PORTRAIT OF THE COMPOSER DIMITAR HRISTOV BY THE STYLISTIC CHARACTERS OF MELODIC STRUCTURE OF THE FIRST SUBJECT IN THE FIRST PART AT THE CONCERTO FOR PIANO AND ORCHESTRA № 1 WITH ANALYSIS OF HIS METHOD OF CREATING IN PROGRESSION Cover Image

ПОРТРЕТ НА КОМПОЗИТОРА ДИМИТЪР ХРИСТОВ ПОСРЕДСТВОМ СТИЛИСТИЧНИТЕ ОСОБЕНОСТИ НА МЕЛОДИКАТА НА ГЛАВНАТА ТЕМА НА ПЪРВАТА ЧАСТ НА КОНЦЕРТА ЗА ПИАНО И ОРКЕСТЪР № 1 С АНАЛИЗ НА ТВОРЧЕСКИЯ МЕТОД В ПЕРСПЕКТИВА
PORTRAIT OF THE COMPOSER DIMITAR HRISTOV BY THE STYLISTIC CHARACTERS OF MELODIC STRUCTURE OF THE FIRST SUBJECT IN THE FIRST PART AT THE CONCERTO FOR PIANO AND ORCHESTRA № 1 WITH ANALYSIS OF HIS METHOD OF CREATING IN PROGRESSION

Author(s): Rositsa Todorova
Subject(s): Fine Arts / Performing Arts, Music
Published by: Софийски университет »Св. Климент Охридски«
Keywords: Dimitar Hristov; Concerto for piano and orchestra № 1; melody; method of composing; stylistic characters

Summary/Abstract: The main theme of the first movement of Concerto for Piano and Orchestra No. 1 (1956) by Dimitar Hristov (1933-2017) contains fundamental features of the composer's style developed over his 60-year career: Suggestive distribution of elements of the texture similar to roles in a dramatic work; rhetorical structure of the melodic; idea of freedom from tonality and metric; sparing construction by adding, subtracting and correcting only one tone from the opening motif; repeated repetition of a short motif with a different rhythm; embedding one's identity through musical depiction of temperament, gestures, speech, coding letters of the name, etc. The method of composition includes: borrowing classical structure and transforming it by freeing it from the conventions of era, nationality, genre, purpose, etc.; replacing the means of expression with Bulgarian national ones with a folk sound; creating distinctive compositional approaches, devices and forms.