Kresánek’s Conception of Musical Thinking and Its Potential Use in Reflection on the Music of the 20th Century Cover Image

Kresánkova koncepcia „hudobného myslenia“ a možnosti jej využitia pri reflexii hudby 20. storočia
Kresánek’s Conception of Musical Thinking and Its Potential Use in Reflection on the Music of the 20th Century

Author(s): Markéta Štefková
Subject(s): Music, Modern Age
Published by: Ústav hudobnej vedy Slovenskej akadémie vied
Keywords: Kresánek; musical thinking; significance of music; Ligeti; Musica ricercata;

Summary/Abstract: Kresánek’s trilogy Fundamentals of Musical Thinking (1977), Tonality (1982) and Tectonics (1994) is based on an original conception of musical thinking. He understands the basis and development of musical thinking as a cooperation of three components: sonoristics, dynamism and thematics. For clarification of Kresánek’s ideas, the author points to parallel ideas in the concept of musical thinking of Hans Heinrich Eggebrecht. Taking as her foundation Kresánek’stheory of an analogy between the phylogenetic development of the musical thinking of mankind and the ontogenetic development of musical thinking in the individual, the author presents a conception of the cycle Musica ricercata (1951 – 1953) by György Ligeti. Based on an extreme reduction of the material, Ligeti’s work represents a noteworthy compositional concept, whose poetics “copies” the evolution of musical thinking.

  • Issue Year: 4/2013
  • Issue No: 2
  • Page Range: 246-264
  • Page Count: 19
  • Language: Slovak