in combination with professional achievements in the development of the chamber sonata genre. Conclusions. Sonata's analysis points to the signs of S. Orfeyev's stylistic search, which was expressed in the spread of the specifics of choral writing, to the comprehension of which (on the example of the works of Mykola Leontovych and Anatolii Lyadov) the composer paid great attention; in instrumental thinking, which was reflected in the saturation of the fabric of the ensemble work with a polyphonic plexus of voices, and especially hidden polyphony. The connection with folk art influences the reproduction of an expressive dynamic picture of a folk holiday. A rather complex synthesis of the dramatic and the lyrical creates a unique, deeply emotional concept of a musical work, which vividly complements the genre of the instrumental sonata with new features in the traditional romantic color.

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Braus, Ira. "Elliott Carter's Analysis of his Piano Sonata (1945-46)." Current Musicology 108 (November 6, 2021): 53–80. http://dx.doi.org/10.52214/cm.v108i.3593.

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In 1948, Elliott Carter penned an analysis of his Piano Sonata for Edgard Varèse. His analysis of the first movement, in particular, makes one ask why Carter did not subsume its recurrent two-tempo structure under “first group” of its sonata form. Given Carter’s sophistication, was he experiencing a moment of music historical “agnosia,” since two-tempo expositions inform familiar Beethoven works such as Piano Sonata, op.31, no.2 and String Quartet in Bb, op.130. This paper explores Carter’s “agnosia” by way of internal and external evidence. Internally, it revisits the thematic chart he attached to the 1948 analysis and goes on to posit the idea that the work’s quintal neo-tonality so saturates its thematic network themes as to distort the composer’s analysis of the form, historical precedents irrespective. Externally, the paper compares three works by Beethoven to Carter’s Sonata as regards its two-tempo structure, using concepts borrowed from Hepokoski and Darcy’s Elements of Sonata Theory (1999). Finally, the author revisits writings of Carter and his circle that may explain why his analysis downplayed historical precedents to the Piano Sonata.

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Kharenko, Alina. "Musical dramaturgy as a creative method in jazz art: the example of the piano art by Sergey Davydov." Problems of Interaction Between Arts, Pedagogy and the Theory and Practice of Education 55, no. 55 (November 20, 2019): 155–69. http://dx.doi.org/10.34064/khnum1-55.11.

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Background. Jazz is one of the most significant phenomena of the entire twentieth century, which in a very short period of time has won the attention of listeners around the world. Finally, many explores are interested in the study of jazz art as a significant element of the world’s musical heritage. There are a lot of works written by national and foreign musicologists who study jazz music from different viewpoints. A great variety of studies in jazz art include works devoted to the technical aspect, on the one hand: the study of scale harmony, rhythm, instrumentation, and on the other hand – the issues of historiography and style formation. However, focusing mainly on the identification of specific methods of using individual elements of the entire complex of music and expressive means of jazz art, scientists are less interested in the study of more «in-depth» issues, such as interpretation in jazz art, form building, semiotic and hermeneuticmethods of jazz music evaluation, musical dramaturgy. The concept of jazzmusic making remains unexplored. In our understanding, the study of musical dramaturgy deserves special attention, because at its level the coordinates of jazz music as a complex improvisation process converge. Objectives. The purpose of the article is to identify and study the main factors that determine the principles of formation of jazz musical dramaturgy at the level of solo piano composition. It is the improvisational nature of the composing and performing arts as well as the absence of a detailed musical notation that indicate the need to study the subject and an attempt to provide its scientific substantiation. Methods. The methodology of the study includes analytical, comparative, systematic and stylistic methods. This methodological basis allows us to identify the principles of jazz musical dramaturgy from the standpoint of piano jazz art, which, in the author’s opinion, gives an opportunity to speak about the peculiarities of organizing a musical text with the texture of different types of arrangement. Results. Over the last decades, jazz, without losing its specificity, has increasingly shown a tendency to interpenetrate with academic musical art, and at the same time become universal. An example of this could be the creative work of the renowned Kharkov jazz pianist Sergey Davydov. Turning to the specifics of the solo improvisational mastery of the pianist, we should distinguish the following important vectors in his work: commitment to the synthesis of jazz and academic traditions, tendency to polyphonize the textual presentation of the musical text, the use of the sonata principles as a consistent processual development of the whole complex of music and artistic ideas. The subject of the analysis offered in this study is a demonstrative example of the arrangement of the musical text of S. Davidov’s solo improvisation, which he demonstrated at the international festival “S. Rakhmaninov and Ukrainian Culturе”, which took place in Kharkiv in 2007 (the analysis was made on the basis of the video footage). The uniqueness of this example is that the pianist in his improvisation synthesized jazz intonation-rhythmic idiom with constructive and creatively inventive correlation of textural and compositional techniques of S. Rachmanino’s pianism. The conducted analysis confirms that S. Davydov, in addition to using the whole arsenal of specific jazz means of organizing sound fabric, adapts in his improvisation texturally-theatrical principles characteristic of S. Rakhmaninov’s work, and not only at the expense of quoting, but and at the intonational level. The factual organization of the composition, in this case, is based on the use of the potential of large and passage techniques, which brings together S. Davydov’s creative concepts with the aesthetics of virtuosity of European pianist composers of the Romantic period. Solo improvisation is analyzed – a kind of musical recital, which lacks the traditional jazz principle of formation based on variational construction, and is dominated by freely interpreted sonatas. Conclusions. Thus, the basic principles of musical dramaturgy formation in jazz art are: the use of specific jazz means of expression, which in the light of textual organization of the musical text realize the emotional and meaningful tension, forming a clear dramatic outline of the whole composition. Conflict, as a multilayered, comprehensive process of choosing an aesthetic position in the climax, reaches a point of dramatic ignition due to specific performance factors: dynamics, agogics, textural-rhythmic combinations. Not only specific performing skills but also energetic translation of the ideological content of the whole composition are involved in this process. In the context of jazz musical dramaturgy, one more important factor, which is fundamental in both solo and ensemble jazz art, is specific communication. However, when compared to academic music, where the listening strategy is interpreted as a «strategy of co-intonation to the sound form» but in jazz culture it is the listener who, at the level of the performer or interpreter, is a direct participant of musical dramaturgy creation. This is expressed by applause at times of intense tension or after the most successful improvisation of one of the ensemble members. Summarizing all the above, on the basis of the analysis we have tried to give our corrections to the concept of «musical dramaturgy in jazz» – is a thematic process of juxtaposition and interaction of elements of jazz language that contains various polystylistic complexes of Western European academic art, directing the energy of communication to the higher artistic unity of a jazz work.

