The Peculiarities of Genre and Conception of Rodion Shchedrin’s “Echo-Sonata” for Solo Violin in the Context of Quests of the Epoch

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Sergei I. Nesterov

Abstract

The article demonstrates analysis of the interactions of style and
genre and discloses the concept of tragic catastrophe in Rodion
Shchedrin’s “Echo Sonata” (dedicated to the composer’s friend,
German violinist Ulf Höllscher) for the irst time. The author
traces out interaction of the Baroque echo genre with the regular
stylistic traits of the sonatapoem
in the form of a monocycle,
the genrerelated
stylistic variations and the contrapuntal fantasia.
The philosophical discussion of the eternal values is relected in
the intense thematic development: in the principles of polyphony
of the microsonic counterpoint and in the polystylistics in the
musical dialogue between Shchedrin’s themes with quotations of
J.S. Bach, Antonio Vivaldi, Eugene Ysaye, Nicolo Paganini, Bela
Bartok and Dmitri Shostakovich.

Keywords: echo, sonata, fantasy, variation, polystylistics,
quotation, mounting, combinatoriality

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How to Cite
Nesterov, S. I. (2014). The Peculiarities of Genre and Conception of Rodion Shchedrin’s “Echo-Sonata” for Solo Violin in the Context of Quests of the Epoch. Music Scholarship / Problemy Muzykal’noj Nauki, (4), 91–97. Retrieved from https://musicscholar.ru/index.php/PMN/article/view/66
Section
Contemporary Musical Art
Author Biography

Sergei I. Nesterov, Rostov State S.V. Rachmaninoff Conservatory

Candidate of Arts,
Professor at the Department for String Instruments

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