Composing Contemporary Music Through Musical Form from the Past: Perspectives from Compositional Process of Passacaglia [Penciptaan Musik Kontemporer melalui Penggunaan Bentuk Musik Tradisional: Perspektif dari Proses Penciptaan Karya Passacaglia]

Matius Shan Boone

Abstract


In this article, the compositional process in my Passacaglia will provide some new perspectives on how to deal with the notion of the past and present in contemporary music. The preliminary analysis will describe various uses of passacaglia form from different composers across period that provide references to that process. The following detailed analysis will demonstrate my approach to select, transform, and to a further extent, depart from those references. The purpose of the analysis is to demonstrate that the creativity and originality are not necessarily related to the innovation and invention. Rather, creative and innovative way of composing can be found by rediscovering the musical legacy of the past, the method that is too valuable to be ignored and overlooked by many other composers. Musical form does not merely belongs to a particular time and places, but it evolves from time to time as shown by different attempts from various composers across different time and places. The creative way can appear by looking into the root of musical form, examining existing various approaches throughout various periods, and developing individual methods.

 

Abstrak (Indonesia)

Tujuan penelitian ini untuk menawarkan beberapa perspektif baru melalui proses penciptaan komposisi musik inovatif dengan menggunakan bentuk musik tradisional ke dalam konteks musik kontemporer, khususnya yang mengacu pada jalur perkembangan sejarah musik di Eropa. Bentuk musik passacaglia menjadi fokus utama dalam penelitian ini karena meskipun bentuk ini telah muncul ratusan tahun lalu, namun masih kerap dieksplorasi oleh berbagai komponis dari berbagai era musik. Metode penelitian dalam studi ini secara utama menerapkan metode penelitian berbasis praktik  dan melibatkan pendekatan analisis yang sifatnya kualitatif dan deskriptif yang dibagi melalui dua tahapan. Pertama, melalui analisa musik passacaglia yang mewakili berbagai era musik dengan penjabaran nilai kebaruan di setiap era tersebut, dan juga analisa penerapan dan trasnformasi ide dari analisa tahap pertama tersebut dalam proses penciptaan karya penulis Passacaglia. Penelitian ini diharapkan dapat membuka pintu terhadap berbagai ide penggarapan musik yang kreatif dan inovatif dalam mentransformasi bentuk musik tradisi ke dalam konteks masa kini, melalui pengamatan-pengamatan yang sifatnya analitis terhadap pendekatan berbagai komponis dan juga eksplorasi individual.


Keywords


Contemporary Music;Composition;Passacaglia; Musical form

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