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Owczarek-Ciszewska, Joanna. "Hammer mechanism instruments and their role in shaping the composition style of pieces written for keyboard instruments in the period of 1730-1780, part 3 – Keyboard instruments in concert halls and in the high society." Notes Muzyczny 1, no. 11 (June 28, 2019): 43–64. http://dx.doi.org/10.5604/01.3001.0013.3521.

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The present text is the third and last part of the cycle of articles devoted to keyboard instruments with hammer mechanism in the 18th century published in subsequent issues of the magazine “Notes Muzyczny”. The first two parts primarily touched on the history of keyboard instrument making in the 18th century: first pianos and other original inventions. The third part is in turn devoted to the changing position of the piano in the musical life of that period, namely – concerts, publications and compositions. The crowning of this part is the chronological and topic-related list (in a form of a reference chart) of the most significant phenomena and events discussed in the whole cycle of articles. The first mentions of a wider presence of keyboard instruments with hammer mechanism on the music market and concert life date back to the 1760s. In the 1770s there was a fast growth in the popularity of these instruments in the life of the high society, first of all in England and France (table instruments), as well as in Germany, even though there it took slightly more time because of the domination of the traditional clavichord. Due to the imprecise nomenclature used as long as until the 1780s and 1790s, it is often hard to decide which keyboard instrument was meant in a given case, hence it is impossible to assess how popular a specific instrument was. Some academics suggest that the presence of instruments with hammer mechanism in the musical life of that period was much greater than in might seem. Probably both hammer and tangent pianos and their other variants were not opposed to harpsichords but were treated as a special type within the same group of instruments. In the 1780s musical pieces written for both keyboard instruments, i.e., “for harpsichord or piano”, became the norm. Despite the increase in popularity of pianos (as compared to harpsichords) in the 1790s, such designation would remain on title pages of compositions until the end of that century. The period between the 1780s and 1790s was also the time when the first piano playing textbooks appeared. Expanding expressive capacities of keyboard instruments was the response to the changing needs of the galant and Empfindsamkeit styles. On the other hand, the presence of pianos had a significant influence on the styles of specific compositions. In order to illustrate these processes, the annex presents the analyses of two representative cycles of works from the 1760s written for the new instrument: Sonatas op. 1 by Johann Gottfried Eckard and Sonatas op. 5 by Johann Christian Bach.

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Sediuk, I. O. "The originality of neoclassic principles reflection in the Sonata for two pianos by Paul Hindemith." Problems of Interaction Between Arts, Pedagogy and the Theory and Practice of Education 56, no. 56 (July 10, 2020): 154–68. http://dx.doi.org/10.34064/khnum1-56.10.

