Musical Idioms as Meaningful and Expressive constants. Marek Piaček. Apolloopera - A Melodrama about Bombing for the Choir, Actor and Trombone Cover Image

Hudobné idiómy ako významové a výrazové konštanty. Marek Piaček. Apolloopera, melodráma o jednom bombardovaní pre zbor, herca a trombón
Musical Idioms as Meaningful and Expressive constants. Marek Piaček. Apolloopera - A Melodrama about Bombing for the Choir, Actor and Trombone

Author(s): Renáta Beličová
Subject(s): Music, Aesthetics
Published by: Spoločnosť pre estetiku na Slovensku a Inštitút estetiky a umeleckej kultúry Filozofickej fakulty Prešovskej univerzity v Prešove
Keywords: Reception-aesthetics of music; idiomatic musical structures; interpretation; intertextuality; Marek Piaček; Apolloopera;

Summary/Abstract: Musical idioms may appear side by side in a wide variety of historical, group-based or individual compositional styles used in the postmodern compositions. The reception interpretation of musical works is based on the idioms of musical speech as meaningful and expressive constants. Not only do the reveal the positive or negative ties of current musical language to the musical poetics from previous periods, they also update their meanings. The idiomatic musical structures naturally grow into the social system of music and thus become part of the deeper levels of European compositional tradition. Musical meanings are becoming typical for the particular sectors of European musical culture, and may even become their emblem. It is even likely that the idioms cease to be seen as a complex musical structure in the process of reception and they become a plain composition material, singular units of musical language. Using the postmodern composition Apolloopera by Marek Piaček, we illustrate the in-depth reference platform of musical idioms and examine the role of idiomatic units in the structure of a postmodern piece.

  • Issue Year: 7/2018
  • Issue No: 2
  • Page Range: 4-13
  • Page Count: 10
  • Language: Slovak