„Разковничето е… цветът“. Към идеята за тема-тембър в композиционния стил на Александър Текелиев (върху симфоничната импресия „Феникс“ („Превъплъщения“)
“The Secret Lies Within... The Color”. Towards the Idea of Theme-Timbre in the Compositional Style of Alexander Tekeliev (оn the Symphonic Impression "Phoenix" ("Incarnations")

Summary/Abstract: An attempt has been made in the article to realise a stylistic analysis of the symphonic impression "Phoenix" ("Incarnations") (2018) by Alexander Tekeliev (1942), through the prism of musical language and formal solutions, thematic development, and dramaturgy. By revealing the systemic organization of the form (free double variations), the thesis regarding the thematic status of timbre and the relative autonomy of timbral substances in the composition's construction is presented. Individual decisions are substantiated based on specific dramaturgical premises and the idea of stylistic modeling in relation to Impressionism, influenced by the composition's broadly-programmatic foundation. The composer's sensitivity towards timbre and the orchestral sound's colorfulness is regarded as an individual-stylistic invariant and the foundation for specific decisions in other parameters defining the compositional style. Simultaneously, these elements are embedded in a broader stylistic and creative context, accentuated as individual, neo-romantic reinterpretations of tendencies in 20th and 21st-century European music related to the progressing emancipation of timbre.

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