ASPECTS OF PEDAL USE IN TUDOR JARDA’S CREATION
ASPECTS OF PEDAL USE IN TUDOR JARDA’S CREATION

Summary/Abstract: For the musicologist, noticing a composer’s predilection for a particular technical procedure does not represent an ultimate goal, but an early stage of the research, an invitation to analysis. It is only from this point on that there raises a multitude of questions that are waiting to be answered to: "what are the reasons for the predilection? ", "can there be established correlations between the recurrent use of the procedure in question and the composer’s intention of communication, his musical conception? "; "can there be identified certain distinctive and defining characteristics?" etc. In this endeavor, the musicologist sometimes has the chance of a priceless ally: a theoretical work of the composer – a decanting of his artistic vision. This is in short the story of the present study, which started from a finding inferred from the musical concreteness (the relatively frequent use of the harmonic pedal in Tudor Jarda's choral creation), received an extremely useful theoretical support (the musicological volume signed by the composer) and sought to answer to the questions above.

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