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Background. The neoclassicism of the first decades of the 20th century turned to be a kind of opposition to atonalism, which captured many radical composers. The supposed “bilingualism” of neoclassicism opened wide perspectives for individual concepts realization, broadening the boundaries of new knowledge of the Baroque and early classicism. Instrumental sonata, including the Sonata for Two Pianos naturally entered the neoclassical trend mainstream in a number of others, non-symphonic classical and romantic genres, compensating for the rejection of effective dramaturgy by enhancing the contrast between the cycle’s parts, thus tending to Baroque cyclic compositions. For Paul Hindemith, whose name is always associated with this art movement, “communication” with musical past was not an instant hobby but something that determined the focus of his creative thought. Objectives. The article’s purpose is to reveal the peculiarity of neoclassic principles embodiment in the Sonata for Two Pianos by P. Hindemith, to consider its composition, semantic and structural units. Methods. The study’s methodology is based on historicism principle, which involves the study of artistic phenomena being connected with the established musical art experience, and a comprehensive approach that allows involving of different methods of music analysis. Results. Sonata for Two Pianos (1942) consists of five movements; each one has its name. P. Hindemith’s individual approach to the sonata genre is usually evaluated in terms of the artist’s refusal of traditional composition, changes in sonata form, which often includes dramatic function changing. This is due to the desire to make equal all the forms involved in the cycle, in particular the most important polyphonic ones. The movements’ names “The Bells”, “Allegro”, “Canon”, “Recitative”, “Fugue” reveal the suite’s features. “The Bells” opening the cycle show a wide range of musical associations: from French harpsichordists gravitating to sound expression to representatives of different national cultures of the 20th century. The textured thematic drawing of the part reveals another modus of play with tradition expressing itself in improvisational principle domination and Baroque fantasy revival. The Old English verse text preceding “Recitative” reminds of 16–17th century program compositions and shows connection with opera art. “Recitative” combines concise musical phrases typical for Baroque culture vocal genres and typical rhythm formulas that embody the freedom of language intonation and bring in improvisation and allusion on basso continuo. The reference to Baroque era polyphony is evidenced by “Canon” and “Fugue”. In the “Canon”, polyphonic interaction is reached by two piano parties and not by individual voices of the four-voice ensemble texture. The slow tempo Lento, the static movement of musical thought, where “step” pulsation is felt in 4/8 metrics, unusual for classic and romantic culture, the predominance of quiet sound implies tragic pathetic element in “Recitative”. These two parts, “Canon” and “Recitative”, constitute a complementary semantic pair as play modes of tragic imagery embodiment through Baroque era high style, its objective and subjective beginnings. Actually, sonata genre is represented only by the second part “Allegro” with its fast tempo, clarity of form, volitional character of the main theme, scherzo grace of the subsidiary theme, large coda. The composer maintains contrast method choosing his complex of expressive means for each exposition sections. The Sonata is finished by a grand three-theme fugue with metro-rhythmic design associated with the corresponding polyphonic music structures, and more, the initial fifth step corresponds to J. S. Bach’s “Fugue Art”. The first theme’s imperative character establishes the dramatic imagery as fundamental in Sonata’s artistic concept. Its intonational content is characterized by fourth and fifth interval structures, some of them are creating the frame of the whole cycle. The second theme is more melodic and contrasting. The bass register of the third theme in rhythmic augmentation, the wave-like pattern of its melodic line covering the range of the diminished octave, is perceived as embodying of the modern thinking tension, the “echo” of Baroque era aesthetic ideas. The artistic idea of the Sonata for Two Pianos by P. Hindemith is built on drama concentration, overcoming suite separation of the parts and reflecting the full life realities and the inviolability of Universe laws. Conclusions. Sonata for Two Pianos by P. Hindemith returns to its origins thanks to the 20th century artists’ interest to the Baroque culture, demonstrating irregular genre boundaries and the ability to maintain high polyphony means, unregulated cycle and synthesis of several compositional principles within one work. The neoclassical principles did not deprive the Sonata of being presented in that time’s social and spiritual events, and allowed it to generalize modern world conflicts with the help of established semantic and compositional units. Thus, P. Hindemith’s Sonata for Two Pianos preserves its own approach to musical experience and possibilities of ensemble technique distinguished in almost full absence of performing competition idea, dialogism in its traditional reflection while retaining the parties’ equality.

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Obolenska, M. M. "The Accompanist as the Lord of Time (on the Example of Sonata for French Horn and Piano by Jane Vignery)." Problems of Interaction Between Arts, Pedagogy and the Theory and Practice of Education 54, no. 54 (December 10, 2019): 93–107. http://dx.doi.org/10.34064/khnum1-54.06.

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Sonata for French horn and piano by Belgian female composer Jane Vignery (1913–1974), which has not been studied before, is analyzed in the article. The main attention is focused on the role of the pianist-accompanist in the process of composing dramaturgy. Skillful manipulation of musical time is the key to the convincingly constructed dramaturgy of a piece of music. Time management is especially evident in the moments of dramatic knots. By the dramaturgical knot we mean the transition from the completion of one dramaturgical element to the beginning of the next. At the beginning of a piece of music (or part of it) it is the transition from inaction to action, from silence to music. In the proposed chamber sonata, the overwhelming majority of the dramaturgical nodes are entrusted with the part of the solo piano, which forms the hypothesis of the research theme : the successful construction of the dramaturgical profile of the sonata, and, as a result, reporting to the listener a quality product, that can cause an emotional response, depends largely on the pianist’s professional knowledge of time. Objectives. The aim of the article is an attempt to prove the leading role of the piano part in the process of constructing the dramatic relief of the proposed sonata. In connection with the tasks set, the issues of correlating between the concepts of "concertmaster" and "accompanist" are clarified. As a conclusion, we see the central orientation in the activity of the pianist-in-ensemble in the conductor’s work, which includes the coverage of the score of the work and the management of musical time - the most important component of dramatic art. Results. A dramaturgical analysis of the sonata for French horn and piano by Jane Vignery has been made. The strategically important sections of the musical form are discussed and described in detail. The first part of the sonata is represented by the sonata allegro. There is no introduction in the sonata, so the initial impulse with which the pianist will take the first chords is very important. The development of the transition leads to the first culmination wave, which is given entirely to the piano part. Since the second subject part is also performed by the solo piano soloist, the conversion from the transition to the second subject pianist is free to act. Pianist has the right to determine the pace and, consequently, the nature of the second subject party. The development, as well as the previous dramaturgical elements, begins solo in the piano part. The development is crowned by the central culmination of the first movement. And, again, its performance is entrusted to the solo piano. In the second part of the sonata the melodic line, which is set out in the horn part, is performed three times without any changes in the musical notation. Its emotional coloring entirely depends on the nature of the piano texture. It is on the pianist that the formation of the correct dramaturgical profile depends, the development of which moves from the personal-subjective to the extrapersonal-objective. The culminating waves, which precede the second and third realization of the theme, are set out in the solo piano part. It is they who represent the most important dramaturgical nodes of this part. The finale of the sonata begins with a short two-stroke introduction, where the piano must switch moods and set the soloist to the desired character in an instant. The episodes of the final part of the sonata changed before the listener as in the kaleidoscope. The pianist is responsible for the change of pace and, as a result, the mood in each of elements. Based on the numerous audio and video recordings of this sonata, as well as our own practical experience, we offer performing recommendations for the piano part. In addition to analytical work, the article includes biographical data on the little-known composer. Also literary sources, which address to the problem of concertmaster skills are considered and classified in the article. We focused on the significant limitation of the range of problems in this field. Conclusions. The accompanist’s mastery consists not so much in accompanying the soloist, creating a comfortable background for him, but above all in conductor’s work, including the coverage of the score and management of musical time – an essential component of drama. Taking into account the acuteness and urgency of the problem, I emphasize the importance and practical necessity of such a type of performing analysis as concertmaster analysis. It’s not always the case that the development of dramaturgy depends on the will of the soloist. Sonata for French horn and piano by J. Vignery is an illustrative example of a compositional form in which all the key dramaturgical nodes are concentrated in the part of the solo piano. Performed according to the laws of dramaturgical logic, this sonata is capable of producing a tremendous effect on the listener. Despite the fact that it is considered a French horn sonata and requires the highest professionalism from the soloist, the construction of the dramatic relief is entirely subordinated to the skills of the concertmaster.

