Jrgen Hunkemller
ber das Beginnen der Musik Bla Bartks
Although
beginnings and endings are Ňbasic categories of musical formÓ (H.H. Eggebrecht), musicology tends to overlook the topic of how
a composition begins. The author will explore the strategies Bla Bartk uses to begin his
works. Instrumental music from all genres between 1905 and 1945 has been
selected, albeit only those works in which innovative
compositional techniques are employed (peasant song adaptations, palindromes,
compositions with musical quotes, compositions with single-voiced
introductions). The results: 1) novel formal constructions call for
unconventional solutions; 2) when dealing with the objets trouvs of peasants songs, openings
follow a variety of formal schemes; 3) palindromes take into account the
differing circumstances surrounding beginnings and endings; 4) a beginning with
a (borrowed) quote suggests a crypto-religious program; and 5) a work that
opens with a single-voiced introduction connotes a confessional quality, one
that signals a change in BartkŐs compositional
direction.
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