Issue No. 29
Musicologist Speaks
Mirjana Veselinović-Hofman – PRIMA LA MUSICA AS MUSICOLOGICAL CREDO. CONVERSATION WITH DAVID FALLOWS
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Composer Speaks
Ana Kotevska – ISIDORA ŽEBELJAN: THE TRANSCENDENTAL VOYAGE TOWARDS AND FROM BELGRADE FANTASIA
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Studies
Sonja Cvetković – COMPOSER, JOURNALIST AND PEDAGOGUE DRAGUTIN ČOLIĆ (1907-1987). ON THE OCCASION OF THE CENTENARY OF HIS BIRTH
Abstract: This paper examines the compositional, journalistic and pedagogical work of Dragutin Čolić, the artist who, according to the period of his activity and the characteristics of his output, belongs to the the first generation of Serbian avant-garde composers. The stylistic-expressive features of Čolić’s compositional writing are defined in three phases, with a focus on the early and late periods, in which his creative work was marked by expressionism.
Keywords: "the Prague Group", expressionism, dodecaphony, atonality, athematicism, quater-tone music, Schönberg, Hába.
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New Works
Vesna Mikić – ROMAR/BOG GRADA, OR A HEALING POWER OF MUSIC? NEW PIECES BY BOŽIDAR OBRADINOVIĆ AND ANJA ĐORĐEVIĆ
Abstract: The text expounds on the two new works by Anja Đorđević and Božidar Obradinović. Considering that these two vocal-instrumental compositions occurred on the occasion of the 150th anniversary of the birth of Stevan Mokranjac, they in a specific way speak of the affiliation between their creators, as well as the relationship of our times with the works of the great Serbian composer.
Keywords: Romar, The God of the City, Anja Đorđević, Božidar Obradinović, Stevan Mokranjac, choral.
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Katarina Tomašević – THE 2005 “STEVAN MOKRANJAC” AWARD. DEJAN DESPIĆ: DIPTIH FOR ENGLISH HORN AND STRINGS
Abstract: The winner of the 2005 “Stevan Mokranjac” Award by the Association of Serbian Composers was Dejan Despić for his composition Diptih(Diptych) for English horn and strings (op. 166, 2003). This paper analyzes the circumstances in which the composition was created and, by way of a concise review of the composition, it determines its place in the extensive output of the author, who marked half a century of creative work in 2005.
Keywords: Dejan Despić, Diptych for English horn and strings, “Stevan Mokranjac” Award, Jasna Miličić-Brendšteter (Yasna Brandstätter).
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Analyses
Laura Manolache – A STYLISTIC OVERVIEW OF THE MUSIC BY TIBERIU OLAH WITH REFERENCE TO SYMPHONY NO. 2
Abstract: Tiberiu Olah (1928-2002), Romanian composer, since fifties had studied Enescu’s polyheterophony, which he interpreted as a "new method of organising sonorous material". By guiding himself after the principle of heterophony, Olah moulded his Symphony no.2 (Adventures with major chords and pentatonics) both the proceeding of pentatonics dispersed in space and that of superposition.
Keywords: Tiberiu Olah,
Symphony no. 2 , polyheterophony, superposition proceedings, pentatonic, consonance, dissonance.
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Marija Masnikosa – DUAL BY VLADIMIR TOŠIĆ
Abstract: Dual by Vladimir Tošić (1992) is one of the first postminimalist compositions by this author. Based on a strictly conceived, complex repetitive process, the composition takes a step outside the space of radical minimalism solely owing to the specific ‘tridimensional’ physiognomy of the repetitive models treated therein. These models simulate the most common textural organization of tonal music (“melody + accompaniment”), so the composition itself belongs to the domain of postmodern simulative art.
Keywords: postminimalism, integral minimalism, strict precomposerd repetitiveness, minimalist and postminimalist texture,
simulakrum, late modernism, postmodernism, stimulative art.
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Jelena Novak – A QUEER PROTOCOL OF HOMAGE. CHAMBRES DE TÉNÈBRES/TOMBEAU DE CLAUDE VIVIER BY MARKO NIKODIJEVIĆ
Abstract: The music of Canadian composer Claude Vivier (1948-1983) was used as a fractalized material for the creation of the composition Chambres de ténèbres/tombeau de Claude Vivier (2005) by Marko Nikodijević. Vivier’s opus and his marginal queer acting were the pillars of Nikodijević’s meticulous reading/deconstructing of Vivier’s world through his own artistic dilemmas.
Keywords: queer, hommage, deconstruction
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Research and Tradition
Igor Zirojević – THE PRINCIPLES AND PROBLEMATICS OF TRANSCRIBING NEUMATIC TEXTS OF MIDDLE BYZANTINE AND NEW BYZANTINE NOTATIONS INTO STAFF NOTATION
Abstract: This study deals with the problematic and the elucidation of the method of transcribing musical texts recorded in Byzantine neumatic notation (mid-Byzantine and new Byzantine) into staff notation. The subject is treated from two key aspects: the elucidation of the purpose, forms and scope of transcription and transnotation, and analysis of the logic of Byzantine notations.
