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Thematic outline is one of the basic concepts of structural evolution of classical music. This is obvious more or less in almost any type of transformation and is very clear when the melody of the theme can be expressed in a different profile without repeated melodic speech directly, but indirectly through links of specific notes or common intervals. From this point of view, in this paper we approach the piano sonata K. 545 by W. A. Mozart starting from Reti’s concept, the thematic process. The main idea of this s...

Through her life dedicated to music, the composer Irina Od?gescu brought to Romanian culture a new breath of a genuine originality. Using a complex language, profoundly anchored in the modernity of the second part of the 20th century, her musical works are distinguished by an expression force that results from an inner experience that goes to the listener, managing to convince both specialists and music lovers. This particularity of her language is exceptionally highlighted in the choral work entitled Our Father, ...

Even now, 2,000 years after his disappearance, the Latin poet Ovidius Publius Naso continues to remain one of the most appreciated writers of verses that belong to the ancient Roman period. Considered to be one of the most influential sources of inspiration in European culture, Ovid's work and especially Metamorphoses stimulated the imagination of some of the greatest creators of universal culture in various artistic fields such as poetry, literature, visual arts, or music. In 1951, composer Benjamin Britten made ...

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.