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- Title
SVETLANA SAVIĆ: SONETI "LA DOUCE NUIT", "LOOKING ON DARKNESS", "LA VITA FUGGE".
- Authors
Popović, Branka
- Abstract
Soneti [Sonnets] by Svetlana Savić were composed between 2008 and 2012. The cycle comprises three pieces: "La Douce Nuit" for violoncello, piano, and electronics, as well as "Looking on Darkness" and "La vita fugge" for a female voice, violoncello, piano, and electronics. Here, the work is analysed from the perspective of the author's modernist orientation towards sound as a specific tool of music as a medium, which defined multiple poetic aspects in creating this work and had repercussions on the treatment of the text, the ensemble – both its acoustic and electronic layers – the forming and relationship between individual layers of texture, as well as the choice of music material. Dealing with sound, searching for a specific acoustic quality is revealed already in the title, Soneti, because the term sonnet, which refers to a 13th-century Italian poetic form, comes from the Italian word sonetto, derived from the Latin word sonus, meaning sound. However, although Savić looks for particular acoustic qualities and sound is her main material, the resulting work is full of associations, musical and extramusical alike, and reaches out to other kinds of artistic expression. The composer never loses sight of her extramusical content and thus her composition generates a peculiar sort of interference between the acoustic and the verbal – the music absorbs the verbal, turning words into sounds and sound into words. At certain moments, this is joined by the visual component.
- Subjects
SOUND; MUSICAL acoustics &; physics; SONNET; VARIATIONS (Musical composition); MUSICOLOGY
- Publication
New Sound: International Magazine for Music, 2014, Issue 43, p157
- ISSN
0354-818X
- Publication type
Article
- DOI
10.5937/newso1443157p