A NEW APPROACH TO PIANO EXPRESSIVE CAPABILITIES IN THE CREATIVE WORK OF THE AMERICAN COMPOSERS OF THE 20TH CENTURY Cover Image

НОВИЙ ПІДХІД ДО ВИРАЗОВИХ МОЖЛИВОСТЕЙ ФОРТЕПІАНО У ТВОРЧОСТІ АМЕРИКАНСЬКИХ КОМПОЗИТОРІВ ХХ СТОЛІТТЯ
A NEW APPROACH TO PIANO EXPRESSIVE CAPABILITIES IN THE CREATIVE WORK OF THE AMERICAN COMPOSERS OF THE 20TH CENTURY

Author(s): Maksym Shadko
Subject(s): Music, Recent History (1900 till today)
Published by: Національна академія керівних кадрів культури і мистецтв
Keywords: innovative American composers of the 20th century; H. Cowell’s string piano; J. Cage’s prepared piano; G. Crumb’s extended piano; new ways of piano playing;

Summary/Abstract: The purpose of the article is related to the consideration of technical and expressive capabilities of a piano in the creative work of innovative American composers of the 20th century; revealing of the newest ways of phonation and timbre changes as well as their role in artistic idea development. The methodology of the research is to apply historical and theoretical, structural and functional methods as well as the comparative method that allow revealing peculiarities of piano approaches at the present stage of musical art as well as compositional and dramatic peculiarities of works written for the instrument with a new way of sound. The scientific novelty of the work is determined by the discovery of evolutionary piano changes process interpreted by innovative American composers of the last century, which contributes to the understanding of successful relationships between individual approaches.

  • Issue Year: 2019
  • Issue No: 35
  • Page Range: 343-348
  • Page Count: 6
  • Language: Ukrainian
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