xelovnebaTmcodneobiTi etiudebi STUDIES IN ART CRITICISM II

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Manuel De Phallia's Composing Style and His
Importance in Spanish Musical Culture
Summary
Ketevan Razmadze
Spanish composer school made an important contribution to
European music. At the boundaries of XIX-XX centuries, in the epoch of
modernist changes, Spanish musical culture was able to revive its past
glory, as the result of influence of different genres especially “French
Impressionism”. An inspirer of this idea was a musician-theorist Philippe
Pedrel, successors - his own apprentices: Isaac Albeniz and Enrique
Granados and Manuel De Phallia later. With his creative work he managed
to revive inviolable wealth of southern Spanish musical-instrumental
folklore and preserve artistic balance and national traditions.
The interest towards creative work of Manuel De Phallia is caused by
his very interesting pattern of folklore, his vocal-instrumental work for part
and piano “7 Spanish Songs”. They are not generally Spanish but exactly
Andalusian, Mersian and Asterial. His national and genre peculiarities are
emphasized as well.
Such kind of attitude towards folk music and possible connection
between Spanish-Caucasian music prompted me to discuss and analyze this
composition in details in the future. At first I am presenting this work
“Manuel De Phallia's Composing Style and his Importance in Spanish
Musical Culture”, which represents a general review of Manuel De
Phallia’s work and his style using material available for me. It should be
underlined that the literature connected with musical knowledge concerning
Manuel De Phallia is very rare and such kind of material is not available in
Georgian at all.
In transitional period of XX-XXI centuries, at the background of
numerous novelties and modern genres I think that it is still urgent to take
care of Georgian aspiration, traditions and national folklore. That is why I
have considered the above mentioned work interesting for the readers.