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The ideatic formulations of Helmut Lachenmann (b. 1935) consecrate specific connotations to the perception/ grasping of linguistic and social-cultural determinants, driving away any poetic fiction (or false sound-paraphrase) from around aesthetics and music. Conceived as a polyphony of syntactic and semantic organisations, Consolation II (for 16 mixed voices) redefines music as a social-cultural phenomenon. Studying his vision in a critical manner, the polarities are perhaps the most important heritage assimilated...

Nowadays it has become really difficult to separate the frontiers between the „real” and the „virtual”. We live in a world where millions of images are in the middle between vision and perception. Often we are caught by images built with perspective effects and even better on the anamorphosis. Starting the geometric-projecting bases of anamorphosis in all its aspects, the research studies and analyzes its applications in modern art, presenting all the possible techniques, traditional and innovative. But es...

Creative thinking is an essential component of any artist's activity including the professional work of a stylist. Sharing the view that creativity is mostly determined by genes we are inclined to think that it, nevertheless, could and should be developed. The current work aims to analyze the role making associations plays in the professional activity of a stylist and to confirm the importance of developing associations in mastering creative thinking skills. Conducting personal interviews with practicing stylists,...

The influence of television on literature can be identified in novels of several contemporary writers where it can have two forms. In its explicit form it is usually represented by themes directly dealing with TV, TV broadcasting and programs, but its implicit form seems even more interesting. It manifests itself by the use of brand names instead of descriptions as well as by structural changes present on some level of the text. In the following text, the explicit impact is briefly exemplified by examples from B. ...

The lied, this small-scale musical genre, is a highly concentrated musical expression of the poetic text. The music of a lied is closely related to poetry, the musical genre being a whole in which each of the two coordinates has the same importance. Music - poetry relationships are intertwined, influencing each other. In the Evening of Brass lied by Daniela Cojocaru the close relationship between text and music is obvious, and this relationship has influenced a number of new ways of artistic expression.

Among the composers' searches to find new ways to translate original ideas and feelings in musical language, intonation systems inferable from mathematical proportions concerned twentieth century musicians. Thus, in order to make operations through set theory, musical scales represent modes and modal structures are materialized through melodic and harmonic discourse itself.

The aim of the research has been to examine correlations and discrepancies between music education and major developmental trends in cultural and artistic production (music and multimedia) in Slovakia in the 21st century. Regarding its methodology, the research has been based on the methods of qualitative paradigms (analytical-synthetic, interpretative and comparative). Available results and statistical data of the quantitative research have been also used. The article argues that music education in Slovakia can b...

The article analyzes the views of Russian literary and theatrical critic, theologian and priest Sergei Durylin on opera theater in connection with the ideas of new mythogenesis and mystery (religious and synthetic art), which were popular in the early 20th century, especially in Russia. The method of presentation corresponds to the method of research and offers a synthesis of methods of art criticism, philosophy of art, philosophy of myth and religion, as well as history of culture, all of which are presented in t...

At present, immeasurably increased the role of education of young generation in the spirit of humanistic ideas, tolerance, the perception of the news, the formation of inno-vative thinking in the social and educational environment for solving the global chal-lenges of the reality reorganization. One of the possible solution ways to such important tasks are presented to the public means of emotional education through music education. We analyzed the results of a study to extract the sound timbre students and teache...

Headed perhaps by a personal passion of the zodiac, and also influenced by the opening science to space exploration and the recent conquest of the moon, the American composer George Crumb (b.1929) proposed in the early 70s a series of authentic pieces for piano grouped under the generic name of Makrokosmos. This series of works is a thorough exploration of multiple possibilities of the piano expression. Composer's intention was to write a encompassing work using all the techniques imaginable for this instrument. I...

Among different extant written sources of Tibetan music, namely, theoretical works, notations and manuals, the “Treatise on Music” written in the thirteenth century by prominent Tibetan scholar Sa skya Paṇḍita Kun dga' rGyal mtshan (1182—1251) is the earliest and most informative one. As this work includes three chapters almost entirely dedicated to the theory of vocal music production and composition techniques (with a small part relating to musical instruments), the treatise seems to be very important ...

In the late 40. of twentieth century, there was discovered the possibility of music creation by means of electronic tools. Ten years later – during the Internationale Ferienkurse fur Neue Musik – there were held lectures of electronic music. The lectures bounced wide repercussions among the participants of meetings in Darmstadt. In the context of whole legacy and available comments of Karlheinz Stockhausen, Luigi Nono, Luciano Berio, or Gyorgy Ligeti, one can be argued that the experience in experimenting with...

The present research aims to study the works of outstanding modern conductor N. Harnoncourt during the period of the late XX c. and early XXI c. for example of productions of the opera wrote by Mozart "La Clemenza di Tito" and identify basic principles and regularities of the dynamics of the style. The methodology of the study was the comparative method, that enabled a comparative historical and cultural analysis of the phenomena of Opera art of modern time. N. Harnoncourt in his work the of Mozart's Opera "La Cle...

This article is about different Multimedia 360В° technologies and some examples, how to use of Multimedia 360В° technologies for filming of different events (theatrical performances, musical concerts, city excursions, etc.). Also described the experience of technological base of Multimedia 360В° technology, created by team of center design and multimedia (ITMO University).

As the title implies the article deals with works of Video art based on paintings of Renaissance epoch. It is spoken in detail about works of Hermine Freed, Bill Viola, the group AES+F. Much attention is given to the detailed analysis of links between paintings and their video transformations. The article shows parallels in composition, color schemes, semantic and formal transformations.

Cultural landscape is the environment where the totality of elements created by both a human and nature interact. This landscape demonstrates the development of the society over time. It testifies to the symbiosis of social, economic and cultural processes. Evidence of different historical events and of social life in various epochs, cult and memorial objects co-exist in the landscape. Historically more significant and valuable environmental elements created by a human acquire the status of a cultural monument or ...

Poland is situated in the area of cultural and religious borderland, in the sphere of Greek-Slavonic and Latin influence. In the past, mutual contacts and attempts to exchange values were limited. Both churches, Roman Catholic and Orthodox, were structures of a rather closed character. However, examples of modern churches in Poland seem to prove that these separation tendencies of both Christian churches and cultures are now being reversed, which is not only a symptom of mutual dialogue, exchange of ideas, values ...

The complementarity or harmony relations of the great works of the universal culture have been the subject of artistic analyses. Proportionality – the golden ratio – is a construction pattern that has always sparked debate, from various structures of nature to many outstanding artistic achievements that include the creation of architecture, art, music. In several works by contemporary Romanian composers, this concept of proportionality is present both in sound organization structures and in the architectonic c...