The Culminating Function of the Finale in the Symphonic Cycle (on the Example of Arthur Honegger’s Dramatic Symphonies)

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Olga V. Shmakova

Abstract

The article examines the Finales of several symphonies by Arthur Honegger. The compositions presented here finish off in different ways, with an intensification of the tragic element in the Finales, since they express the struggle of the spiritual with the spiritless entity in the situation of the crisis of humanitarian values during the time of World War II. In the Second, Third and Fifth Symphonies the summarizing character of the Finale reveals itself on various levels: those of form, the tonal plan and the aspects of image and intonation. The symphonic collision reflects the essence of the universe as a unity of life and death within the forms of Existence and Otherness.

Keywords: French music, dramatic symphony, culminating Finale

 

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Shmakova, O. V. (2012). The Culminating Function of the Finale in the Symphonic Cycle (on the Example of Arthur Honegger’s Dramatic Symphonies). Music Scholarship / Problemy Muzykal’noj Nauki, 11(2), 268–273. Retrieved from https://musicscholar.ru/index.php/PMN/article/view/392
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Artistic World of Musical Piece