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Студията на Иван Качулев Виковете на амбулантните продавачи и нейните проекции в авторското творчество
Ivan Kachulev’s Study Shouting of the Peddlers and its Projections in Composer’s Work

Author(s): Stefan Dragostinov
Subject(s): Music
Published by: Институт за изследване на изкуствата, Българска академия на науките

Summary/Abstract: This article voices the thoughts of the author on the reverberations from the study of Ivan Kachulev “Shouting of the Peddlers and Craftsmen in Bulgaria” in his personal works of a composer. Exactly this study (documenting the different voices distinguishable in a Babylon fair) makes Stefan Dragostinov come up with the idea of the so called mundane polytempy (in everyday life), that is a coinage representing the “mingling of everyday life voices” into an artistic work and the quest for their mergence, estrangement and cross-points – every voice/layer has its own dynamics and intonation profile, different rhythm and a tempo of its own. Such an idea is realized by the composer in the choir works “The Fair” (Polytemps 1, 1978), Polytemps 3 (1979) and the cantata Happy Music (1999). All the three scores treat the voice instrumentally: virtuous quasi instrumental passages, cascading glissando ups and downs; flattertzunge “explosions”, dyna-mic percussion blocks; quasi flagiolette, falsetto coloured sound areas; quasi cluster accumulations and seemingly amorphous sonor taints, which in the dynamic nuance pppp<mp resemble a folklore pulsation and breathing due to the incrusted in them four or five tone serial treated makam structures. Jointly, the composer pays great attention to the sonor power, and the different rhythmic power of the disintegrated to sillables words in the lyrics. At such a finding of the interrelations between a sound and word semantics, he reaches a characteristic sonor-verbal minimalism.

  • Issue Year: 2006
  • Issue No: 3
  • Page Range: 101-108
  • Page Count: 8
  • Language: Bulgarian