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Qian, Jie. "Analysis of the Similarities between the Third Movement of Beethoven: Piano Sonata "Passion"(OP.57) and the Third Movement of the Piano Concerto NO 5 "Emperors" (OP.73)." Highlights in Art and Design 1, no. 3 (November 13, 2022): 15–18. http://dx.doi.org/10.54097/hiaad.v1i3.2706.

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Ludwig van Beethoven (1770-1827) was a representative composer in the European classical period. His Piano Sonata "Passion" (OP.57) and Piano Concerto NO.5 "Emperor" (OP.73) are masterpieces in Beethoven's piano music literature. This article will explore the commonness of these two works, which were created in Beethoven's mature period, in terms of creative techniques, musical style, historical status, etc., and strive to deepen the understanding of Beethoven's piano works in his mature period.

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Gilmore, Bob. "SPECTRAL TECHNIQUES IN HORATIU RADULESCU'S SECOND PIANO SONATA." Tempo 64, no. 252 (April 2010): 66–78. http://dx.doi.org/10.1017/s0040298210000197.

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This article offers an analysis of the Second Piano Sonata ‘being and non-being create each other’, op. 82 (1990–91) by Horatiu Radulescu (1942–2008), the first work in which Radulescu applied the spectral techniques he had developed in his music since the late 1960s to that most apparently unpromising of instrumental media for this type of approach: the solo, equal-tempered piano. And it has a quite specific aim: to analyse Radulescu's sonata in a descriptive language as close as possible to that used by the composer himself.

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Yoon, Moonyoung, and Jiyoung Yoon. ""A Musical Analysis of Sonata for Flute and Piano by Paul Hindemith -Focusing on Neoclassical Characteristics "." Journal of Humanities and Social sciences 21 12, no. 4 (August 31, 2021): 1493–504. http://dx.doi.org/10.22143/hss21.12.4.106.

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Frățilă, Lioara. "An Analysis of the Piano Sonata in C Minor, Op. 4 by Frédéric Chopin." Studia Universitatis Babeş-Bolyai Musica 66, no. 1 (June 30, 2021): 245–72. http://dx.doi.org/10.24193/subbmusica.2021.1.16.

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"The aura of the composer Frédéric Chopin penetrated the Western European musical culture, touching massively other cultures as well, up to the Chinese one; the certainty through which we recognize the thrill of this aura is mostly due to the fact that ”Chopin’s compositions have opened a new era in the piano’s history”. Being present in the Parisian salon with Rossini and Liszt, the great Pole achieved an organic interweaving between the tradition of Austro-German and French music. The analysis of the sonata No. 1 in C-minor op. 4 builds the core of the present study and relevantly denotes the connection of its architecture together with the set of conventions belonging to the format of the sonata-genre coming from Beethoven. As we know, the Sonata-pattern designed by Beethoven was expanded throughout the Romantic period as well as the conditions under which the aesthetics of Romanticism found a specific corridor reaching its maximum of expression. In a way of an idiomatic, natural model of transmission, the Chopin’s style of conceiving music played its predominant role. Taking into account in this approach theories belonging to the aesthetics field and some theoretical applications with significance for understanding the levers of construction concerning this sonata, op. 4 (composed when the composer was only eighteen (1828)) and Chopin’s approach of the other stages of emancipation within the genre, I will highlight its rules which emphasize implicitly the dialogue with the ”Sonata-Fantasy” genre, as this construct appears (for instance) in sonata op. 58. Keywords: language, two themes sonata, polyphony, form, evolution "

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Obolenska, Mariia. "Emotional Intelligence of a Pianist-Accompanist (on the Example of C. Franck's Violin Sonata Performed by Martha Argerich)." Bulletin of Kyiv National University of Culture and Arts. Series in Musical Art 5, no. 2 (December 22, 2022): 127–40. http://dx.doi.org/10.31866/2616-7581.5.2.2022.269639.

