READING OF DOSTOEVSKY about "The House of the Dead"

Duo for Oboe and Violin by Flavio Santos Pereira

Abstract

This article presents one of the significant chamber work of the Brazilian composer and pedagogue Flavio Santos Pereira, written in 2016. The seven-part suite entitled "Reading of Dostoevsky" based on The House of the Dead by Fyodor Dostoevsky is a "prophetic" work about the present pandemic time of testing not only the existential human instincts and fears but also the spiritual, philosophical and moral values ??on which the mature and complete personality is built and trusted. The article provides a general analysis of the form and the stylistic and compositional artistic techniques that Prof. Dr. Flavio Pereira skillfully uses. The author manages to turn the minimalist structure of the amelodic dodecaphonic proposal into a source of polyphonic, polyrhythmic, stylistic and timbre diversity, and together with the oscillating and incrementing texture, often reaching four-voice overlays, finds its counterbalance in asymmetric extreme movements, synthesizing complex subharmonic timbre combinations. The work can be classified as program music, as it mainly represents the styles of expressionism and impressionism mixed with the polyphonic techniques of a free improvisatory style. The modern work presents a generalizing stylistic diversity with claims to identify the peaks of the epoch of the XX and XXI centuries.

Through this article, the authors aim to induce in young performers an in-depth attitude about the crucial importance of applying the right approach, which is closely related to the didactic model for correct interpretation, differentiation and structuring of interpretive, stylistic and form analysis, both in the traditional works from the period of XVI - XIX century and in the complex works of the era of modernism.