MOSZUMAŃSKA-NAZAR ABOUT HER MUSIC

There are two types of chords that I have favored in all of my music: one of them is a juxtaposition of two minor thirds, the second is built from two superimposed fourths, a perfect fourth and a tritone. I like shifting these harmonies around, but do not write them out in tables or pre-compositional systems. [...] In creating one has to be an egoist, one has to express oneself. [Moszumańska-Nazar, unpublished interview with Trochimczyk, 1995]

I cannot name and define one concrete emotion which is experienced while composing music. Composing is a sum of various experiences: imagination, knowledge, it all comes into play while a piece is being formed, created. There are formal schemas that might be used or rejected, there is the emotional flow and the structuring of the tensions following the outline of a sinusoid, with greater or smaller peaks at certain points in the piece. In order for the form to be proper, the dramatic climax should be located at the point of the golden division (that is about two thirds into the course of the work) - then the form is properly structured in time. Composing requires relying on experiences, searching for best results, listening to the music. [...] In the process of composing, the most important role is played by the creative imagination. Music is different because different people, different composers have different compositional talents. Everyone has a different sense of beauty and every composer creates his or her own sound world, reflecting their own experiences, thoughts and emotions. One could almost say that the character of a person "shines through" the music: one person is emotional, another one is rational, etc. [Moszumańska-Nazar, unpublished interview with Trochimczyk, 1995]

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