Andre Wainen's Rhapsody for Alto Saxophone and Orchestra or Piano in the Representation of the "New Academicism" of Post-Avant-Garde Art

Authors

  • Yuxuan Li

DOI:

https://doi.org/10.32461/2226-3209.3.2023.289857

Abstract

The purpose of the research is to understand the stylistic quality of A. Waingnein's Rhapsody in the direction of the musical-instrumental specificity of the post-post-avant-garde stage of music, which we call "new academicism" within the post-avant-garde stratum of creativity. As a methodological basis, we put forward the intonation approach of the B. Asafiev school in Ukraine, as it developed in the works of D. Androsova, O. Markova, O. Muravska, with an emphasis on hermeneutic and stylistic-comparative analysis, as well as relying on the developments of the post-post-avant-garde in works Drozdovskyi, I. Navoieva, and others. Scientific novelty is determined, firstly, by the primacy in Ukrainian and Chinese musicology of the analysis of the named work by A. Waingnein, and secondly, by the originality of theoretical conclusions regarding the "new academicism" within the framework of post-avant-garde stylistics. Conclusions. The post-post-avant-garde stage of the development of art from the 2000s to the 2010s emphasises, despite the playful stylistic eclecticism of post-avant-garde creativity, the revival of the pathos beginning indicative of classical art, which tends to put forward the popular layer as a pathos-accentuation of expression in the work. Waingnein's academic approach unfolds the traditionalist stylistic dimensions inherited from the last century, emphasising as culminating "surges" (the absence of dramatic antitheticity in the composition "relieves" the tension of the dramaturgically essential) genre fragments of the work's thematics, which have been tested by the popular musical layer.

Keywords: musical genre, style in music, rhapsody, post-avant-garde, "new academicism", musical instrumentalism.

Published

2023-10-25

Issue

Section

Musical art