Symbolic Thinking And Transcendence

Composer Gubaidulina created a total of 9 bayan works. Linked by symbolization, her music and beliefs were connected to endow music creation with religious connotations. Gubaidulina’s ideology and creative concept strongly proved the possibility and necessity that her symbolic thinking was formed. In her bayan works, the symbolization of “humanitarianism” was reflected through creative aesthetics and various parameters of her music works and the symbolization “scientific significance” was specifically embodied through the function of sequence as the organizational structural force for each language element in music. In her bayan works, Gubaidulina developed new performance techniques and tone-colors, enriching chamber Bayan music for unconventional instrumental organization. She also utilized symbolization to emphasis human being’s primary appeal of returning their inherent spirit to natural home and pursuing and admiring so-called “the other side”. Her works were regarded as a model of achieving advanced connotation of music contents through composing techniques.