The Triple Concerto The Fever by Dan Dediu: A Story with Musical Characters
The Triple Concerto The Fever by Dan Dediu: A Story with Musical Characters
Author(s): Olguța LupuContributor(s): Dragoş Manea (Translator)
Subject(s): Music
Published by: Editura Universității Naționale de Muzică din București
Keywords: musical narratology; instrumental opera; fictionist method;
Summary/Abstract: The Triple Concerto for flute, clarinet, cello and orchestra, Op.138 Febra [The Fever] by Dan Dediu was conceived as an answer to the challenge of timbral heterogeneity raised by a concerto with multiple soloists. The solution found by the composer was to break through the borders of the concerto as genre, to bring it into the realm of the narrativity and create an “instrumental opera”, with main and secondary characters, both heroes and villains, with tensions, intrigues, and connivances, with twists and surprising endings. The result was a musical adventure whose interpretation calls for an approach inspired by musical narratology, especially as Dediu’s own approach to music is highly compatible, since the composer defines his own method of composition as “fictionist”.
Journal: Musicology Today: Journal of the National University of Music Bucharest
- Issue Year: 8/2017
- Issue No: 31
- Page Range: 123-142
- Page Count: 21
- Language: English