Salvatore Sciarrino—Maurice Ravel: Instrumental Anamorphose on the Example of the “Night” Compositions

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DOI 10.34690/223

Author Olga E. Bochikhina

Affiliation Tchaikovsky Moscow State Conservatory, Moscow, Russia

Email contemp@yandex.ru

ORCID

0000-0002-9918-7746

Abstract

Salvatore Sciarrino’s “De la nuit” (1971) and “Anamorfosi” (1981) are based on the works of Maurice Ravel. And there is much more Ravel’s music in these than Sciarrino himself. “Exercizio” (1972) is a kind of author’s commentary by Sciarrino to his own opus “De la nuit.” In fact, “De la nuit” is a double portrait of Sciarrino and Ravel or, more correctly, Ravel, heard by the ears of Sciarrino. Presence of Sciarrino in this “Ravel” is much more than Ravel himself (despite the preponderance of Ravel’s music). “De la nuit” is the quintessence of Ravel’s “night” works “Gaspard de la nuit” and “Prélude à la nuit” from the cycle “Rapsodie espagnole.” For Sciarrino, the night is a way of perception, an aesthetic category, a method of composition, a way of contact with the material as well as matter itself, and at the same time the threshold between the worlds of Sciarrino and Ravel: that generates their instrumental doubleness. On the one hand, Sciarrino becomes an optical device that transforms the sound of the original in his mind. On the other hand, such a device appears as an instrument or a group of instruments. In this aspect, their action is akin to the action of a mirror or water surface, thanks to which the object becomes less recognizable.

Keywords Salvatore Sciarrino, Maurice Ravel, Carlo Gesualdo, anamorphose, music of the 20th century, music composition techniques, intertextuality

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Bochikhina, O. E. “Salvatore Sciarrino—Maurice Ravel: instrumental anamorphose on the example of the ‘night’ compositions.” Muzykal’naya akademiya [Music Academy], no. 1, 2022, pp. 116–137, doi:10.34690/223. (In Russ.)

Published 14.10.2021

Approved 28.10.2021

Submitted 31.03.2022

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