DOI: 10.7256/2453-613X.2021.2.40482

Abstract: This article focuses on transforming a musical language and the correlation between the esthetic guideline, invention, compositional technique, and language. The author describes Pierre Boulez’s two strategies in life and work, which allowed him to gain significant cultural authority, and sets out the people who influenced Boulez’s esthetics. In a broad esthetic and philosophical context, the author shows the turn from the technique to the language in Boulez's esthetical and theoretical texts, describes the three concepts of the language, the period of synthesis following the period of rejection, and Boulez’s concerns about the problems of music perception. In the context of Boulez’s thesis about the unity of an invention, a technique, and a language, the author considers Boulez’s supporter Heinz Holliger's piece for viola, Trema(1981). The author uses a comprehensive approach as a combination of elements of comparative analysis, musical phenomenology (focusing the mind on music structures), and hermeneutics (the process of understanding and interpreting). The research material is of methodical importance for modern educational courses in the theory and history of music. The author arrives at the conclusion that Boulez, as well as Kant, directs the concept of art towards Aristotle's category of “poiesis” as “craft and creation” and focuses on overcoming the esthetics of rejection (preceding the classic-romantic tradition) in Boulez’s turn to the period of “synthesis,” which includes not only the turn from a technique to a language but also electroacoustic “sound manufacturing.” The following aspects of Hollinger’s Trema are considered for the first time: the idea, the principles of new solo music, and the new technique. The author arrives at the conclusion that Trema belongs to the “multilayered music epoch” and that radical rethinking of a musical language sharpens communication.  

DOI: 10.7256/2453-613X.2020.4.32872

Abstract: This article focuses on transforming a musical language and the correlation between the esthetic guideline, invention, compositional technique, and language. The author describes Pierre Boulez’s two strategies in life and work, which allowed him to gain significant cultural authority, and sets out the people who influenced Boulez’s esthetics. In a broad esthetic and philosophical context, the author shows the turn from the technique to the language in Boulez's esthetical and theoretical texts, describes the three concepts of the language, the period of synthesis following the period of rejection, and Boulez’s concerns about the problems of music perception. In the context of Boulez’s thesis about the unity of an invention, a technique, and a language, the author considers Boulez’s supporter Heinz Holliger's piece for viola, Trema(1981). The author uses a comprehensive approach as a combination of elements of comparative analysis, musical phenomenology (focusing the mind on music structures), and hermeneutics (the process of understanding and interpreting). The research material is of methodical importance for modern educational courses in the theory and history of music. The author arrives at the conclusion that Boulez, as well as Kant, directs the concept of art towards Aristotle's category of “poiesis” as “craft and creation” and focuses on overcoming the esthetics of rejection (preceding the classic-romantic tradition) in Boulez’s turn to the period of “synthesis,” which includes not only the turn from a technique to a language but also electroacoustic “sound manufacturing.” The following aspects of Hollinger’s Trema are considered for the first time: the idea, the principles of new solo music, and the new technique. The author arrives at the conclusion that Trema belongs to the “multilayered music epoch” and that radical rethinking of a musical language sharpens communication.  

DOI: 10.7256/2453-613X.2020.4.40348

Abstract: The article focuses on the problem of transformation of a musical language, the correlation between an esthetic guideline, an invention, a composition technique and a language. The author describes the two strategies of life and work of Pierre Boulez which allowed him to gain significant cultural authority, and enumerates the persons who had influenced Boulez’s esthetics. In a broad esthetic and philosophical context, the author shows the turn from the technique to the language in esthetical and theoretical texts of Pierre Boulez; describes the three concepts of the language, the period of synthesis following the period of rejection, and Boulez’s concerns about the problems of music perception. In the context of Boulez’s thesis about the unity of an invention, a technique and a language, the author considers the piece for viola “Trema” (1981) by Heinz Holliger, Boulez’s adherent. The author uses a comprehensive approach as a combination of elements of comparative analysis, musical phenomenology (focusing of mind on music structures), and hermeneutics (the process of understanding, interpreting). The research material is of a methodical importance for modern educational courses of theory and history of music. The author arrives at the conclusion that Boulez, as well as Kant, directs the concept of art towards Aristotle's category of “poiesis” as “craft and creation”; focuses on the overcoming of the esthetics of rejection (preceding the classic-romantic tradition) in Boulez’s turn to the period of “synthesis” which includes not only the turn from a technique to a language, but also electroacoustic “sound manufacturing”.  The following aspects of Hollinger’s “Trema” are considered for the first time: the idea, the principles of new solo music, the new technique. The author arrives at the conclusion about “Trema” belonging to the “multilayered music epoch” and that radical rethinking of a musical language sharpens communication.   

DOI: 10.7256/2454-0625.2016.5.17171

Abstract: The subject of the research is the activity of a leading composer, theorist, polemist, teacher and conductor of New Music Pierre Boulez whose activity led to the foundation of Institute for Research and Coordination in Acoustics/Music (IRCAM, the Centre Pompidou in Paris). Petruseva analyzes the environment and stages of Boulez' creative activity, three types of musical establishments (training, performing and research establishments), IRCAM structure; Boulez' article 'Technology and the Composer' that became the manifesto of IRCAM; Boulez' interpretation of the total serialism, denial of preceding (nearest) tradition and transition to the period of 'synthesis'. The researcher uses an integrated research method that combines comparative studies, structural musical methods and elements of social methods. The novelty of the research is caused by the fact that the author tries to outline the borders of anthroposociological research based on the example of Pierre Boulez' sociocultural activity. As a conclusion, the author describes the single line of Boulez' activity that starts with immediate problems of aesthetics, musical material, language and New Music concept and comes to musical establishments through the problems of perception and music performance. 

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