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Понятието „обективен материал“ като инструмент на музикалната иновация в творчеството на Димитър Христов
The Concept Objective Material as a Tool of Music Innovation in the Creative Work of Dimiter Christoff

Author(s): Elisaveta Valchinova-Chendova
Subject(s): Music
Published by: Институт за изследване на изкуствата, Българска академия на науките

Summary/Abstract: The text is dedicated to the 75th birthday anniversary of Prof. Dimiter Christoff , D.Sc. – a composer and music theorist. Elisaveta Valchinova-Chendova defines the creative work of Dimiter Christoff as an original vision The Path to The New Music (in Webern’s formulation) associated with radical changes in musical language. Dimiter Christoff ’s theoretical conception of monody is essential for understanding his music. The author builds her own interpretation, highlighting two key words – individual enlightenment, that are at the heart of composer’s own vision for 20th century music. Dimiter Christoff has been always striving to achieve a full impact through a new musical language. In the title of this text are used the terms: objective material and tool. Over the years, Dimiter Christoff has examined the concept objective material in a series of texts (it has a determinative meaning for him, with which he indicated the initial material). With the term tool is formulated composer’s approach as a type of program, similar to virtual programs, through which the composer had constructed a new type of musical language and sound space, revealing his creative imagination. It could be traced in details how this tool/program is transforming the objective material in a new quality. And this is the transformation of the concept objective material in a composition method. Using this archetypal thinking Dimiter Christoff has built his vision for sound space, which is a space of structured and deployed sound archetypes. Dimiter Christoff does not set completed forms, he is constructing forms, which he leaves open. His music is developing new senses and interpretation skills in the performer as well as in the listener, creating a new vision for the new music.

  • Issue Year: 2009
  • Issue No: 3-4
  • Page Range: 123-131
  • Page Count: 9
  • Language: Bulgarian