THE AFFECT OF «STYLUS PHANTASTICUS» THEORY IN PERFORMING PRACTICE (BASED ON THE EXAMPLE OF J. S. BACH’S “CHROMATIC FANTASY”) Cover Image

АФЕКТ В ТЕОРІЇ ТА ВИКОНАВСЬКІЙ ПРАКТИЦІ «STYLUS PHANTASTICUS» (НА ПРИКЛАДІ «ХРОМАТИЧНОЇ ФАНТАЗІЇ» Й. С. БАХА)
THE AFFECT OF «STYLUS PHANTASTICUS» THEORY IN PERFORMING PRACTICE (BASED ON THE EXAMPLE OF J. S. BACH’S “CHROMATIC FANTASY”)

Author(s): Natalia Fomenko
Subject(s): Cultural history, Music, Aesthetics, 18th Century, History of Art
Published by: Національна академія керівних кадрів культури і мистецтв
Keywords: affect; Affect Theory; rhetorical figures; agogic; Stylus Phantasticus; Baroque;

Summary/Abstract: The purpose of the article is to discover the means of expressive and stylistically correct performing of Baroque pieces in "Fantasy style." Methodology: historical-stylistic, interpretative analysis, semantic, and etymological analysis of the musical text. Scientific novelty covered with current research views on the problems and features of musical rhetoric and the category of affect in particular. Conclusions. As a systemic category of Baroque aesthetics and musical thinking, affect determines not only the compositional and stylistic features of musical text but also the ways and means of its performing embodiment. The disclosure of the affect inherent in the composer in the sound idea of the work should not be based solely on the intuition of the interpreter; For the correct and artistically authentic embodiment of the affect, specific knowledge is needed that will provide the relevant choice of articulation, fingering, agogics and more. And for the correct articulation of musical-rhetorical figures, besides their own identification, "reading" by the performer in the musical text, it is essential to form each intonational figure independently, and therefore to convey to the listener the relation of motives between themselves and the place of each in a universal symbolic-sound continuum.

  • Issue Year: 2019
  • Issue No: 2
  • Page Range: 130-136
  • Page Count: 7
  • Language: Ukrainian