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BERCEUSES DU CHAT BY IGOR STRAVINSKY
BERCEUSES DU CHAT BY IGOR STRAVINSKY

Author(s): Răzvan Metea
Subject(s): Music
Published by: Studia Universitatis Babes-Bolyai
Keywords: art song; chamber music; clarinet; lyrical.

Summary/Abstract: Berceuses du chat by Igor Stravinsky. Berceuses du chat by Igor Stravinsky for voice and clarinet trio - picollo clarinet, clarinet in A, bass clarinet - is a cycle of four vocal-instrumental miniatures that are part of the Russian period of the composer’s work, being completed in 1915-1916. The timbral balance achieved between the voice and the instrumental ensemble, the lyrical manner of musical expression, the specific rhythmic-melodic typologies of writing, the chromatic versus diatonic dichotomy, the affiliation of the opuses to the comic aesthetic category are characteristics of this series of four micro-art-songs, cradle songs, dedicated to and apparently describing the characteristics of a cat.

  • Issue Year: 58/2013
  • Issue No: 1
  • Page Range: 187-198
  • Page Count: 12
  • Language: English