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Българските клавирни концерти и тенденциите в жанровата сфера през седемдесетте години на ХХ век
Bulgarian Piano Concerts and Tendencies within the Genre during the 1970s

Author(s): Snezhina Vrangova
Subject(s): Music
Published by: Институт за изследване на изкуствата, Българска академия на науките

Summary/Abstract: The piano concert is a significant phenomenon in the creative history of Bulgarian music. During the 1970s the concert sphere was stratified by many different approaches with respect to process, performing groups, balance between the soloist and the orchestra, and between instruments in the orchestra as a whole. Some of the leading tendencies in genre development during this period include “chamber-ness,” genre synthesis and increased interest in timbre. Their mutual interactions led to the creation of models that were unique simultaneously in terms of their synthetic genre basis and their accent on timbre. This expanded the arena of genre by emphasizing the periphery, which was interconnected with the center, which is associated with works with more traditional dramaturgical interpretations. Reasons behind the activeness of the concert model during the 1970s include creative and social necessity, the growing role of the interpreter, and the consideration of tradition as a possible appearance of continuity in culture and in the creative consciousness. The concert genre formed as a dynamic category, capable of orienting itself towards various stylistic conditions and of assimilating a wide range of genre methods and as a field for interaction and synthesis of various levels. Devoid of imminent structural characteristics, the piano concert began to express much more the free movement of the creative idea, rather than a definite formal type. In the variety of its genre realizations in each of the examined cases, the concert preserves its most essential layer – the state of dialogue, improvisation and the possibility for social identification. Interpretations during this period categorically show the synchronicity of Bulgarian culture with that of Europe. The range of creative interpretations transforms the concert into a holistic creative and social model. Precisely in the context of this possibility in the social-cultural situation of the time and the constant synchronizing and enlarging of cultural and geopolitical boundaries, “the concert” resounded with particular topicality as a metaphor for the united cultural space.

  • Issue Year: 2008
  • Issue No: 2
  • Page Range: 54-81
  • Page Count: 28
  • Language: Bulgarian