Literacki kontekst dzieła muzycznego

Chopinowska ballada versus Skriabinowski poemat

Author(s): Agnieszka Sozańska-Ławniczak / Language(s): Polish Issue: 01 (28)/2016

The following article describes a phenomenon of the correspondence of arts using the works of Frederic Chopin and Alexander Scriabin as an example. The author is interested in the relations between music and literature and Chopin’s ballads and Scriabin’s piano poems, the genres, which are an effect of such relations. The analysis of those works shows that both composers have a different understanding of the essence of music and literature but there are also similarities. The ballads and poems do not convey a literary programme or music illustration but their sound matter is additionally complemented by the genre category, title or commentary instead.

Muzej Kralja Petra Prvog Velikog oslobodioca ili kulturni centar kuća kralja Petra Prvog?

Author(s): Milica Mađanović / Language(s): Serbian Issue: 1/2015

Built at the end of the 19th century on the gentle slopes of Topčider hill, appealing, shaped in the manner of academism, the villa in no. 40 Vase Pelagić Street till this day represents recognizable point of Senjak’s picturesque ambience. Luxurious country house of opulent Belgrade merchant, Đorđe Pavlović, after the First World War the villa serves as a residence of King Peter I Karađorđević. Proclaimed a cultural monument in 1992, the building presently functions as a cultural centre the House of King Peter the First, formally merged with the Children’s cultural centre Majdan. Dignity of His Royal Majesty King Peter the First, who deceased within the villa’s modest interior in the year 1921, as well as architectural values of the edifice constitute the building as a monument of high historical significance. Consequently, it seems more appropriate and, honoring the idea which initially led the authorities to purchase the estate, historically more responsible to merge the villa with more significant institution primarily devoted to protection, interpretation and promotion of cultural heritage. Seen in the light of recent practices of cultural centre it seems that the villa in no. 40 Vase Pelagić Street would rather reach its full potential as a Museum of King Peter the First, at the same time gaining its proper position on the memorial map of Belgrade.

Izložba Izopačene umetnosti u Minhenu 1937. godine – pogreb moderne umetnosti

Author(s): Tamara Biljman / Language(s): Serbian Issue: 1/2015

This research represents a different perception of the „Degenerate Art” Exhibition, not as a merely grotesque cultural event from the Third Reich history, but as an extremely powerful mean of Nazi propaganda. With the help of articles, preserved guide of the said expo, documentaries and documented statements of visitors, I was able to identify multiple layers and true message of this exhibition. After the horrors of World War One, German artists set themselves on a mission to unmask false idols, destroy imposed ideals and put the light on the new force which threatened to swallow the weakened people of Germany. The party in question was new-born National Socialist Movement, an opponent that would sentence them to symbolic death in 1937 at the „Degenerate Art” Exhibition. However, the reason of this exhibition does not lie simply in an attempt to „clean” a new culture of modern elements in order to return to classicist ideals nor to get rid of “noisy” artists. This was a very important playground for political propaganda which Nazis used to promote anti-bolshevist and anti-Semitic ideas, eradication of everything primitive, foreign and uncontrolled, as well as everything which was pacifist or had an individualistic tendency. The very name of this exhibition indicates another purpose of this event, an attempt of shaping public awareness about one of the most problematic issues of Nazi policy – eugenics. Only a few years later groups and ideas marked as unfit at the „Degenerate Art” Exhibition became the true victims of senseless bloodshed.

Rola Jane Wilhelminy Stirling w życiu Fryderyka Chopina oraz w kultywowaniu dziedzictwa i pamięci o kompozytorze

Author(s): Paulina Pieńkowska / Language(s): Polish Issue: 01 (32)/2017

The role of Jane Wilhelmina Stirling in Fryderyk Chopin’s life, as well as in the cultivation of his legacy, is underestimated to this day. Jane Stirling was not only Chopin’s pupil, but also his patron. She organized a concert tour to England and Scotland for Chopin, and tried to provide the composer with a donation for his living expenses. She financed his funeral, as well as the costs of erecting his gravestone. After the composer’s death she turned her attention to what Chopin had left behind. It is thought that she purchased most of the items from his last apartment; in a separate transaction she acquired the last piano the composer had played. She tried to protect the autographed manuscripts he had left, and attempted to arrange the publication of compositions left only in sketch form.

