Abstract
The article focuses on the personalized genre and style approach to the analysis of Latin American composers’ artistic activity for the guitar, which gained universal acclaim and popularity in academic music culture. The background context for the following analysis causes the necessity in thorough learning of Latin American composers’ creative activity for the guitar as an inseparable part of Latin American music. The author highlights the peculiarities of the main forms and genres of guitar works by Argentinian composer Astor Piazzolla. There has been defined the linkage between guitar works and major style tendencies of Latin American music in the 20th century. Contemporary performance practice is being observed together with the examples of guitar redeeming by Astor Piazzolla. Scientific novelty consists in identifying the relevance of his creative activity and importance of his phenomenal creativity in combining genres of light and classical music in a modern guitar repertoire. Main scientific approaches, which have been presented in the article, are as follows: historic and cultural (to analyze the context of composition creating for the guitar), source-based method (to define notes and sound sources of the research), personality-theory (to analyze separate performers’ contribution to the representation of composers’ creative activity). Astor Piazzolla’s creative activity is based on the analysis of notes score and audios for the guitar by contemporary musicians, determining genre range as well as style characteristics.Creativity of Astor Pjaccolli, his unique performing style, a combination of authentic musical traditions of folk music and new musical images significantly influenced the development of guitar art, in particular, expanded the performing pedagogical and concert repertoire of guitarists.
Highlights
Latin American music – (Spanish musicalatinoamericana) – a general name for musical styles and genres typical for Latin America, it refers to those who originate from there as well
Music culture of Latin America historically formed on the grounds of American (Indian), European and African sources
Bulletin of Kyiv National University of Culture and Arts Series in Musical Art depending on the level of Indian culture, Afro-American population quantity and participation, the links of the region with metropolis, economic, political, cultural development, and other reasons of historic character. These three genetic trends are clearly seen in the structure of contemporary folk Latin American music
Summary
Latin American music – (Spanish musicalatinoamericana) – a general name for musical styles and genres typical for Latin America, it refers to those who originate from there as well. There is no general and historic idea about Latin American composers’ creativity for the guitar, their artwork has already appealed to both performers-composers and audience. The performer sticks to jazz fusion, an amalgamation of jazz rock, flamenco, Latin American and Arabian music He is the holder of the prestigious awards given by the magazines World Magazine and Guitar Player Magazine, Tomasa Edisona and German Echo. Two tangos belong to the most popular plays from the series «Las cuatros estaciones porteñas» «Verano porteño» and «Primavera porteña» have been adopted for the guitar These and other works by Astor Piazzolla were included into the repertoire of a Croation and American guitarist and educator Ana Vidovic. He is an official performer representative of the American guitar string and musical accessorize producer, mostly for the guitars, D’Addario (Topchii, 2016)
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