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The purpose of the research is to identify the regularities of emotional intelligence in the process of concert activity of a pianist-accompanist. Emotional intelligence is a powerful means of communication between a pianist-accompanist and a soloist. Understanding the mechanisms of such psychological activity and their implementation in the creative process is an essential condition for the professional literacy of the accompanist. The research methodology. The main tool in the research is the method of analytical observation, which is based on the comparison of stationary and variable data. The fixed data are a piece of music and a pianist e. g. violin sonata by C. Franck and M. Argerich. The variables are different soloists, musical instruments, years of performance, and the presence of the audience. The scientific novelty of the research. The article considers 15 performing versions of the sonata. The analysis of interpretations focuses on two semantic planes: general parameters of the work and strategic places in the sonata. The general parameters are the tempos of the sonata’s parts, the integrity of the work from the point of view of the thorough development, the distribution of roles in the ensemble, and the degree of contact between the accompanist and the soloist. The strategic points of the sonata include piano entrances and losses, culminations, leitmotifs (the degree of flexibility of the intonation in relation to the soloist’s presentation), and some pianistically and ensemble difficult places. Conclusions. The interpretations are classified by the degree of inclusion of the accompanist in the artistic process. Depending on the strictness of following the author’s text and the intensity of the soloist's individuality, 3 types are distinguished: classical (the lowest degree of inclusion of emotional intelligence), romantic (the average degree of activity), and expressionist (the highest activity of emotional intelligence).

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Van Dyck, Elias. "A Multi-Layered Monolith : Beyond the Surface of Loudness in Galina Ustvolskaya's Sixth Piano Sonata." Music Theory and Analysis (MTA) 8, no. 1 (April 30, 2021): 152–65. http://dx.doi.org/10.11116/mta.8.1.8.

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The forbidding harshness of Galina Ustvolskaya's Sixth Piano Sonata can easily be associated with the spiritual and reductively statuesque imagery associated with this composer. Adapting and expanding an initial classification by Andreas Holzer and Tatiana Marković, this article proposes an in-depth analysis of loudness in Ustvolskaya's final piano composition. A detailed overview shows how she uses expanding cluster types, accentuation, and rising intensity to create prolonged dynamic arcs where at first glance dynamic progression appears to be largely flat. I go on to identify three moments of musical climax, all of which seem to articulate the golden ratio for an important subsection of the sonata. Based on these observations, I formulate two contrasting interpretations, one teleologically orientated, the other symmetrical, which show that the Sonata is governed by the tension between two distinct types of formal logic. My analysis uncovers a surprisingly multi-faceted structure, one that belies the austere image of "the composer with the hammer."

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Ballengee, Christopher. "Tonality and Neoclassicism in Stravinsky’s Sonata for Piano, Mvt. 2 (1924)." Interdisciplinary Studies in Musicology, no. 21 (November 1, 2021): 9–21. http://dx.doi.org/10.14746/ism.2021.21.1.

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Igor Stravinsky’s Sonata for Piano is an often overlooked yet important artifact of the composer’s neoclassicism. his treatment of tonality in the second movement is both literally and aurally more conventional than one might first guess. Stravinsky’s reliance on convention points to an ideology of continuity, one that honors the legacy of beethoven and other heroes. In doing so, Stravinsky’s Sonata brings forward old ideas wrought in new ways for a modern era. This essay examines ways of thinking about Stravinsky’s neoclassic style through analysis of the second movement of the Sonata focusing on the use of post-tonal techniques to create surprisingly tonal music.

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Porębski, Adam. "Piano Sonatas by Ryszard Bukowski – a search of interpretative keys." Notes Muzyczny 2, no. 12 (December 13, 2019): 115–36. http://dx.doi.org/10.5604/01.3001.0013.7171.

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Performing a forgotten piece or work by a not-well-known composer is always a great challenge for an artist. The fact that there are no recordings, no performance traditions or at least an arranged and published score is not conductive to a decision to include such a piece in one’s repertoire. Which elements should a performer pay attention to while working on unknown contemporary pieces? Aside from the emotions and intuition, which influence the shape of a composition in a natural way, he or she should also refer to the intellectual side of interpretation. The issue to reflect on is the way how the knowledge and awareness of the form of a work, its texture, harmony, rhythm and other elements of a music piece may influence the final shape of its interpretation. Ryszard Bukowski – a composer, music theoretician, journalist and organiser of musical life became a permanent part of the musical cityscape of Wrocław of the afterwar period. His numerous compositions include works for diversified line-ups, from solo pieces to vocal-and-instrumental ones. As a skilful pianist, Bukowski eagerly wrote music featuring the piano, and the works he composed the most frequently were solo sonatas. Writing as many as ten piano sonatas took him only a little more than a decade. Was the title of a piece what made the composer refer to this very traditional form thanks to its genre significance? Or was it just the opposite, i.e., with the title being merely a provocation? Perhaps Bukowski’s characteristic creative feature was combining tradition with modernity and on the basis of traditional formal patterns he proposed original solutions in reference to harmony, rhythm or texture? The article analyses Bukowski’s Piano Sonatas no. 2, 5, 9 and 10 in terms of their performance.

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Jakobidze-Gitman, Alexander S. "WHY WAS VLADIMIR LENIN ALWAYS HAPPY TO LISTEN TO BEETHOVEN’S APPASSIONATA?" Articult, no. 1 (2022): 6–17. http://dx.doi.org/10.28995/2227-6165-2022-1-6-17.

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The article analyses Maxim Gorky's account of Vladimir Lenin's visit to a home concert in 1920 and its screen adaptation by director Yuri Vyshinsky (1963). The author questions the possible reasons for the Soviet leader's particular predilection for Beethoven's Appassionata (piano sonata op. 57). The main subject of the study is Lenin's ambivalent attitude towards this piano sonata: on the one hand, he is ready to listen to it every day; on the other hand, it evokes in him too human emotions that hamper his activities as a revolutionary leader. The article traces possible sources that may have influenced Lenin’s perception of Beethoven's music and compares some structural elements of the Appassionata with the dialectic of spontaneity and consciousness from Lenin’s revolutionary theory.

