The Isobematic Language in the Work Asas by Christopher Bochmann | Chapter 8 | Recent Trends in Arts and Social Studies Vol. 8

 Isobematic dialect, as a system based on a alone unit of the alike size (half-tone), has powerful repercussions on fingering, registers, connection and, consequently, on the sound produced for one various tools. Writing or composing using isobematic terminology means organizing pitches (pause construction), rhythms, movement, articulations according to the total of more or less “spaces of equal breadth”. The accordion, portable aerophone fictitious and patented in 1829 by Cyrill Damian in Austria, emerges in the 21st centennial as one of ultimate versatile instruments in the experiences of music [1] has unique traits to perform this kink of speech: keyboard buttons (half-tones) arrangement, simetry, direct aptitude to transpose stuff, with others. The piece Asas, composed by Christopher Bochmann, it’s a work inscribed for accordion, soprano voice, saxophone, viola and cello established this new language and a someone worth imitating of the accordion integration in the horizon of contemporary music and in the performative connection with other tools. The purpose of this item is to analyze the new work concerning some idiosyncrasies of the isobematic vocabulary and the role of the accordion between the other simple instruments.

Author(s) Details:

Goncalo André Dias Pescada,
Evora University, Portugal and Centro de Estudos de Sociologia e Estética, Portugal.

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Study Highlights about the Converter System on the Contemporary Accordion Performance in the Second Half of the XX Century | Chapter 7 | Recent Trends in Arts and Social Studies Vol. 7

 The item pretends to research the evolution way of a singular musical means, its fundamental past aspects and friendly impact in the society. Throughout the body of the item, some remarks are included to the main brands, composers and pedagogues, in addition to to the basic techniques that include the mechanism in the act.In the second half of the XX century the stomach Steinway experienced significant changes that would change the mechanism's destiny, allure practice, sound range and potential. One of these changes was the creation of a preacher system that opened doors to acting on this instrument, to a degree: hands independence, musical accordance realization, new compositions, mechanics and artistic growth of the performers skills. Just like the Boehm scheme for the flute fictitious by Theobald Boehm between 1831 and 1847, Vittorio Mancini fictitious in 1959 a system for the left help mechanism that managed to the appearance of the groanbox in large concert halls, in big auditoriums with symphony, in chamber music and in the summary of higher schools and universities. This item seeks to study the impact of the preacher system on the development of an instrument with established and popular ancestries that has been more asserting itself as an instrument accompanying transversal wherewithal to interpret some genre of music from common to contemporary.

Author(s) Details:

Gonçalo Pescada,
Évora University, Portugal.

Please see the link here: https://stm.bookpi.org/RTASS-V7/article/view/11775

De Profundis by Sofia Gubaidulina: Interpretation versus Performance | Chapter 4 | Research Highlights in Language, Literature and Education Vol. 8

 The work devises an image of human agony and portrays a hope namely born in the midst of pain. The musical part of the piece indicates concepts of hope, trust and compassion. Throughout the piece, growth from the insights is present. Sofia Gubaidulina, a living classic of modern music and individual of the most common composers of our time, is changeable search of both new timbres and religious truths. Born in Kazan (Russia), at the crossroads of Tatar and Russian cultures as well as Islam and Christianity, she was typically influenced in a group them, that is best reflected in Gubaidulina's constant interest in the wide range of expression way offered by Oriental sounds that are pleasant, harmonized. Sofia Gubaidulina's work introduces new sounds and an never-ending search for immateriality through sound. Despite the difficulties Gubaidulina knowledgeable early in her life and career she was intelligent to overcome many obstacles to one day achieve worldwide stature as a songwriter. De Profundis, Et Expecto, Silenzio, Last seven Words, Fachwerk, Under the sign of Scorpio are some of the composer's everything inspired for one orthodox chants that put the Bayan (accordion) as a academic instrument and essential cab for metamorphosis in musical speech.  Despite the importance of a reliable interpretation of how things stand in the work De Profundis by Sofia Gubaidulina, the facet of performance becomes owned by achieve an painstaking execution.

Author(s) Details:

Gonçalo Pescada,
Évora University, Portugal.

Please see the link here: https://stm.bookpi.org/RHLLE-V8/article/view/11493

Episoden, Figuren: The Concept of Musical and Instrumental Theater in the Contemporary Music Interpretation | Chapter 4 | Recent Trends in Arts and Social Studies Vol. 1

 The combination of scenic action and music, known as "musical theatre," corresponds to a technique used by composers such as Satie and Debussy in the History of Music. As a result, the concept of "instrumental theatre" emerges as a concept in which musicians play the roles of actors. Mauricio Kagel considers himself to be one of the composers who has most explored the aspects of staging related to musical performance, attributing to the interpreter also actor functions such as: adopting certain facial expressions while playing, entering the stage in a specific way, interacting physically with other artists, and so on. The research method used in this article it was based on analysis and performance of the work Episoden Figuren, through the audition, experience and observation with others interpreters and musicians, colleting relevant literature to understand the composer points of view and to understand a period where many characteristics of our daily life emerge as an integrant part of composition process: speaking, lauhging, smiling, among others. In this process, the interpreter becomes an actor, performer, an artist.

Author(s) Details:

Gonçalo André Dias Pescada,
Music Department, Universidade de Evora, Arts School, Universidade de Evora, Arts School, Portugal and Colégio Mateus d' Aranda, Rua do Raimundo, Portugal.

Please see the link here: https://stm.bookpi.org/RTASS-V1/article/view/10452

An Approach to the Music of Edison Denisov - From Dusk to Light| Chapter 6 | Research Aspects in Arts and Social Studies Vol. 4

 The sounds that are pleasant, harmonized of Edison Denisov has a complex and deep texture, which contrasts accompanying the simplicity and clearness of the sounds that penetrate the listener's globe and enable ruling class to comprehend the melody's flow and management. “From Dusk to Light” takes us for moments of marvellous complexity of written music, eclipsing the notes in the score and answering our imaginary and energy of dreams about different moments that offer from chaos to innocence. This musical composition challenges the translator's sensitivity in addition to the instrument's capabilities in up-to-date language to surpass various constructional styles, objectivity, clean intuition, and assertiveness in the lyrical sphere. Additionally, it enacts the profile and originality of the songwriter's ability to build a musical scene utilizing contemporary sound, technique, and skill.

Author(s) Details:

Gonçalo André Dias Pescada,
Music Department, Arts School, Universidade de Évora, Portugal.

Please see the link here: https://stm.bookpi.org/RAASS-V4/article/view/9046