NATIONAL TRADITIONS AND TECHNIQUES OF THE XXTH CENTURY COMPOSITION IN ALBERTO GINASTERA’S SONATA FOR GUITAR

• Published in: Arts education and science Vol. 1; no. 38; pp. 24 - 38
• Main Authors: Sinelnikova, Olga V., Maksimova, Darya D.
• Format: Journal Article
• Language: English
• Published: 2024
• ISSN: 2410-6348; 2658-5251
• DOI: 10.36871/hon.202401024

The article is devoted to the work of the Argentine composer Alberto Ginastera and the study of his Sonata for guitar Op. 47. This work represents Ginastera’s style as an organic combination of national traditions and achievements of professional music art of the XXth century. The article analyses the four parts of the work in order to identify elements of traditional culture as the basis of its musical material. Ginastera uses rhythms, intonations, melodic formulas, texture and timbre effects of Argentine folklore, such genres as malambo, milonga, vidala, chacarera. The guitar playing itself with its original sound production techniques goes back to the traditional musical culture of Argentina. In the Sonata, Ginastera uses serial dodecaphonic, sonorous, aleatoric composition techniques, natural and symmetrical frets, and includes quotation as ways of developing musical material. The article examines the composer’s original refraction of avant-garde techniques and methods of their adaptation to folklore material, which lead to an interesting result. A comprehensive analysis of the Guitar Sonata is carried out against the broad socio-cultural background: it is preceded by a brief excursion into the folklore traditions of Argentina and a characterisation of the evolution of Ginastera’s work.