BAROQUE REFERENCES IN WORKS OF VLASTIMIR TRAJKOVIC

The article examines Baroque references in three Trajkovic's compositions: Arion, Le nuove musiche per Chitarra ed Archi op. 8 (1979), Le retour des zephyres ou "Zefiro torna" op. 25 (2001) and solo song Renouveau from the cycle Cinq poemes de Stephane Mallarme op. 29, in its version for voice, flute and piano (2003), all these compositions being unified by the idea of modernity and novelty, metaphorically contained also in the idea of renewal of nature, which connects music of the moderns from the beginning of the 17th century and Trajkovic's search for new paths in music, opposite to gothic tangles of the Avant-garde. Multiple literary and musical trans-historical relations can be observed in the solo song Renouveau. However, from these compositions, implicit generic relations, far more than explicit para-textual references, with the whole corpus of themes, forms, texts, discourses as well as crucial poetic concepts of the 17th-century music can be inferred.