Manuel de Falla-John Cage: bipolaridad estilística en el repertorio pianístico nocturno de la primera mitad del siglo XX
Abstract
This phenomenological study focuses on the piano nocturne, based on two polar hypostases in the works of Manuel de Falla and John Cage. Even while using apparently similar compositional techniques such as economy of the sound material and flexibility in structural treatment, the musical language and compositional attitude of the two composers is condensed in the antinomy that arises between the syntagmas “poeticized piano” and “prepared piano”. Where Manuel de Falla projects at a higher conceptual level the romantic and impressionistic heritage, merging it with an Andalusian vocabulary of rhythm and melody, Cage, a visionary of experimental aesthetics, performs a timbre mutation of the piano nocturne. In the period comprised between the works Nights in the Gardens of Spain and The Perilous Night, other composers of the first half of the twentieth century represent an amalgam of trends that allow for only one control parameter: the aesthetic.Downloads
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