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STEELE, KENNETH M. "Do Rats Show a Mozart Effect?" Music Perception 21, no. 2 (2003): 251–65. http://dx.doi.org/10.1525/mp.2003.21.2.251.

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The ““Mozart effect”” is an increase in spatial reasoning scores after listening to a Mozart piano sonata. Both the production and interpretation of the effect are controversial. Many studies have failed to replicate the original effect. Other studies have explained a Mozart effect as being caused by changes in arousal or differences in preferences of the listener. F. H. Rauscher, K. D. Robinson, and J. J. Jens (1998) reported that rats learned to complete a T-maze more quickly if they had been exposed in utero and reared hearing a Mozart piano sonata. They concluded that the result indicated a direct effect of the music on brain development and contradicted competing accounts of arousal or preference. This article is an analysis of the experiment by Rauscher et al. The in utero exposure would have been ineffective because rats are born deaf. A comparison of human and rat audiograms, in the context of the frequencies produced by a piano, suggests that adult rats are deaf to most notes in the sonata. The successful performance of the Mozart group may be explained by the incomplete use of random assignment of subjects to groups and by experimenter effects in the construction of groups. The results of Rauscher et al. (1998) do not provide strong support for the existence of the Mozart effect.

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Taran, Vladimir. "CREATIONS WITH THE PARTICIPATION OF THE BASSOON SIGNED BY VLADIMIR ROTARU." Akademos 60, no. 1 (June 2021): 134–36. http://dx.doi.org/10.52673/18570461.21.1-60.18.

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Vladimir Rotaru is one of the famous composers from the Republic of Moldova, whose compositions include both orchestral and chamber-instrumental works. In this article, the author made a brief analysis of the repertoire for bassoon that includes both solo and chamber compositions, such as Suite for flute, oboe, clarinet, and bassoon; Monothematic metamorphoses; Sonata-dialogue for bassoon and piano; Caprice for bassoon and piano. The aim of the article concerned is reviewing the creations for bassoon signed by Vladimir Rotaru, being in a succinct language features and architectonic creations componentistic concerned.

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Rumiantseva, A. Yu. "Lucas Debargue’s performing interpretation as a new horizon for understanding the artistic space of N. Medtner’s Sonata fmoll, op. 5." Culture of Ukraine, no. 75 (March 21, 2022): 103–8. http://dx.doi.org/10.31516/2410-5325.075.13.

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The relevance. The development of piano performance is the result of the interaction of two alternatives — tradition and innovation. Innovations emerge and are affirmed, overcoming the conservative resistance of traditional performance stamps. Each new stage of this evolutionary process is marked by the appearance on the musical horizon of bright names of pianists, who, stunning the audience with their unexpected performance decisions, break established traditions and form new landmarks for performing and perceiving musical works. In the modern space of world piano performance, such a unique musician is the French pianist Luc Debarg. In his extraordinary interpretations, the pianist convincingly demonstrates the new organics of performance and reflects the latest pianistic trends, which deserves special attention and determines the relevance of the study. The purpose of the article consists in realizing the performing conception of Lucas Debargue regarding the N. Medtner’s Sonata f-moll, op. 5 through identification of performing stylistics features of the French pianist. The topicality of the article. The research material was: the musical text of the Sonata f-moll, op. 5 M. Medtner; videorecording of the performance of the Sonata by Luc Debargue and Boris Berezovsky. The methodology. The study used a historical approach, the method of comparative analysis, musicological and performing analysis The result. In musical performance and musicology, N. Medtner’s Sonata f-moll, Op. 5 is grasped as retrospective in the nature of imagery. It is characterized usually by a deep but restrained melancholy, nobility, perfection of form, density and graphic texture, lack of colorism. Lucas Debargue sees the Sonata as a symbol of cultural memory. The texture becomes transparent and differentiated, each of the texture layers seems to be visually filled with color and acquires semantic meaning. Comparing textured layers during performance forms an idea of “traveling” through different time spaces. Strengthening the texture and semantic allusions of M. Medtner’s text, L. Debargue, using well-established, historically characteristic types of articulation, corresponds to the style of J. S. Bach, D. Scarlatti, R. Schumann, F. Chopin, S. Rachmaninoff, A. Scriabin. Through a carefully constructed system of interaction between microagogics, microdynamics, and texture density, the pianist forms a through image — memories that are revived by the memory but do not lose their brightness. So, the leading principle of L. Debargue’s performing style is the modernization of texts of past eras. The pianist offers a post-romantic concept of reading N. Medtner’s Sonata, which actualizes the polylogue of musical and historical eras. The scientific novelty. For the first time in musicology, the features of L. Debargue’s performing style are studied. The practical significance. The results of the work can be applied in the training courses «Piano», «History of piano performance», in further scientific researches.

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Granot, Roni Y., and Nori Jacoby. "Musically puzzling II: Sensitivity to overall structure in a Haydn E-minor sonata." Musicae Scientiae 16, no. 1 (November 23, 2011): 67–80. http://dx.doi.org/10.1177/1029864911423146.

