Dramat i musiken

Abstract

The aim of this master’s project is to explore ways to perform piano music conceived dramatically. I do this through performance of Beethoven’s Appassionata Op. 57 and of Scriabin’s Piano sonata no. 5 Op. 53, and through performances with film of Prokofiev’s Visions fugitives Op. 22 (suite) and of Schumann’s Dichterliebe Op. 48 (suite) with piano and cello – films which I have conceived of and made myself derived from the dramatic aspect and the physiognomic properties of the music, and in the Schumann project also from the poetry that make up the songs. By writing a reflective and documenting text about the processes through which the artworks are created I am articulating the artistic knowledge manifest in the artworks themselves. I arrive at a conclusion of an approach of music as action and of music as ambience, to be used as a tool in creating dramatic performances of music such as mine.