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EnL. Vorotyntseva
Minimalist vocabulary as a way to achieve a “new simplicity” in the work by G. Tolstenko
The article is devoted to the peculiarities of the use of minimalist vocabulary on the way to achieving a “new simplicity” in the musical work of the contemporary Rostov composer G. Tolstenko. The author seeks to consider specific examples of his musical concepts and to identify the musical vocabulary of minimalism as a tool for implementing the “new simplicity”.
The purpose of this study is to study one of the ways to embody the “new simplicity” through the prism of G. Tolstenko’s philosophical and aesthetic concepts. The main task is to analyze the vocabulary of minimalism in the instrumental compositions of a contemporary author, understanding minimalism as the maximum conciseness of the means of expression. The subject is the “new simplicity” in the composer’s work in the boundary of the 20th–21st centuries. The work presents musical works in which the technical side of minimalism has manifested itself, such as chamber instrumental Suite “Infinito” and orchestral dilogy “The Sounds of Akasha”. The author tries to reveal the peculiarities of the musical language, drama, structure and content of the compositions.
The researcher thinks of the “new simplicity” both as a stylistic trend and as a conceptual position of the creator, the purpose of which, first of all, is the revival of musical communication.
In modern musical art, the “new simplicity” reveals itself in different ways, but one way or another, it is aimed at linguistic enlightenment. Each author follows his own path. It is the philosophical and aesthetic concept that is the cornerstone for individual creative solutions. Nevertheless, in the music of the adherents of the “new simplicity” of our time, among whom A. Pyart, A. Rabinovich-Barakovsky, V. Martynov, V. Silvestrov, A. Kharyutchenko, A. Kovaleva, etc., there is some commonality, the identification of which ultimately constitutes the relevance of this study.
Key words
creative work by composers in the boundary of the 20th–21st centuries, “new simplicity”, technical simplification, minimalism, conceptuality.
For citation
Vorotyntseva L. Minimalist vocabulary as a way to achieve a “new simplicity” in the work by G. Tolstenko. In: South-Russian Musical Anthology. 2024. No. 3. Pp. 22–28.
