Analytical fragments concerning Gyorgy Kurtag's "...concertante..." opus 42

Title: Analytical fragments concerning Gyorgy Kurtag's "...concertante..." opus 42
Identifier: d_2009_2013:ec7e0552b695:10325
identifier: 10195
Creator: Salvage, R. David,
Contributor: Stephen Blum
Date: 2009
Language: English
Publisher: City University of New York.
Subject: Music | Bartók | fragment | interval cycles | Kurtág
Abstract: Despite the many apparent differences between it and the majority of compositions in his oeuvre, Gyorgy Kurtag's ... concertante..., op. 42, (2002-2003, rev. 2006) offers analysts a profound and welcome opportunity to explore his approach to large-scale form. While ...concertante... reflects a formal tightening relative to Kurtag's famous song cycles, its approach to form remains the same: fragments are grouped into sections which in turn comprise the entire work. The difference is that taken together the fragments in ...concertante ... bear strong traces of conventional formal paradigms. Because ...concertante...'s fragmentary nature is not as apparent as other pieces, the analyses in this essay draw attention to Kurtag's many techniques of musical interruption--an idea central to the concept of fragment advanced here. Because of the difficulties inherent in the word "fragment," the analyses alternate with discussions about how the term is applied in Kurtag's music.
Type: dissertation
Source: 2009_2013.csv
degree: Ph.D.
Program: Music

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