ANALYTICAL JOURNEYS IN  THREE PIECES FOR CLARINET SOLO BY CORNEL ŢĂRANU

Cristian BENCE-MUK

Authors

Cristian BENCE-MUK "Gheorghe Dima" Academy of Music, Cluj-Napoca, Romania. Email: cristi_bence@yahoo.com https://orcid.org/0000-0002-9045-1088

Keywords:

clarinet, creation, contemporary, nucleous, elaboration, reprise

Abstract

Three pieces for clarinet solo by Cornel Țăranu carry the compositional impression of the ‘80s highlighting a perfect – micro and macrostructural – balance between construction and freedom. The first piece, Toccata ostinato, builds arrhythmic ostinato on a repeated sound, in alternation with a melodic “pattern” of modal-chromatic essence. The second piece, Improvisazione, was written long time before the other two and represents a median contrast, where the sonorous discourse is delivered in a quasi-improvisational development. The third piece, Cadenza, is based on a nucleous made up of (major and minor) second and augmented fourth, transposed and built on various sounds, serving to an expressivity close to that of the lament, suggestively presented by the descending glissando.

References

*** Dicţionar de termeni muzicali (Dictionary of musical terms), Ed. Enciclopedică, Bucureşti, 2010, p.549, article belonging to Carmen Aurora Betea Mateiescu.

*** Larousse – Dicţionar de Mari Muzicieni (Larousse – Dictionary of Great Musicians), Ed. Univers Enciclopedic, Bucureşti, 2000, pag. 489 (article belonging to Oltea Şerban-Pârâu in cooperation with Irinel Anghel, Grigore Constantinescu and Dan Voiculescu);

Arzoiu, Ruxandra - Dialog cu compozitorul Cornel Ţăranu (Dialogue with composer Cornel Ţăranu), in: Muzica no.2 of 1994, p.154, apud. Mercean - Ţârc, Mirela, Op. cit., p. 127.

Bence-Muk, Cristian - Juggle for clarinet and piano by Cristian Marina – changing the semantics of contemporary musical creation from the point of view of various instrumental versions, STUDIA UBB MUSICA, LVII, 1, 2012, p.245-257.

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Pop, Ciprian Gabriel - Cornel Ţăranu – Valentin Streinu: Musical-Poetic connections, in: STUDIA UBB MUSICA, LVII, 2, 2012, p.107-118.

Scores:

Ţăranu, Cornel – Trei piese pentru clarinet solo (Three pieces for clarinet solo), the “Gh. Dima” Music Conservatory, Cluj-Napoca, 1983.

Webography:

http://www.corneltaranu.com/index.html

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