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Previous studies have suggested that listeners are insensitive to the overall tonal structure of musical pieces. In Part I of this report ( Granot & Jacoby, 2011 ) we reexamined this question by means of a puzzle task using 10 segments of Mozart’s B flat major piano sonata K. 570/I. As expected, subjects had difficulty in recreating the original piece. However, their answers revealed some interesting patterns, including (1) Some sensitivity to the overall structure of A–B–A’ around the non-stable B section; (2) Non-trivial sensitivity to overall “directionality” as shown by a new type of analysis (“distance score”); (3) Correct grouping and placement of developmental sections possibly related to listener’s sensitivity to musical tension; and (4) Sensitivity to opening and closing gestures, thematic similarity, and surface cues. In the current paper we further validate these findings by comparing the results obtained from a new group of participants who performed an 8-segment puzzle task of Haydn’s E minor piano sonata Hob. VXI-34/I. The similarity of our results to those obtained with the Mozart sonata validates our methods and points to the robustness of our findings, despite the differences in the music contexts (composer and key), and despite some methodological caveats.

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박지영. "Analysis of Mozart’s Piano Sonata Form: the Second Part of Exposition." journal of Ewha Music Research Institute 22, no. 2 (June 2018): 1–36. http://dx.doi.org/10.17254/jemri.2018.22.2.001.

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Ohgushi, Kengo. "An analysis of timing microstructure in Mozart’s piano sonata K.331." Journal of the Acoustical Society of America 120, no. 5 (November 2006): 3204. http://dx.doi.org/10.1121/1.4788101.

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Lee, Ju-Hyun, and Jong-Kun Lee. "Analysis and Modeling of Piano Sonata(K.332) through Petri nets." Journal of Korea Multimedia Society 17, no. 11 (November 30, 2014): 1296–306. http://dx.doi.org/10.9717/kmms.2014.17.11.1296.

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Saulova, Inessa. "SONATA FOR VIOLIN AND PIANO BY VLADIMIR ROTARU: PECULIARITIES OF THE MUSICAL LANGUAGE, COMPOSITION AND DRAMATURGY." Studiul artelor şi culturologie: istorie, teorie, practică, no. 1(42) (August 2022): 54–58. http://dx.doi.org/10.55383/amtap.2022.1.10.

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The Sonata for violin and piano by Vladimir Rotaru has long been included in the pedagogical repertoire of the class of the chamber ensemble of the Academy of Music, Theater and Fine Arts, as it is distinguished by the originality of the compositional idea and vivid images. The Sonata is also representative from the point of view of the typical features of the author’s style associated with the influence of national folklore. This article provides an analysis of the musical language, composition and dramaturgy of this work, since the perception of the peculiarities of the figurative development and structural design of music is necessary for musicians to develop an appropriate performance version. It is concluded that the two-part structure of the Sonata reflects the combination of Doina and dance, typical of Moldovan folklore and the complex intonational and rhythmic organization gives the work a contemporary character.

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Gheorghieva, Maria. "THE TEXTURE OF SONATA-REMINISCENZA (ОР. 38, NO.1) BY NIKOLAY MEDTNER THROUGH THE PRISM OF INTERPRETATIVE TASKS." Studiul artelor şi culturologie: istorie, teorie, practică, no. 1(42) (September 2022): 91–97. http://dx.doi.org/10.55383/amtap.2022.1.17.

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The article analyzes the Sonata-reminiscenza of Nikolai Medtner from the point of view of the types of piano texture used in it. It is about such distinctive qualities of the musical texture of this work as graphicity, a combination of homophonic-harmonic and polyphonic structure, the relationship between the position in the form and the type of textural design. Starting from the thesis about the priority of the content of musical thematism, the author concludes that only a close analysis of the compositional and dramatic features of the Sonata-reminiscenza of N. Medtner for the performer can become the key to creating an adequate performing concept of the composition and to comprehending its textural features.

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Brown, Julie Hedges. "Study, Copy, and Conquer." Journal of Musicology 30, no. 3 (2013): 369–423. http://dx.doi.org/10.1525/jm.2013.30.3.369.

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Schumann's 1842 chamber music exemplifies a common theme in his critical writings, that to sustain a notable inherited tradition composers must not merely imitate the past but reinvent it anew. Yet Schumann's innovative practices have not been sufficiently acknowledged, partly because his instrumental repertory seemed conservative to critics of Schumann's day and beyond, especially when compared to his earlier experimental piano works and songs. This essay offers a revisionist perspective by exploring three chamber movements that recast sonata procedure in one of two complementary ways: either the tonic key monopolizes the exposition (as in the first movement of the Piano Quartet in E♭ major, op. 47), or a modulating main theme undercuts a definitive presence of the tonic key at the outset (as in the first movement of the String Quartet in A major, op. 41, no. 3, and the finale of the String Quartet in A minor, op. 41, no. 1). Viewed against conventional sonata practice, these chamber movements appear puzzling, perhaps even incoherent or awkward, since they thwart the tonal contrast of keys so characteristic of the form. Yet these unusual openings, and the compelling if surprising ramifications that they prompt, signal not compositional weakness but rather an effort to reinterpret the form as a way of strengthening its expressive power. My analyses also draw on other perspectives to illuminate these sonata forms. All three movements adopt a striking thematic idea or formal ploy that evokes a specific Beethovenian precedent; yet each movement also highlights Schumann’s creative distance from his predecessor by departing in notable ways from the conjured model. Aspects of Schumann’s sketches, especially those concerning changes made during the compositional process, also illuminate relevant analytical points. Finally, in the analysis of the finale of the A-minor quartet, I consider how Schumann’s evocation of Hungarian Gypsy music may be not merely incidental to but supportive of his reimagined sonata form. Ultimately, the perspectives offered here easily accommodate—even celebrate—Schumann’s idiosyncratic approach to sonata form. They also demonstrate that Schumann’s earlier experimental tendencies did not contradict his efforts in the early 1840s to further advance his inherited classical past.

