Architectural Elements in Composer Vasile Herman’s Symphonic Works (II)
Architectural Elements in Composer Vasile Herman’s Symphonic Works (II)

Summary/Abstract: The second part of this study dealing with composer Vasile Herman’s five symphonies focuses on the analysis of his last three symphonies composed during the eighth decade of the 20th century: Symphony No. 3, "Metamorfoze-Doine” [Metamorphoses-Doinas] (1982), Symphony No. 4 (1984), and Symphony No. 5, "Omagiu cântecului” [Tribute to the Song] (1988), a symphony with choir and baritone soloist. Our analytical approach tries to highlight the role of sound architectures in the development of a personal language, in which the composer’s approach to form became a hallmark of his style. The composer takes on the aesthetic task of expressing the most universal essences of the Romanian folk song in a contemporary language. Our analyses will also point out the implications and changes that the musical language elements – the tonal systems: modal, serial-dodecaphonic, serial-modal; modal, geometric harmony; complex polymorphic, heterophonic syntax; thematicconstructive rhythm – will impose on the structural dialectics of the symphonies.

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