MUZICA ÎN SPIRALĂ, DE LA MAKROKOSMOS LA METABIZANTINIRIKON; NOTAȚIE, TEMPORALITATE ȘI SIMBOLISM ÎN CREAȚIA LUI GEORGE CRUMB ȘI OCTAVIAN NEMESCU
SPIRAL MUSIC, FROM MAKROKOSMOS TO METABIZANTINIRIKON; NOTATION, TEMPORALITY AND SYMBOLISM IN GEORGE CRUMB’S AND OCTAVIAN NEMESCU’S OEUVRE

Summary/Abstract: This paper proposes a comparison of two works by George Crumb and Octavian Nemescu, two outstanding composers of the 20th and 21st centuries who recently left us. These two authors built, on different continents, an original musical aesthetic while demonstrating a profound affinity to the spiritual dimension of art. Both composers included spirals in their graphic notation. The partially controlled aleatory they both used opened up a wide range of possible symbolic analytical interpretations. While Crumb’s Makrokosmos claims to be Bartók’s inverted Mikrokosmos, it also evokes the cosmos and the zodiac. Nemescu, for his part, anchors his work Metabizantinirikon in the philosophical realm of pantheism, updating the ritual chant through the sharp inflections of electronic music. These two works speak through the graphic depiction of the spiral in their respective scores: one is engaged with sounding cosmology (Crumb), the other connected to the sacred dimension (Nemescu). Each describes a different case of the sublime in the musical repertoire of the 20th century.

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