ELEMENTS OF THE MUSICAL DISCOURSE IN “FUM (SMOKE)” BY DOINA ROTARU

Şerban MARCU

Authors

Şerban MARCU Music Academy ”Gheorghe Dima” Cluj-Napoca, lecturer. E-mail: serbaan@yahoo.com

Keywords:

Rotaru, Fum, clarinet, solo, analysis, structural, archetypes

Abstract

The present study is an analysis of the work entitled Fum (Smoke), for clarinet solo, written by the Romanian composer Doina Rotaru in 1996 and dedicated to the clarinetist Emil Vişenescu. The study enhances the author’s preference for ancient musical archetypes, such as the aulodic timbral archetype, the archetype of suspended time, the archetype of the ornament or that of the glissando. We also highlight the articulation of musical discourse in relation to symbolic structural principles: circular or spiral shapes, sacred numbers. The structural analysis also emphasizes the continuous variation process, starting from a generative motive which includes almost all elements of language the work is based on: Rubato rhythm, chromaticism, Enescu’s “x” cell, glissando and appoggiatura.

References

Hărşian, Cosmin Teodor, Contemporary Romanian Music for Unaccompanied Clarinet, doctoral thesis dated 04.21.2009, under the guidance of Professor Paul. R. Laird in the Department of Music and Dance at the University of Kansas.

Marcu, Şerban, Elemente de structurare a discursului muzical în lucrarea Martie pentru clarinet solo de Marţian Negrea (Elements of the Musical Discourse in Martie (March) for Clarinet Solo by Marţian Negrea), p. 2, study written in November 2010, to be published in the journal Studia UBB Musica of the Babeş-Bolyai University in Cluj-Napoca.

http://www.freewebs.com/doinarotaru/

http://ionbogdanstefanescu.ro/si-doina-doina-se-facu/

The score of the work Fum by Doina Rotaru, copy after the manuscript