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Го, Шаоин. "Violin sonata fis-moll by Paul Natorp in the context of genre development." Вестник Адыгейского государственного университета, серия «Филология и искусствоведение», no. 2(277) (October 6, 2021): 189–94. http://dx.doi.org/10.53598/2410-3489-2021-2-277-189-194.

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Исследуется творчество композитора-философа Пауля Наторпа, фигура которого в русскоязычном музыкознании практически не представлена. Отдавая себе отчет в том, что его творчество может вызывать интерес с самых разных точек зрения, мы фокусируем свой научный интерес на Сонате fis-moll для скрипки и фортепиано, созданной в период активного формирования новых художественных течений в музыке начала ХХ века. На примере произведений так называемого «второго ряда» Соната fis-moll может служить довольно ярким примером процессов обновления музыкального языка, в том числе на основе переосмысления классического наследия. Музыковедческий анализ Сонаты для скрипки и фортепиано fis-moll осуществляется в опоре на историко-стилевой метод и интертекстуальность. Доказано, что, будучи созданной в русле традиций Бетховена, Шумана и Брамса, Соната fis-moll для скрипки и фортепиано отмечена самобытностью и оригинальностью. Теоретическая значимость работы определяется заполнением лакуны в истории становления жанра скрипичной сонаты в немецкой композиторской школе. Практическая значимость связана с возможностью обогатить скрипичный репертуар за счет знакомства с камерным жанром, представленным в творчестве немецкого музыканта-философа. This work is dedicated to the work of the composer-philosopher Paul Natorp, whose figure is in practice not represented in Russian-language musicology. Realizing that P. Natorp's work can arouse interest from a variety of points of view, we focus our scientific interest on the fis-moll Sonata for violin and piano, created during the active formation of new artistic trends in music at the beginning of the twentieth century. Using the works of the so-called “ second row” as an example, the fis-moll Sonata can serve as a vivid example of the processes of updating the musical language, including on the basis of rethinking the classical heritage. The musicological analysis of the fis-moll Sonata for violin and piano is based on the historical-stylistic method and intertextuality. It is proved that, being created in line with the traditions of Beethoven, Schumann and Brahms, the fis-moll Sonata for violin and piano by P. Natorp is noted for its musical identity and originality. The theoretical significance of the work lies in filling a gap in the history of the formation of the violin sonata genre in the German school of composition. Practical significance is associated with the opportunity to enrich the violin repertoire through acquaintance with the chamber genre presented in the works of the German musician-philosopher.

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Tudor, Brînduşa. "Number 13 / Part I. Music. 11. Great Contemporary Pianists in Interpretative Dialogue: Alfred Brendel and Murray Perahia." Review of Artistic Education 13, no. 1 (March 1, 2017): 93–98. http://dx.doi.org/10.1515/rae-2017-0011.

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Abstract The choice of valuable interpretative versions is highly important for both pianists on their way to performance and teachers in their complex activity of piano training. These become real models of esthetical thinking and artistic inspiration in the approach of a musical work. We shall use Sonata in D minor D 958 by Franz Schubert as an interpretative analysis model in the view of the pianists Alfred Brendel and Murray Perahia.

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Tsybikova-Danzyn, Inessa Aleksandrovna. "Realization of ethnic traditions in piano music of the Buryat composer Y. I. Irdyneev." Человек и культура, no. 4 (April 2020): 151–61. http://dx.doi.org/10.25136/2409-8744.2020.4.33027.

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  One of the relevant tasks of the modern science of music is the examination of ethnic cultures. The object of this research is the piano music of the Buryat composer Yuri Irineevich Irdyneev. The subject is the peculiarities of realization of ethnic traditions in his piano compositions. The article analyzes opuses for the piano created during the composer's study at the conservatory, attributed to his early period. Based on the analysis of piano compositions, which became a so-called “creative laboratory” of Y. I. Irdyneev, the author traces the evolution of his style: since the first experiments of working with folk material in the piano cycle "Six Children Musical Compositions", through the reference to a romantic genre in the cycle "Three Improvisations", to a monumental conclusion of his creative pursuits – “The Piano Sonata” (1971). For understanding the uniqueness of composer's style, the carried out a comprehensive analysis of piano compositions, which includes examination of each piece from the perspective intonation, tonal and harmonious development, peculiarities of imagery sphere and dramaturgy. Emphasis is made on the specifics of performing interpretation of the ethnic piano compositions. The novelty lies in determination of systemic correlations of Y. I. Irdyneev's piano music with the national and European music traditions. It is concluded that the uniqueness of his piano heritage consists in the profound and multifaceted realization of ethnic traditions in the piano compositions. The author underlines the defining role of Buryat folklore, traditional festivities, songs, dances, imitation of the sound of folk instruments, philosophical and worldview constants in the formation of composer's style. The piano music of Y. I. Irdyneev is known for the original palette of artistic images, which evokes rich emotions and associations. The composer employs the traditional genres along with modern compositional techniques, bringing individuality by means of intonation-thematic material, Buryat ethnic origins and modality, as well as ways of working with thematic material. Yuri Irdyneev has enriched Buryat music with a number of new techniques of musical expression (sonorous consonances, clusters, dodecaphony), and significantly contributed to the piano educational and pedagogical repertoire for the music educational institutions of Buryatia.  

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