New Sound International Journal of Music

Editorial

Mirjana Veselinović-Hofman — 2025-01-17

In memoriam: Dejan Despić (1930-2024)

Revealing Sound: a Conversation with Svetlana Maraš

Jelena Janković-Beguš — 2025-01-17

Conversation with a composer

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

Mina Božanić — 2025-01-18

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.

The Art of Musical Interpretation: Non-Positivist Approaches in Italian Musicological and Critical Discourse (1930–1989)

Julija Matejić — 2025-01-18

The subject of this paper is a discussion of distinguished Italian thinkers, musicologists and critics on the topic of musical interpretation, initiated in 1930 in the periodical La Rassegna Musicale. In the following years – contrary to the positivism that dominated in Italy at the end of the 19th century, and influenced by the Crocean idealism – numerous authors breathed life into the performer, recognizing their part in the creation of musical meaning. This summary of the most important arguments of the selected Italian authors from the 1930s to the 1980s provides an insight into that dynamic debate, which until now has not been present in the Serbian musicological literature. The importance of their departure from the dominant positivist approach is emphasized by the fact that similar postulates in the Anglo-Saxon literature gained momentum significantly later – only at the end of the 20th and the beginning of the 21st century.

Formulating a Theoretical Basis for Working on Triads Sharing the Same Third in the Higher Education Curriculum

Jelena Beočanin — 2025-01-18

Relations between triads sharing the same third are rare within harmonic progressions and, due to their distinct sonority, they are fascinating to listen to and perform. They have received little attention in theoretical literature on music (partly due to their limited representation in the musical repertoire) and they are rarely mentioned in solfeggio literature. Regardless, they represent a significant element of musical expression that needs to be studied, theoretically established, and introduced into the teaching of solfeggio and harmony to a greater extent than is currently the case. Therefore, this paper focuses on triads sharing the same third (also known as Terzgleicher) employing analytical and descriptive methods. The analysis will encompass both Serbian and foreign textbook-theoretical literature in the field of solfeggio and solfeggio teaching, as well as in the field of harmony, in which the problem of these triads is discussed. This paper aims to establish a theoretical foundation for the future expansion of theoretical and analytical approaches and literature on solfeggio. This expansion would be dedicated to shared third relations, especially in the context of enhancing students’ musical hearing.

"Water", an Audiovisual Work by Vladimir Korać – Nomen est omen

Ksenija Stevanović — 2025-01-18

The composer Vladimir Korać (b. 1986) creates works for solo instruments, various chamber ensembles, symphony orchestras, electronics, and electro-acoustic works, which constitute the main part of his oeuvre thus far. In this area, his works are recognizable in terms of his preferred tools, which include reduced textures, stemming from spectral sound analysis; using prepared electronic structures and controlled “live” processing, as well as working with the temporal dimension of the piece. The high point of Korać’s oeuvre so far is the audiovisual composition Water, which won the 2023 Stevan Mokranjac award for best work of Serbian art music. This paper addresses the main analytic aspects of the work and attempts to sketch an initial possible reading of the metaphor of water as it figures in the piece.

The Efforts of Socialist Yugoslavia’s Music Associations in the Affirmation of (Contemporary) Art Music Among Children and Youth

Ivana Vesić — 2025-01-18

After the end of the Second World War the large-scale project of cultural and educational emancipation of the Yugoslav population was initiated by several mass organizations that were affiliated with the Communist Party of Yugoslavia. The newly established republican, and later federal associations of composers, art music performer, concert and orchestral performers, and music pedagogues also contributed to this process. In this paper, we will examine in detail the specific undertakings of mass organizations and music associations oriented toward cultivation of music taste of children and youth and advancement of their knowledge of its history. Special emphasis will be given to the initiatives of the Yugoslav organization of Musical Youth (Jeunesses musicales, f. 1954) carried out between the mid-1950s and mid-1970s as they manifested various innovative dimensions. The aim is not only to give an overview of different approaches to art music popularization among young Yugoslavs after WWII, but also to critically assess their outcomes.

Dr Mirjana Veselinović-Hofman, Dr Ivana Miladinović Prica (editors), Mirrors: Тhe Musical World of Srđan Hofman. Оn the 80th Anniversary of the Composer’s Birth

Zorica Premate — 2025-01-18

Book review

Review of the 33rd International Review of Composers in Belgrade (October 3–8, 2024)

Radoš Mitrović — 2025-01-19

Rewiev

Atila Sabo, The Post-Tonal Context and Narrative Function of Harmonic Language: Shostakovich, Hindemith, Bartók

Аna Stefanović — 2025-01-19

Book review