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    STUDIA MUSICA - Issue no. 1 / 2010  
         
  Article:   THE MICRO-VARIATIONAL TECHNIQUE IN MESSIAENESQUE FOR ORGAN (1993) BY EDUARD TERÉNYI.

Authors:  ANAMARIA MĂDĂLINA HOTORAN. 		 
       
         
  Abstract:  In the organ play Messiaenesque by E. Terényi, the theme of the micro-variations illustrates a series of dispersed stylistic suggestions of the music of Oliver Messiaen, namely, melodic lines, rhythms, the dynamics, chords and so on, which are used to create a series of analogies, variations or oppositions. The play on words from the title - by separating the word Messiaenesque we get Messiaen + Enescu - is not an amusement, as it may seem as there are some elements taken from the Enescu’s style and this play mirrors a double stylistic thinking. The variations are made through the montage technique, consisting in the selection of a number of paradigmatic microelements, of the cellular/figurative/motive microstructures of the musical language. This micro – entities can be easily identified having the graphic analyse in front: unifying the tones with imaginary lines, we get different geometrical figures.

Keywords: Eduard Terényi, Messiaenesque, contemporary organ music, variation form, micro variation.
 
         
     
         
         
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