Снежина Врангова-Петкова: „Структурно-функционална многозначност. Музикалноаналитични подходи към период и прости типове форми“
Snezhina Vrangova-Petkovа: “Formal-functional Ambiguity. Music-analytical Approaches to Period and Simple Form Types”

Summary/Abstract: The new book by Snezhina Vrangova-Petkovа (music theorist and teacher) is a serious study in the field of music theory with a contribution to the methodology of teaching the academic discipline of music analysis. The book presents a comprehensive analytical model that is convincingly and consistently introduced, logically substantiated, and illustrated with appropriate notational examples. The author presents a strategy for analyzing phenomena of structural-functional ambiguity by creating an analytical model. This model is optimal and adequate for the structural and functional polyvalence of the period and the song forms based on it as well as for the resulting conceptual problems in the identifications, designations, and theoretical interpretations of similar phenomena. The first chapter of the book examines “the terms period and phrase in the systematic categorization of musicology” in the dynamics of historical time. The second chapter is devoted to structural-functional ambiguity in song forms. The third chapter is an original detailed analysis of the miniature form in Bagatelles op. 119, Nos. 7 – 11 by Beethoven. The book also makes a valuable contribution in terms of the applicability of its principles to the formal-structural study of musical creativity from various periods.

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