عنوان

G. I. Gurdjieff's Piano Music and Its Application in and outside "The Work"

شماره

LA125481

زبان متن نوشتاري يا گفتاري و مانند آن

انگلیسی

عنوان اصلي

G. I. Gurdjieff's Piano Music and Its Application in and outside "The Work"

نام عام مواد

[Article]

نام نخستين پديدآور

Johanna J. M. Petsche

محل نشرو پخش و غیره

Leiden

نام ناشر، پخش کننده و غيره

Brill

متن يادداشت

Gurdjieff (c. 1866-1949) wrote a diverse collection of piano pieces at his "Institute for the Harmonious Development of Man" at the Chateau du Prieuré d' Avon at Fontainebleau near Paris in a unique collaboration with pupil Thomas de Hartmann, a Ukrainian composer. This music was composed most intensely between the years 1925 and 1927, after Gurdjieff's near-fatal car accident of 1924 when all work on his "Movements" or "sacred dances" had ceased. Thus this music was not written for the Movements but for other spiritual purposes. Gurdjieff would whistle, sing, and tap Eastern-sounding melodies and rhythms, and de Hartmann was required to immediately transform these indications into written Western notation, adding suitable harmonies. Like Gurdjieff's teaching overall, the piano music is best described as a blending of Eastern and Western elements. In Gurdjieff's lifetime this music was not published or recorded, and was mostly performed within his circle of pupils, as is appropriate within an initiatory and personally transmitted spiritual teaching. This article explores the Gurdjieff-de Hartmann music and its relationship to Gurdjieff's overall esoteric teachings. There will also be an examination of how Gurdjieff groups and musicians continue to keep alive this music today, and it will be shown that the large number of recordings released represent its greatest cultural penetration into wider society. Currently hundreds of these recordings are available though, interestingly, most "Work" members are critical of them, arguing that the music only has value when experienced live and in a Work context. Gurdjieff (c. 1866-1949) wrote a diverse collection of piano pieces at his "Institute for the Harmonious Development of Man" at the Chateau du Prieuré d' Avon at Fontainebleau near Paris in a unique collaboration with pupil Thomas de Hartmann, a Ukrainian composer. This music was composed most intensely between the years 1925 and 1927, after Gurdjieff's near-fatal car accident of 1924 when all work on his "Movements" or "sacred dances" had ceased. Thus this music was not written for the Movements but for other spiritual purposes. Gurdjieff would whistle, sing, and tap Eastern-sounding melodies and rhythms, and de Hartmann was required to immediately transform these indications into written Western notation, adding suitable harmonies. Like Gurdjieff's teaching overall, the piano music is best described as a blending of Eastern and Western elements. In Gurdjieff's lifetime this music was not published or recorded, and was mostly performed within his circle of pupils, as is appropriate within an initiatory and personally transmitted spiritual teaching. This article explores the Gurdjieff-de Hartmann music and its relationship to Gurdjieff's overall esoteric teachings. There will also be an examination of how Gurdjieff groups and musicians continue to keep alive this music today, and it will be shown that the large number of recordings released represent its greatest cultural penetration into wider society. Currently hundreds of these recordings are available though, interestingly, most "Work" members are critical of them, arguing that the music only has value when experienced live and in a Work context.

تاريخ نشر

2017

توصيف ظاهري

70-95

عنوان

Religion and the Arts

شماره جلد

21/1-2

شماره استاندارد بين المللي پياييندها

1568-5292

اصطلاح موضوعی

Art History

اصطلاح موضوعی

Comparative Religion & Religious Studies

اصطلاح موضوعی

esoteric practice

اصطلاح موضوعی

G. I. Gurdjieff

اصطلاح موضوعی

History

اصطلاح موضوعی

music

اصطلاح موضوعی

Religious Studies

اصطلاح موضوعی

the Work

اصطلاح موضوعی

Thomas de Hartmann

مستند نام اشخاص تاييد نشده

Johanna J. M. Petsche

شماره بازیابی

10.1163/15685292-02101003

نام الکترونيکي

فرمت انتشار

p

نوع ماده

[Article]

کد کاربرگه

275578

سطح دسترسي

a

تكميل شده

Y