@article{Irlandini_2021, title={Dragonslayer: musical composition and mythical thought}, volume={9}, url={https://periodicos.unespar.edu.br/index.php/vortex/article/view/4646}, DOI={10.33871/23179937.2021.9.3.5}, abstractNote={<span lang="EN-US">The work <em>Vá¹›trahan</em> (2017), composed by Luigi Antonio Irlandini for baritone saxophone and percussion, creates a new relationship between musical and mythical thought, explored also in many of his other compositions since 1988. In this piece, the Vedic myth of Indra slaying the Cosmic Dragon Vá¹›tra suggests structuring procedures, instrumental sound sources and sound images, resulting on a congruency between the music and the myth far greater than a simple programmatic relationship. The discussion of some of the compositional processes in this work, as they were suggested by mythical thought, illustrates the composer’s idea of composition as cosmology.</span>}, number={3}, journal={Revista Vórtex}, author={Irlandini, Luigi Antonio}, year={2021}, month={dez.}, pages={5} }