Arias
for Voices and Instruments
Maader's arias are among the most significant works of the composer. Melody plays a role of great importance as it serves as an essential form-building element and the melodie lines are noteworthy for their dashing and expasive qualities, with distinetly marked climaxes. Classical restraint and balance give way to unexpected turns in the musical narrative, along with a discrupted symmetry in musical phrases which is reminiscent of arias by M.J.Żebrowski. Both the purely instrumental sections and vocal passages, the motives of which are drawn from instrumental fragments, abound in ornaments. There are numerous melismas in the form of turns, scalic lines or arpeggiaic triads. Rhytmic patterns of short notes (in spite of slow tempi) permeate entire arias and constitute one of the elements contributing to the fascinating play of musical tensions, further enhanced by changes in articulation (staccato, legato) as well as rapid and relatively frequent changes in dynamics (pianissimo, piano, forte and modice forte). As regards compositional technique, homophonic texture predominates. [Aleksandra Patalas]
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- Editor: Piotr Kołodziej
- Introduction by: Aleksandra Patalas
- Cover Design: Anna Lenartowicz
- Series: Musica Claromontana
- ISMN 979-0-2740-0362-3
- Language of edition: eng, pol
- Language of text: lat
- Number of pages: 140
- Cover: softcover
- Type: score
- Size: N4 vertical (235x305 mm)
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