ANOTHER CONTEMPORARY CONTRIBUTION TO THE CONTEXTUALIZATION OF THE PASSACAGLIA.

The reason for this analysis of the work Sinfonia - passacaglia, one of Jugoslav Bošnjak's (1954) latest works, was its premiere in 2007. In terms of style, compositional technique and genre, this one-movement orchestral composition proves the author's loyalty to the creative poetics he began to build in the early 1990s. It confirms Bošnjak's devotion to orchestral sound, his skill in exploiting the expressive resources of this medium, virtuosity in using and correlating instrumental colours, and determination to create communicative music. The author of this text particularly focuses on the way in which compositional procedures paradigmatic of the passacaglia have been combined with procedures typical of symphonic thought and symphonic style. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]