The Form And Artistic Characteristics Of Stefano Gervasoni’s Epicadenza

Stefano Gervasoni is one of the most important Italian composers in the contemporary music world. Nowadays he has played an active role in the European music world and the Europe and even the whole world have paid more and more attention to his music in the music circle. Gervasoni’s music is based on the concise way, the circularity of exploring music development process with unconventional art in detail as well as many possibilities of the diversity combination. Furthermore, he makes good use of economical materials and abundant approaches to maintain the complex changes of high integration. The composers’ subtle treatment of the tone is aimed at exploring the careful sound movement in the acoustic process, namely, the microworld of the sound. They associate the musical works or the elements of the musical works together in the invisible way. The concentration on the details has changed the nature of the repeated composition materials. The materials are not merely the same but to achieve the identity by frequently changing the same materials bit by bit. In the meanwhile, the combination between the repeatability of the materials and the variability of the tone can change the process from enjoying music to exploring music. The subtle change can even arouse the audiences’ attention. Listen carefully to sound movement in the subtle process which is easily neglected, experience the position of sound change and develop unique and delicate music style.This paper focuses on Gervasoni’s work called Epicadenza from the overall conception as well as the treatment of composing techniques and characteristics. In addition, the author analyzes the rhythm techniques and the usage of sound so as to figure out Gervasoni’s composing characteristics in this work.