Kompozycje mszalne Mikołaja z Radomia w kontekście twórczości mszalnej Antonia Zacary da Teramo i Johannesa Ciconii

Author(s): Joanna Miszke / Language(s): Polish Issue: 01 (32)/2017

The aim of the article is to bridge the gap in the study of Nicolaus de Radom’s output by presenting a comparative analysis of his works as juxtaposed with other European artists. The prevailing opinion of musicologists, such as Maria Szczepańska and Mirosław Perz, is that Nicolaus de Radom’s music is closely related to the works of northern Italian composers. However, such a claim has not yet been supported with the detailed comparative analysis. The article presents the analysis of the manuscripts Kras 52 and Wn 378, signed by Nicolaus de Radom, confronted with selected masses by Johannes Ciconia and Antonio Zacara da Teramo. A detailed analysis of a two-sectioned cyclic mass helps to distinguish certain similarities and differences in the unification of the Mass pairs, as they are exemplified in the music of the composers. The works of all of the three artists manifest secular songs’ influence on the shaping of the Mass as a genre, although each composer adapts it in a slightly different way. Moreover, it is stated that a thorough analysis of the 15th-century Masses is necessary to determine whether there are any links between Nicolaus de Radom’s, Antonio Zacara da Teramo’s and Johannes Ciconia’s works, and whether there are any similarities in their compositional technique. Presented analysis of de Radom’s, Zacara da Teramo’s and Ciconia’s Masses refutes the claim that Nicolaus de Radom’s output bears closest relation to those of Zacara da Teramo’s. The results of the study reveal that there are no straightforward examples which would support such a theory.

Dwie strony olimpijskiego medalu – kontrowersje wokół II Symfonii „Olimpijskiej” (1948) Zbigniewa Turskiego. Przyczynki do analizy

Author(s): Karolina Bindel / Language(s): Polish Issue: 01 (32)/2017

The main topic of the article is II Sinfonia Olimpicaby Zbigniew Turski, a composer who is barely known in Poland nowadays. The reason of this is the socio-political situation of the country after World War II. The composer was one of first victims of Stalinist cultural policy. At a conference in Łagów Lubuski in 1949, his II Sinfonia Olimpica was named formalistic, pessimistic and incompatible with the socialist realism standards. However, the composition had won a gold medal at the XIV Olympic Games in London in 1948 and this success had had a great resonance in Polish music press before the conference.The article has several objectives. The first of them is to present socio-political situation in musical environment. Moreover, it shows the reception of the symphony after its premiere at the conference in Łagów Lubuski. Finally, an attempt to analyze the II Sinfonia Olimpica is made. It is noticed that the symphony stands out against other compositions created in the mid-twentieth century particularly by dint of its deeply emotional and dramatic character. The achieved mood results from traumatic war experience of the composer. Although the neoclassical tradition is visible, Turski used the innovative musical language and his attempt to create his own music style is noticeable. According to the author’s opinion, if it had not been socialist realism in the mid-twentieth century, II Sinfonia Olimpica could be now perceived as one of the most important symphonies created within the last century in Poland.

Научна конференция на Полското народописно дружество – заседанията на секция „Фолклористика“

Author(s): Piotr Grohovski / Language(s): Bulgarian Issue: 4/2016

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SOCREALIZM SKONSUMOWANY. WYKORZYSTANIE DYSKURSU SOCREALIZMU W POP-ARCIE I WSPÓŁCZESNEJ KULTURZE POPULARNEJ

Author(s): Elżbieta Kal / Language(s): Polish Issue: 5/2016

The article is an attempt to analyse how the code of social realism was used in two areas not necessarily but rather intertwined: in the artistic area, in the iconography of pop-art in its strategy of transforming pop-culture and industrial signs as well as in the commercial area, in the advertisement, mass entertainment and activity of places uniting consumption with play.In her analysis the author reminds J. Baudrillard theory of cultural consumption “as a practise of manipulating signs” and Ch. Pierce “unlimited semiosis” and U. Eco as well as various different concepts of memory (including that of J. Baudrillard). The text ex- plains the essence and features of Social realism reigning in the arbitrary way in Poland in the period 1949-1955 often wrongly associated with the full period of Polish Peoples Republic existence (1949-1989). The use of social realistic elements in pop-culture can be seen as a final defeat of communist doctrine that included contempt for commercial- ism and banal entertainment identified as bourgeois Western culture features. The con- tradiction results from the idea that social realistic works were supposed to appeal to the masses yet should also have easily readable form and also very high artistic quality. In the text there are examples of social realistic slogans and motives from the paintings, sculptures and posters in the modern promotional campaigns of cosmetics, in computer games, in advertisement as well as in the gadgets, restaurants and entertainment venues etc.From the earlier artistic inspirations and transformations (consumptions) of social re- alism the text includes several examples of pop-art artists’ works: A. Warhol, T. Wessel- mann or R. Lichtenstein, and also examples of the works of the artist from the German movement called capitalistic realism like K. Lueg, G. Richter, S. Polke and others. Modern popular culture and commercial mass entertainment exploit art on its own terms and both social realism and pop-art nurture popular and mass culture.

