Dragonslayer: musical composition and mythical thought
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The work Vá¹›trahan (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.Downloads
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