Keywords: sign, phrase, interpretation, transcription, privlekanija.
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Julijana Žabeva – PRESENTATION OF SERBIAN MUSICIANS AT THE OHRID SUMMER FESTIVAL 1961-1991
Abstract: The Ohrid Summer Festival is one of the most significant manifestations in Macedonian art and culture. There were many performances at the Ohrid Summer Festival that were realized by Serbian musicians: instrumentalists, singers, chamber ensembles, symphonic orchestras and choirs. In the period between 1961 and 1991, Serbian musicians performed 149 concerts at the Festival.
Keywords: Ohrid Summer Festival, Serbian musicians, concerts, recitals, soloist performances, chamber ensembles, symphonic orchestras, vocal-instrumental ensembles, collaboration.
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Students' Papers
Biljana Srećković – RADIO BELGRADE IN THE CONTEXT OF THE MODERNIZATION OF SERBIAN SOCIETY IN THE INTERWAR PERIOD
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Festivals and Symposia
Tatjana Marković – IMS, IAML, IAMIC 2006: Gothenburg, Sweden
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Selena Rakočević – THE INTERNATIONAL SYMPOSIUM “URBAN MUSIC OF THE BALKANS“. The Documentation and Communication Center for Regional Music in Durres (Albania). September 28–October 1, 2006
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Donata Premeru – COMPOSERS IN THE FIRST PERSON. THE SECOND CHINCH FESTIVAL IN BELGRADE
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Ivana Stamatović – THE 15th INTERNATIONAL REVIEW OF COMPOSERS. Belgrade, November 18–21, 2006
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Reviews
Chris Walton – WINFRIED LÜDEMANN: HUGO DISTLER - EINE MUSIKALISCHE BIOGRAPHIE. Augsburg: Wissner-Verlag, 2002. Collectanea musicologica No. 10. ISBN 3-89639-353-7
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Maja Smiljanić-Radić – DJERDJ MANDIĆ (MÁNDITY GYÖRGY): THE VOJVODINA ORGANS
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Leon Stefanija – OTTO E. LASKE. MUSIKALISCHE GRAMMATIK UND MUSIKALISCHES PROBLEMLÖSEN. UTRECHTER SCHRIFTEN (1970-1974). Ed. Nico Schüler (Methodology of Music Research, Vol. 3). Frankfurt am Main et al: Peter Lang 2004. ISSN 1618-842X. ISBN 3-631-52573-7. US-ISBN 0-8204-7395-2.
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Ivana Perković Radak – ANDRIJA JAKOVLJEVIĆ: AN ANTHOLOGY WITH NEUME NOTATIONS FROM THE TIME OF DUKE AND DESPOT STEFAN LAZAREVIĆ. The National Museum, Kruševac, 2004
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Tijana Popović Mlađenović – MUSICOLOGICAL AND ETHNOMUSICOLOGICAL REFLECTIONS (edited by Dragana Jeremić-Molnar and Ivana Stamatović). Belgrade, Department of Music, University of Art, 2006, 173 pages, ISBN 86-83745-61-1
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Katarina Tomašević – JOSIP SLAVENSKI AND HIS TIME. A collection of papers from the specialist conference marking the 50th anniversary of the composer’s death. Belgrade, November 8-11, 2005. SOKOJ-MIC, Editor: Mirjana Živković, Belgrade, 2006
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Defended Theses
Ira Prodanov Krajišnik – RELIGIOUS INSPIRATION IN SERBIAN MUSIC AFTER 1945
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Danijela Kulezić-Wilson – COMPOSING ON SCREEN: THE MUSICALITY OF FILM
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Valentina Radoman – THE ELEMENTS OF THE IMPRESSIONISTIC STYLE IN SERBIAN MUSIC IN THE FIRST HALF OF THE 20TH CENTURY
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Sonja Cvetković – THE EUROPEAN TRADITION IN THE CHAMBER WORKS OF PETAR STOJANOVIĆ
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Jelena Janković – THE PLACE OF CLASSICAL MUSIC FESTIVALS IN A TRANSITIONAL SOCIETY. University of Artsin Belgrade/Université Lumière Lyon 2, France
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New Sound CD No. 29
1. Isidora Žebeljan: The Minstrel’s Dance, for chamber orchestra
2. Božidar Obradinović: Romar, for female choir and piano
3. Anja Djordjević: The God of the City – Choir of Souls, for mixed choir and string orchestra
4. Dejan Despić: Diptych Op.166, for English horn and strings
5.
Vladimir Tošić: Dual, for flute, oboe, violin, viola, violoncello, vibraphone, marimba and percussions