Le 28 juin 2017
de 11h30 à 12h00
Le Patio (université de Strasbourg)
22 rue René Descartes, 67000 Strasbourg
salle 3204
Séance - Contemporary Musical Horizons (I)
Pré-acte / Acte
Auteur : Bohdan Syroyid
Frédéric Devreese (1929) is a prominent Belgian classical and film composer who has written over 200 musical compositions, as well as, 27 film scores. In this paper, we approach the analysis of four of his compositions, including one film score cue, basing our analysis on the presence and absence of silence. Currently, there are not many modern musicological analysis from the silence perspective, particularly, if we take into consideration that some of most influential analytical methods and theories developed during the past century did not address directly the silence phenomenon (e.g. Schenkerian Analysis, Set-Theoretical Analysis). Therefore, a theoretical framework is built upon the revision of rather unpopular and segregated theories about silence functions and classifications developed throughout the 20th Century. The chosen musical examples for the present study were personally recommended by Frédéric Devreese as being relevant by its silence usage. Our subject of study is limited to silences that are represented on the score (i.e. rests, phrase marks, staccatos, breath marks, etc.). Consequently, a better understanding of the analysed compositions is achieved, and an analytical method for studying silence functions is distilled and applied, opening horizons to future silence-based musicological analysis.
