The principles of re-intonation of multinational folklore in the work of Ludwig van Beethoven (on the example of the collection of arrangements “Songs of Different Nations”)

A.H Davitadze

doi:10.34064/khnum1-53.05

Abstract

The principles of re-intonation of multinational folklore in the work of Ludwig van Beethoven (on the example of the collection of arrangements “Songs of Different Nations”)

Highlights

The study of Beethoven’s arrangements of folk songs touches upon the corpus of theoretical and methodological issues related to the problem “a composer and folklore”, and, with the re-intonation of folklore in composer creativity, with the dialogue of “national and international”, “folk and professional”, “traditional and modern”
The main tool of dialogue between the author and the folk music is the method of re-intonation, which in L. van Beethoven’s creativity is implemented in samples of ethnically different folk song sources arrangements
The certain logics is observed in the principle of the collection assembly

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Introduction

The study of Beethoven’s arrangements of folk songs touches upon the corpus of theoretical and methodological issues related to the problem “a composer and folklore”, and, with the re-intonation of folklore in composer creativity, with the dialogue of “national and international”, “folk and professional”, “traditional and modern”. These phenomena contemporary musicology considers more often in relation to new and newest directions in the musical art, defining them in terms of “folklore”, “neo-folklorizm”, “new folklore wave”; they represent by various forms of direct or indirect appealing to folklore sources.

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