От песен към художествена форма в инструменталната музика
From Song to Art Form in Instrumental Music

Song’s Genre and Style Trajectory in the Development of Instrumental Thinking

Summary/Abstract: In light of its primordial nature, song’s importance as a progenitor of artistic forms is particularly noteworthy. Song stimulated instrumental genres that had become separated from it in the 16th and 17th centuries. Instrumental genres and song coexisted in a wide range of categories. The most significant were as thematic foundations and structural models, both of which affirm song’s status as a source for instrumental forms and establish its preeminence from the 17th century to the present. A historical and comparative approach to instrumental song in representative works of Bach, Handel, Mozart, Beethoven, Schubert, Schumann, Liszt, Thalberg, Tchaikovsky, Vladigerov, Nenov, Pipkov, creates a dynamic map. This text offers a contextual focus by tracing the path of song in instrumental music throughout the Baroque, Classical and Romantic eras. In addition, this paper examines the role of song in early 20th-century Bulgarian music by highlighting some of its structural and linear aspects in modern compositional techniques.

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