The musicality of John Augusta Kisielewski's Sonata. Analysis of selected components Cover Image

Muzyczność Sonaty Jana Augusta Kisielewskiego. Analiza wybranych komponentów
The musicality of John Augusta Kisielewski's Sonata. Analysis of selected components

Author(s): Monika Listowska
Subject(s): Fine Arts / Performing Arts, Music
Published by: Wydawnictwo Uniwersytetu Jagiellońskiego
Keywords: muzyczność; stematyzowanie muzyki; dramat; Sonata; Jan August Kisielewski; forma sonatowa

Summary/Abstract: The article discusses the subject matter of filiations of literature and music. In Sonata by Jan August Kisielewski, they are revealed in the field of thematization. Andrzej Hejmej customarily defines this plane as Type II musicality. The main carrier of meanings in the drama becomes the title. It generates the significance of the work and emphasizes its interdisciplinary nature. It also indicates the occurrence of a specifi c musical structure in the text. It is a sonata form, constituting a composition model of the drama and determining the axis of its construction. The presence of musical connotations in Kisielewski’s Sonata is indicated on many levels, including: through an artistic motif, a clear reference to the Song of Songs, the auditive layer of the work.

  • Issue Year: 11/2014
  • Issue No: 3
  • Page Range: 217-231
  • Page Count: 15
  • Language: Polish