The projections of musical space-time in Instrumental Songs by Petar Osghian

In commemoration of the 70 th anniversary of Petar Osghian's birth and the release of a three-volume CD set containing the majority of his oeuvre, musicologist Dragana Stojanović-Novičić highlighted Instrumental Songs for 26 female voices (1978) as the piece that most strikingly exemplifies Osghian's mature musical style. Among the many intriguing details, the author chose the piece's "fascinating sonority", particularly in relation to the selected medium. In this regard, it is highly pertinent to situate Osghian's Instrumental Songs within the broader discourse surrounding the phenomenon of musical space-time in the music of the 20 th century. In order to ascertain the genesis of the distinctive sound quality within the vocal media, along with the myriad other facets of this work, we will employ the musicoanalytical procedure based on reading the musical text through the phenomenon of musical space-time.