Journal of Siberian Federal University. Humanities & Social Sciences: “If Music is Not a Memory, then what is it?”: on the Modern Approach to Musical Memory in Azio Corghi’s Creations

Journal of Siberian Federal University. Humanities & Social Sciences / “If Music is Not a Memory, then what is it?”: on the Modern Approach to Musical Memory in Azio Corghi’s Creations

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Issue: Journal of Siberian Federal University. Humanities & Social Sciences. 2020 13 (6)
Authors: Gavrilova, Liudmila V.
Contact information: Gavrilova, Liudmila V.: Krasnoyarsk State Institute of Arts Krasnoyarsk, Russian Federation;
Keywords: modern music; memory; A. Corghi’s creations; excerption; riletture; cantata “...fero dolore”; riletture
Abstract: The article draws attention to the music of Azio Corghi (b. 1932), a modern Italian composer, hardly known in Russia. His artistic world is organically integrated into one of the characteristic features of modern culture: its inextricable link with the memory of the past. The composer demonstrates his own, original approach to musical memory – an artistic dialogue with it through the use of excerptions from various works of the past. According to the composer it allows him to “re-discover and re-read the past in the spirit of modernity”. This Corghi’s method is defined in the article with the help of the term riletture (Ital. re-reading), invented by the Italian musicologist Raffaele Mellace. Among a large number of works of this kind, as a specific example, the author considers the dramatic cantata “...fero dolore” – on Pianto della Madonna and Lamento d’Arianna by Claudio Monteverdi, for female voice, viola (oboe d’amour), percussion and string instruments
Pages: 1038–1045
DOI: 10.17516/1997-1370-0579
Paper at repository of SibFU: https://elib.sfu-kras.ru/handle/2311/135379

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