ANALYTICAL JOURNEYS IN THREE PIECES FOR CLARINET SOLO BY CORNEL ŢĂRANU Cover Image

ANALYTICAL JOURNEYS IN THREE PIECES FOR CLARINET SOLO BY CORNEL ŢĂRANU
ANALYTICAL JOURNEYS IN THREE PIECES FOR CLARINET SOLO BY CORNEL ŢĂRANU

Author(s): Cristian Bence–Muk
Subject(s): Music
Published by: Studia Universitatis Babes-Bolyai
Keywords: clarinet; creation; contemporary; nucleous; elaboration; reprise.

Summary/Abstract: Three pieces for clarinet solo by Cornel Țăranu carry the compositional impression of the ‘80s highlighting a perfect – micro and macrostructural – balance between construction and freedom. The first piece, Toccata ostinato, builds arrhythmic ostinato on a repeated sound, in alternation with a melodic “pattern” of modal-chromatic essence. The second piece, Improvisazione, was written long time before the other two and represents a median contrast, where the sonorous discourse is delivered in a quasi-improvisational development. The third piece, Cadenza, is based on a nucleous made up of (major and minor) second and augmented fourth, transposed and built on various sounds, serving to an expressivity close to that of the lament, suggestively presented by the descending glissando.

  • Issue Year: 58/2013
  • Issue No: 1
  • Page Range: 199-213
  • Page Count: 15
  • Language: English