Z ducha (nie)podobni: Słowacki — Chopin

Author(s): Włodzimierz Toruń / Language(s): Polish Issue: 2/2017

The sketch From spirit (not)similar: Słowacki — Chopin, referring mainly to their biographies, it tries to show the relations that existed between these outstanding people. They first met in Warsaw before 1830, and although they later met a few times in Paris, where they emigrated after the fall of the November Uprising, they did not establish closer ties. Despite a certain physical similarity, a similar psychological sensitivity and some parallels in experiencing the Polish vicissitudes, they looked at each other with reserve. In a sense Słowacki tried to be resistant to a peculiar Chopin cult that his mother practiced. The relations between the men were rather asymmetric. Słowacki showed a greater interest in the composer than vice versa. Also the relations that existed in the circles of the Great Emigration, where the leading role was played by Adam Mickiewicz, influenced their opinions about each other. The discussion may be concluded with the statement that in the case of Słowacki and Chopin the Romantic theory on the correspondence of arts was not confirmed here by the “correspondence of personalities.”

Някои бележки за един гръцки ръкопис от ХIV век

Author(s): Darinka Karadžova / Language(s): Bulgarian Issue: 1/2017

A Greek manuscript from the 1340s and the middle of the 14th century has been preserved in the rich archives of the National Library in Sofia (NLCM, Gr. 25). The manuscript contains valuable marginalia of a cultural and historical character. According to some of them the manuscript is connected to the history of the Great Lavra and the Koutloumousiou Monastery on Mount Athos during an extremely important period of the literary and artistic processes in the general Balkan and South Slavonic manuscript literature. Codicological criteria, such as the outer appearance of the book block and the wooden covers, the ornaments and characteristics of the leather wrapping them, the leather imprints on the y-leaf, etc., as well as the data in one of the marginalia, point to an early book binding from the first half of the 16th century preserved to this day. The book binding shows highly artistic craftsmanship and was most likely made by the bookbinding workshop of Serres, whose bishop Gennadius bought the manuscript from Koutloumousiou in order to give it to Kosinitsa Monastery. Such facts are valuable evidence regarding both the particular types of binding and techniques of decorating the leather cover of Greek manuscript books during the mentioned period and the models that the Bulgarian bookbinders would eventually borrow.

Public Art in Turkey: Between Politics and Aesthetics

Author(s): Yordanka Bibina / Language(s): English Issue: 1/2017

What we may call “public art” in Turkey starts with the establishment of the Turkish Republic itself. Mostly, it is associated with monuments and sculptures in public spaces in the modernising urban environment within the newly founded secular state that brought changes not only to the way of life and its dynamics, but also to the entire system of values and the aesthetics of space. The most popular public space, the square, altered completely its function and vision: from being entirely the domain of men enclosed between the mosque, the bazaar, and the coffee-house, to becoming the vital point of the new Europeanised Turkish cities highlighting thus the national identity and memory, and the new political order. This brief survey focuses on the different approaches to public spaces in Turkey and to public works of art, which are more than just ideological instruments of power. The study of this situation in a society that is concerned with its own identity appears as one of the most important issues of contemporary public art in Turkey. On the other hand, public art raises awareness about the value of art in public dialogue, and helps bring forward new interpretations and artistic quests.

Искусство в жизни людей (образовательная программа по изобразительному искусству)

Author(s): Gulnar Omarova / Language(s): Russian Issue: 5/2017

The article presents the impact of all kinds of art on the personal attitude towards life, as well as the development of natural human data.

Научни форуми

Author(s): Nikola Kazanski / Language(s): Bulgarian Issue: 34/2017

Data about scientific events in the field of the humanities in Bulgaria in 2017

Let’s Catch the Gold Fish! Места за учене

Author(s): Viara Guneva / Language(s): Bulgarian Issue: 2/2017

The author presents the results of a study that measures the attitudes of students towards cultural institutes – Art Gallery and Museum. Four classes are questioned – two classes of students from elementary school in Sheffield, England (Stradbroke School – Sheffield, UK) and two classes from “Ivan Vazov” Elementary School in Ruse, Bulgaria. The preferences of students to visit the museum or gallery in the company of peers, teachers or parents are measured. Guide lines on developing new attitude towards cultural institutes for turning them in a favorite intellectual, emotional and spiritual space are given.

