The Projections of Musical Space-Time in Instrumental Songs by Petar Osghian

Mina Božanić

doi:10.5937/newso2464017B

Mina Božanić University of Arts in Belgrade, Faculty of Music, Department of Musicology

DOI: https://doi.org/10.5937/newso2464017B

Keywords: musical space-time, Petar Osghian, Instrumental Songs, projections of musical space-time, the musical flow

Abstract

In commemoration of the 70th anniversary of Petar Osghian’s birth and the release of a three-volume CD set containing the majority of his oeuvre, musicologist Dragana Stojanović-Novičić highlighted Instrumental Songs for 26 female voices (1978) as the piece that most strikingly exemplifies Osghian’s mature musical style. Among the many intriguing details, the author chose the piece’s “fascinating sonority”, particularly in relation to the selected medium. In this regard, it is highly pertinent to situate Osghian’s Instrumental Songs within the broader discourse surrounding the phenomenon of musical space-time in the music of the 20th-century. In order to ascertain the genesis of the distinctive sound quality within the vocal media, along with the myriad other facets of this work, we will employ the musico-analytical procedure based on reading the musical text through the phenomenon of musical space-time.

Author Biography

Mina Božanić, University of Arts in Belgrade, Faculty of Music, Department of Musicology

a PhD candidate at the Faculty of Music, Department of Musicology in Belgrade. Her articles were published in scientific journals such as New Sound – International Journal of Music, Matica srpska Journal of Stage Art and Music, The Journal of the Academy of Arts in Novi Sad and Music (Sarajevo, Federation of Bosnia and Herzegovina). She participated on several conferences in Belgrade (2015, 2014 and 2013). She was one of the contributors on two capital projects: The History of Art in Serbia: 20th Century (vol. III, edited by Miško Šuvaković, Ph.D.) and Serbian Encyclopedia (edited by Mirjana Veselinović-Hofman, Ph.D.). Her research interest include the phenomenon of musical space-time in the music of 20th and 21st centuries.