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EnE. Mironenko
The birth of a new composer in the context of postmodernism – metamodernism: Mikhail Rotar from the Republic of Moldova
Musical culture of the turn of the 20th – 21st centuries is a complex, controversial, mosaic space, which is called by researchers “culture paradigm”. However, if the notion of postmodernism in music as a paradigm is fairly established, the notion of metamodernsim in music is still unidentified and waiting to be clarified by musicologists. Nowadays, the phenomenon of metamodern is under close consideration of musicology. The author discusses the issues of metamodernism in music and composers’ approaches to it. The article presents the analysis of symphonic poem “Camera Obscura” by the young composer M. Rotar (1996), being almost a peer to the new space of metamodernism in music and the fast internet, he was praised for his postculture pieces by the jury of composition competitions in the CIS countries. The purpose of the article is to comprehend the poetics of metamodernism in music on the example of the named work. The article consists of three sections. The first one is devoted to the debatable issues of the phenomenon of metamodernsim in music. The second section briefly portray the composer, showing the background of the composition “Camera Obscura”. The third section contains an analysis of this opus, which is aimed at finding synchronization of the musical and expressive means of composition with the poetics of metamodernsim.
Key words
cultural paradigm, postmodernism, metamodernism, musical poetics, composer Mikhail Rotar, opus “Camera Obscura”.
For citation
Mironenko E. The birth of a new composer in the context of postmodernism – metamodernism: Mikhail Rotar from the Republic of Moldova // South-Russian Musical Anthology. 2022. No. 2. Pp. 76-85.