Апликатурните принципи и тяхното приложение при обучението по акордеон

Author(s): Diana Stancheva / Language(s): Bulgarian Issue: 2/2017

The main principles for the selection of fingering when performing music accordion pieces are presented. An emphasis is placed on the advantages of fingering “Liszt – Busoni”, which is up to now completely neglected in Bulgarian accordion methodology – it is absent from the printed music, it is not included in the training manuals, it is not the focus of attention in the theoretical methodological works and is not applied in the practice of performance in our country. Some of the most important factors that affect fingering, the fingering specific features in the performance of monophonic and polyphonic texture, as well as characteristics associated with differences in the structure of the right and left manual on accordion are covered in short. The briefly presented principles and technological guidelines are derived from the theoretical and practical teaching and performing experience – both personal and that of others.

Педагогическа система за изграждане на начални нотночетивни умения

Author(s): Iliana Chervenakova / Language(s): Bulgarian Issue: 2/2017

Imperfect practice from the past is making the music notes literacy and the technical mastering of the instrument into an end in itself in the musical and pedagogical work of teachers, while the musical and hearing development of the children, and the emotional experience of the musical piece of art remains in the background. In this way many talented children are diverted from music and from mastering a musical instrument. Based on the curriculum of musical instrument and solfeggio for the children from the preparatory group I focus my pedagogical work on the implementation of my goal as an explorer, i.e. the musical and hearing education being the first step of musical literacy. This I achieve through organizing the following specific activities and approaches, presented in their sequence. All concepts and terms in music are learned through games and the implementation of game approaches. The introduction of the musical literacy thus opens the opportunity to write the notes of songs known by the children, while later on reading of unknown note text. The achieved results demonstrate a quality positive leap in the competence of all children included in this education, as well as professional satisfaction in the teachers.

Интеграция между формиране на математически представи и музикално възпитание в детската градина

Author(s): Daniela Girdzheva-Valacheva,Maria Kaloferova / Language(s): Bulgarian Issue: 2/2017

The article seeks for the essence of interdisciplinary relations in education. The integration between math and the rest of the studied disciplines is not only an application of math’s knowledge. We take notice on the relationship between mathematical activities and music, as well as we analyze the possibilities of a complete integration between those two educational activities during pedagogical interaction in kindergarten.

Проблеми и перспективи в развитието на художественото образование у нас през погледа на детския и началния учител

Author(s): Teodora Vlaseva,Daniela Girdzheva-Valacheva,Maria Kaloferova,Nayden Mladenov,Iliyana Shotlekova / Language(s): Bulgarian Issue: 2/2017

The paper presents results of a study, examining teachers’ attitudes, competencies and practices in the field of arts education through which works in practice the art education in the Bulgarian school and the society and who are a key resource to transform its learning model. The survey shows how the teacher sees the priorities, problems and prospects in the development of arts education. On this basis are analyzed the arts education status and are outlined strategies and measures for optimization.

Deep Belief Networks for Multimodal, Images-based Non Contact Material Characterization

Author(s): Magdelena Stoyanova,Lilia Pavlova / Language(s): English Issue: VII/2017

Our growing cognisance about the chemo-physical properties of electromagnetic waves and of their interaction with various materials provides expanding range of possibilities for quantification and non contact material characterization even in difficult to computation, « non-standard » domains as this of the cultural heritage. This review - thematically part of the IFIDA project dedicated to digitization of archaeometric and conservation-restoration praxis - deals with the possibilities latest neuroinformatic methods offer for a more efficient and fast interrogation, understanding and classification of multi-modal spectral records of paintings on various supports. The workflow followed during their routine non destructive (ND) analysis by human experts is described in terms of specific technical characteristics, research objectives and concrete application for the artworks' characterization as a prototype to simulate artificially. References to techniques for high semantic level information extraction from low-level features are suggested. The strengths and limitations in application of Deep Belief Networks (DBNs) for compression, visualization and data recognition are also considered. Examples of most appropriate architectures and topological maps of Deep Learning Networks for interpretation of UV, IR, XR, β, γ and CT records performing simple characterization and classification tasks - from single layer perceptron to multi-layer deep belief neural networks for unlabelled data - are presented and explained.

О некаторых трудностях перевода болгарских художественых фильмов на русский язык

Author(s): Yulia Kudryavtseva / Language(s): Russian Issue: 1 (5)/2017

Film translation is a type of literary translation. This paper observes the main difficulties that can appear while subtitling. The observed difficulties are illustrated with examples from the translations into Russian of some modern Bulgarian films shot in the period 2010-2015. Special attention is paid to the difficulties that are caused by the specifics of Bulgarian informal speech.