Agon - Agon

Japanese: 《アゴン》 - あごん
Agon - Agon

…During his time in America, he worked on revising and arranging his own compositions, while composing works such as the opera The Prodigal's Progress. After Schoenberg's death in 1951, he became interested in the twelve-tone technique (twelve-tone music) invented by Schoenberg, and studied Webern's works in particular. He composed ballets such as Agon and Movements, as well as instrumental music using the twelve-tone technique. In his final years, Stravinsky's musical style was one that dealt with Christian themes using the twelve-tone technique, and he produced a succession of masterpieces of religious music, such as the choral works Canticum Saculum, Sermons, Narratives, Prayer, Requiem Canticles, and Abraham and Isaac for narrator and chamber orchestra. …

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Japanese:

…アメリカ時代には,自作の改訂・編曲の仕事に従事しつつ,オペラ《放蕩者のなりゆき》などの作品を作曲した。51年にシェーンベルクが死去すると,シェーンベルクの創案した十二音技法(十二音音楽)に興味をもち,とくにウェーベルンの作品を研究し,精緻をきわめた十二音技法によって《アゴン》や《ムーブメンツ》などのバレエ曲,器楽曲を作曲した。最晩年のストラビンスキーの音楽様式は,キリスト教的な題材を十二音技法によって処理するもので,合唱曲《カンティクム・サクルム》《説教,説話,祈り》《レクイエム・カンティクルズ》や語り手と室内オーケストラのための《アブラハムとイサク》などの宗教音楽の傑作が次々に発表された。…

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