英文摘要 |
Mana, a suite for piano, was completed in 1935, just two years after Jolivet terminated his studies with Edgar Varèse, and first performed in Paris at La Spirale on 12th December 1935. This suite for piano is one of the most representative work that Jolivet composes befor the war. The present article situates the work in its contemporary context, illuminating points of theoretical significance as they relate to the composer's ongoing creative development and distinctive musical language. For reasons of chronology and style, Mana are generally understood to have been composed in an unsystematic, intuitive and violent form under the influence of Varèse's teaching and his visit to North Africa. These short pieces in fact employ a specific approach to pitch grammar involving the liberal deploy of twelve semitone. The riot that greeted Mana, focussing on the inherent intuitive power of the humain being connects the individual with the universal and can rebuild a new order. |