Astor Piazzolla’s Creative Activity Representation in Guitar Art of the Late 20th and Early 21st Centuries

Abstract

<p>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 20<sup>th</sup> 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.</p>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.

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Stanislav Zhovnir

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  • EP ID EP573085
  • DOI 10.31866/2616-7581.2.2018.153386
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Stanislav Zhovnir (2018). Astor Piazzolla’s Creative Activity Representation in Guitar Art of the Late 20th and Early 21st Centuries. Вісник Київського національного університету культури і мистецтв. Серія: Музичне мистецтво, 0(2), 125-134. https://europub.co.uk/articles/-A-573085