Year: 2024
Type: article
Abstract: In Ligeti's Lux aeterna micropolyphony and the lack of an apparent system of pitch organization comparable to functional tonality seem to preclude goal-directed processes of musical motion. Yet, this article will demonstrate the existence of goals and paths leading toward them on various levels (short-, medium-, and long-term). These teleological procedures include contextually establishing intonational centers as goals; directed linear motion; the completion of twelve-tone aggregates as well as the extension of the completion idea to other parameters. As a final observation , while goal-directed processes span the entire composition, some of them, in conjunction with the text, transcend the work itself, and project goals into infinity.
Source: New Sound
Author: Miloš Zatkalik
Institution: University of Arts in Belgrade
Language: English
Subfield: Music
Field: Arts and Humanities
Domain: Social Sciences
Open Access status: diamond
OpenAlex ID: W4405583977