Streicherimprovisation: Konzertkadenzen

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Subject according curriculum

Improvisation, analysis

Teachers

Prof. Volkhardt Preuss

Scope

Thursdays, 10.00-11.30

Room

Blau 106 (Komposition, Theorie, Multimedia)

Duration

1.5 Semesterwochenstunden

Description

"Che dolce piacere perdere la strada" - "It is a sweet pleasure to get lost": The concert cadenza is an island of freedom and unpredictability. One has the feeling of listening to the soloist playing something very private. The competitive size of the orchestra is gone. Even if the cadenza is often fully composed, it remains improvisation. It reflects what has happened or strays into something completely new.
First we explore the possibilities of free improvisation and let ourselves be surprised by the unexpected order and intensity of uncoordinated communication.
Then we practise ostinato forms of the High Baroque and finally move on to the Viennese Classical period: ornamentation of various kinds and complexity of cadenzas and sequences, alone and in a group, with and without piano; motivic elaborations are not to be missed, nor are harmonic wildnesses, cadential gallantries, simple song-like periodics and, and, and....
Finally, we explore the cadenza as a foreign "piece within a piece", as Alfred Schnittke, for example, demonstrates in Beethoven's Violin Concerto.

Credits

2.5 Creditpoints

Comments

Limited number of participants, pre-registration is required. The seminar is aimed at Bachelor's and Master's students in string classes

Modules

Wahlmodul freie Wahl (alle Studiengänge)