Abstract:
This paper presents analytical observations and critical reflections on the youngest generation of Slovak female composers and explores their stylistic and compositional departure points. The author evaluates the compositions of female representatives of the Bratislava school of composition, including Ema Boleková (2004), Tereza Jaďuďová (2001), Táňa Hrdinka (1996) and Olesia Stepura (2004, Ukraine), and identifies the contents behind the rhetorical gestures in their works. She seeks to capture the composers’ orientation, conceptual frameworks, compositional techniques, and philosophy, and discusses how they balance postmodernist and metamodernist aesthetics. She believes the creation of artefacts through the use of silence, micro-gestures, repetition, the golden ratio, and internal structure to be crucial for them. She also discusses notions like linear narrative, culmination, pathos, and horizontal field of interactions and explores the influence of the legacies of composers like Luigi Nono, Igor Stravinsky, Morton Feldman, Helmut Lachenmann, and Olivier Messiaen on these female composers.