Amy Beach and Ellen Taaffe Zwilich: the women’s pages of American Chamber Music Cover Image

Эми Бич и Эллен Таафе Звилич: женские страницы американской камерной музыки Цель работы.
Amy Beach and Ellen Taaffe Zwilich: the women’s pages of American Chamber Music

Author(s): Alisa Smarichevskaya
Subject(s): Music, Recent History (1900 till today), Sociology of Art
Published by: Національна академія керівних кадрів культури і мистецтв
Keywords: instrumental trio; intonation analysis; American chamber music; Amy Beach; Ellen Taaffe Zwilich;

Summary/Abstract: This research is related to highlighting of genre features chamber music of women-composers Amy Beach and Ellen Taafe Zwilich. Methodology. The methodology of research is based on the principles of comparative and integrated analysis a chamber trio of American composers Amy Beach and Ellen Taafe Zwilich. Scientific novelty. The scientific novelty of the research consist in the implementation in Ukrainian musicology the intonation and dramatic analysis of little-known musical works of American musical culture of the 20th century, particularly the chamber trio of composers Amy Beach and Ellen Taafe Zwilich. These composers represent an original approach to interpretation of genre on the compositional and imaginative levels. The analysis of chamber trio of Amy Beach and Ellen Taafe Zwilich allows us tracing the evolution of genre trio in the musical works of these composers and also identifying the differences in its interpretation. Conclusions. The unexplored in Ukrainian musicology the musical works of American composers Amy Beach and Ellen Taafe Zwilich open for the domestic musicology a new prospects for a thorough study not only the chamber and instrumental music of these composers, but also as a whole of the American musical culture of the 20th century. This research enables to comprehend the emotional and imaginative depth of chamber trio Amy Beach and Ellen Taafe Zwilich and trigger the interest for their concert performance, in particular, on the big stage.

  • Issue Year: 2016
  • Issue No: 37
  • Page Range: 182-192
  • Page Count: 11
  • Language: Ukrainian