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Journal Article
Musical Form as a Framing Device: Absolute Music and Desiderius a Dó The Second Desiderius by Pádraig Ó Cíobháin
2025
Overview
This paper undertakes a close reading of European classical music forms used as a framing device in the Irish language novel Desiderius a Dó (1995) by Pádraig Ó Cíobháin. Considered one of the seminal novels of modern Irish, Ó Cíobháin’s work contains what the scholar Irina Rajewsky describes as “intramedial references to visual arts, music, cinema, literature and architecture”. Classical music occupies a central place in the novel, and is essential for an understanding of its plot, characterization, narrative and its thematic concern with ideas of binaries and performance. The paper examines absolute music forms characteristic of the classical period in the novel, explores how Ó Cíobháin uses liturgical music and chant, and concludes that the overall effect of the writer’s approach is a reimagination of the Irish language novel within a European frame that is remarkable for the depth and scope it gives the characters and the narrative. Avtorica v prispevku razišče vlogo klasičnih evropskih glasbenih oblik kot pripovednega okvira v irskem romanu Desiderius a Dó (1995) avtorja Pádraiga Ó Cíobháina. Roman velja za enega najpomembnejših romanov v sodobni irščini in po mnenju Irine Rajewsky vključuje »intramedialne reference na vizualne umetnosti, glasbo, kinematografijo, književnost in arhitekturo«. Klasična glasba zavzema osrednje mesto v romanu in je ključna za razumevanje zapleta, karakterizacije ter same pripovedi in njenega tematskega osredotočanja na binarizme ter glasbo kot uprizoritev. Pričujoče besedilo preučuje klasične oblike absolutne glasbe v omenjenem romanu, opredeli načine, kako Ó Cíobháin uporablja liturgično glasbo in napeve, ter v zaključku ugotavlja, da je splošni učinek avtorjevega pristopa ponovna umestitev irskega romana znotraj evropskega okvira na način, ki izstopa zaradi globine in širine, ki jo daje likom in pripovedi.
Publisher
University of Ljubljana, Faculty of Arts,University of Ljubljana Press (Založba Univerze v Ljubljani)
