Compositional system of Osvaldas Balakauskas: an attempt to restore the theoretical discourse
LTReikšminiai žodžiai: Lietuvių muzika; Osvaldas Balakauskas; Sovietinis modernizmas; Twelve-tone technique; Dodecatonics; Modal system; Lithuanian music; Theoretical-compositional system; Osvaldas Balakauskas; Formalism; Soviet Modernism.
ENAgainst the background of the Lithuanian professional music modernisation over the late Soviet period through to the early 21st century, the study focuses on the theoretical-compositional system of dodecatonics by the most consistent Lithuanian modernist Osvaldas Balakauskas (b. 1937). Based on it, the conceptualisation of the composer’s creative process, the modern expression construing specificity, the socio-political and cultural context, and the aesthetic value will be revealed. By interpreting the process of modernisation from the viewpoint of parataxical comparativism, the relationship between the dodecatonics and other 20th centurys theoretical-compositional systems as well as the theoretical tradition will be examined. The issues of individualisation of the 12-tone technique and the implementation of the principles of the Dodecatonics in Balakauskas’ compositions will be discussed. The system is contextualised in the milieu of the inculcation of “formalistic” modernist doctrines in Lithuania and the USSR and of the updating of composing systems and the development of new ones. [From the publication]
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