Ramifications. Interweaved memories
Ramifications. Interweaved memories

Summary/Abstract: In the article Ramifications: interweaved memories, the author combines unique aspects with a memorial character – in which the memories and things lived or shared are interweaved with the professional ones, related to the most significant evolutions of contemporary music. In the second part of the article, Irányi analyzes 3 works by Cornel Țăranu: Dialogues II, Raccords and Bachiana.The article analytically demonstrates the realization of a synthesis in Cornel Țăranu’s music between the transfigured elements of folklore (like the melismatic doina, bucium signals and parlando-rubato) with some advanced techniques of current music (sound beams, post-webernian chromatism and controlled aleatory). For a composer, the certainty of artistic fulfillment in his own creation is also a sign of a favorable constellation. On the occasion of reaching the venerable age of 85, the composer Cornel Țăranu can look back on his own creation of vast proportions and significant, at the same time. What could be noticed from the beginning of the creative path in the 50s and 60s to the young composer Cornel Țăranu, was that he found already his own style, with well-defined characteristics. The ability to have a “voice of one’s own”, with rich inflections and expressiveness, is not at all common in contemporary music. In this jubilee context, I often wondered: what were the significant moments in which I was impressed by Cornel Țăranu’s music? Memories related to lived things or shared artistic opinions are interweaved – as in Ramifications by Ligeti – with those related to concerts, which de facto finalize the actual creative act.

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