菲利普·格拉斯(Philip Glass,1937-)是简约主义音乐的代表人物之一.他的作品显示出简约主义技法与传统音乐形式的碰撞.在他的《第五交响曲"安魂、中阴、应身"》(Symphony NO.5-Requiem,Bardo and Nirmanakaya,1999)中,运用了多种宗教文本构成的宏大叙事,在构成宏大叙事的技术上,突破了简约音乐的思维定式与技术限制,使该作品更具备个人风格.文章对该作品的复杂题材和简约性技术进行详解,阐述格拉斯如何用全新的简约手法来建构音乐的宏大叙事.
The Grand Narrative Constructed by Minimalism Characteristics of Philip Glass's Symphony NO.5-Requiem,Bardo and Nirmanakaya
Philip Glass(1937-)is one of the representative composers of minimalist.His works show the collision of minimalist techniques and traditional musical forms.In his Symphony NO.5-Requiem,Bardo and Nirmanakaya(1999),he quotes distinct religious texts for the purpose of mag-nificent narrative,furthermore he get outside the idea paradigm and technique limitation of the mini-malist to contribute the technique for it,so this output signified quite personality.The article ex-plains the complex subject matter and the minimalist technique of the work,as well as illustrates how Glass uses a new minimalist approach to construct the grand narrative of the music.
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