Mild Tea, Made of Air for Flute, Violoncello, and Piano by Svetlana Savić

Dunja Savić

doi:10.5937/newso2565177S

Dunja Savić Ph.D. Candidate, University of Arts in Belgrade, Faculty of Music, Department of Musicology

DOI: https://doi.org/10.5937/newso2565177S

Keywords: Svetlana Savić, Mild Tea, Made of Air, Saša Radojčić, Srđan Hofman

Abstract

Mild Tea, Made of Air, a piece for flute, violoncello, and piano (2024) by Svetlana Savić, explores possible ways of working with the text as a basic means of construction in shaping a work of instrumental music. A vocal part set to a poem by Saša Radojčić, Tea Made of Air, composed in the first phase of work on the piece but then omitted from its final version, constitutes an imaginative procedure on the author’s part, especially in the context of the role of text and voice in her creative poetics. That is why the purpose of this paper is precisely to demonstrate the peculiar strategy of that poetic reduction, whereby the work’s textual template is sublimated into a sound devoid of linguistic articulation, but – with multiple poetic layers! – woven into the very compositional logic of the work.

Author Biography

Dunja Savić, Ph.D. Candidate, University of Arts in Belgrade, Faculty of Music, Department of Musicology

(b. 1995) is a first-year student in the doctoral programme of the Musicology Department at the Faculty of Music in Belgrade. She has written several studies focusing on the relationship of poetry and music, including her master’s thesis, The Characteristics of Svetlana Savić’s Poetics as Exemplified by her Electronic Works involving Voices (The Poor Sad Don Juan’s Daughter, Sonnets, Trapped, On Wolves and Trains), produced under the supervision of Assistant Professor Biljana Leković. In October 2022 she began writing music reviews for Radio Belgrade 2.