Adrian Pop – Theory, Terminology and Stylistic Analysis, Camouflaged among “Prolegomena” and “Didactic Notes”
Adrian Pop – Theory, Terminology and Stylistic Analysis, Camouflaged among “Prolegomena” and “Didactic Notes”

Summary/Abstract: Composer Adrian Pop, a refined intellectual and man of culture, offers us a new perspective on musical stylistics, in an attempt to give it an autonomous status. The argumentation of this approach starts from the peculiarities of understanding the problems related to style, solved intuitively by the composer and performer, but different from the musicologist, who “cannot avoid the difficult attempt to translate the ineffable into coherent ideas spoken with appropriate words”. Hence, the author’s concern to clarify the relationship between “distinctive character” and “logic of musical discourse”, starting from legitimate rhetorical questions, clarified in a delightful exposition that fuses the elegance and picturesque character of language with the impeccable logic of comprehension and argumentation.

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