Violin - Level 6
SKU:
BA.BA11433
Composed
by Zsigmond Szathmary. In
a folder. Performance
score. Composed 2010. 12
pages. Baerenreiter
Verlag #BA11433_00.
Published by Baerenreiter
Verlag (BA.BA11433).
ISBN 9790006568215.
29.7 x 21 cm inches.
Preface: Zsigmond
Szathmary.
In
ancient times, language
and music were already
regarded as an
inseparable unit.
Homer’s epic
poems, for example, were
sung, and in the highly
developed art of
rhetoric, words were used
to communicate reason,
while music spoke to the
soul. Since
Monteverdi’s time,
musical delineation of
text has become even more
important: rhetoric terms
such as
“exclamatioâ€,
“saltus
duriusculusâ€, and
“climax†were
applied to music in order
to render the emotional
content of the text in
even more expressive
ways.
Szathmà ry
used this compositional
method as a model when he
drafted his work for
violin
“Rhetoricaâ€.
He wrote about this work:
“My aim was to
instill a “speaking
quality†into even
the tiniest musical
elements in order to
allow for the music to
become a powerful
narration of the moments
experienced in a human
life with all its highs
and lows –
entirely without the use
of words.â€