Meteorites in the orchard: on the structuring potential of functional integration

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  • Francisco Zmekhol Nascimento de Oliveira Universidade Federal de Rondônia

DOI:

https://doi.org/10.5965/2525530405012020130

Keywords:

Music composition, functional tonality, musical form, functional integration

Abstract

From Monteverdi to Mahler, R. Strauss and young Schoenberg, tonality has constantly challenged its very morphological bases and, moreover, it has proved to be rich in terms of forms and formal procedures. The main aim of this paper is to demonstrate the structuring potential of a compositional procedure I call functional integration, which consists in contextually imbuing functionality into chords, melodic excerpts etc. conceived by means other than functional tonality. For this purpose, I present the minimal morphological criteria for the structuring properties of tonality to work (e. g., the functional relations between sections of a work or the relations of reciprocity between local and larger scale levels of harmonic organization); and I report the compositional process of a clarinet piece, in which a process of functional integration is performed. In particular, I conclude that such a procedure has, above all, favored a constant attitude of discovery towards both tonality and the unique resulting form.

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Author Biography

Francisco Zmekhol Nascimento de Oliveira, Universidade Federal de Rondônia

Francisco Zmekhol Nascimento de Oliveira é compositor e professor adjunto do Departamento de Artes da Universidade Federal de Rondônia desde 2014, atuando na licenciatura em música da instituição. Tendo estudado composição na UNICAMP com José Augusto Mannis, Denise Garcia, Jônatas Manzolli e Silvio Ferraz, é doutor em Artes (Processos de Criação Musical) pela USP (2018) e mestre em Música (Processos Criativos) pela UNICAMP (2013), orientado em ambos pelo Prof. Dr. Silvio Ferraz de Mello Filho. É desde 2015 organizador dos Simpósios Internacionais de Música na Amazônia, junto a docentes de outras universidades da região amazônica. Como compositor e como pesquisador, interessa-se pela interação entre a tonalidade funcional e práticas de composição dos séculos XX e XXI.

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2020-10-18

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OLIVEIRA, Francisco Zmekhol Nascimento de. Meteorites in the orchard: on the structuring potential of functional integration. Orfeu, Florianópolis, v. 5, n. 1, 2020. DOI: 10.5965/2525530405012020130. Disponível em: https://revistas.udesc.br/index.php/orfeu/article/view/17619. Acesso em: 22 nov. 2024.

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Vol. 5 No. 1 (2020): Special Issue on Poetics of Contemporary Music

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