Инвенцията на Любомир Пипков
Lubomir Pipkov’s invention

Summary/Abstract: The paper seeks to find the conscious and unconscious grounds for the composition of one of Lubomir Pipkov’s last piano pieces and argues for the special accent, put by the composer on this work through the choice of its title, Invention. It is interpreted in the context of Pipkov’s oeuvre and in comparison with inventive works by other composers. The structural traits that place the piece in the field between the genres of invention, fughetta and fugato, reveal the stylised idea of a polyphonic texture, while the modal pitch organisation and the subdominant tonal degree of the imitations suggest that Pipkov’s Invention is related both to modal phenomena in Bulgarian folk music and to the polyphonic culture of the Renaissance. The in-depth analyses offered in the article show the main sources of creative impulses that have triggered his imagination of a composer on the path he has taken, encoded in this piano piece.

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