Language(s): Italian

Keyword(s):

Analysis ,  Structural Analysis ,  Electroacoustic Music ,  Electronic Music ,  Serialism ,  Musicology of Electroacoustic Music [MEM]

Abstract:

The author analyses the concept of timbre following A. Schoenberg’s theory: electronic music allows solutions only introduced in the “Harmonielehre”. The article shows that Stockhausen not only succeeds in creating a series of acoustic timbres which previously were only possible in an electronic music context, but also generates totally new frequency associations and correlated musical structures. Schatt analyses 5 instrumental groups used in the piece, their combinations and concatenations of acoustic timbres and/or ring modulates timbres, and demonstrates Stockhausen’s initial aim: a well balanced connection between Mathesis and emotio.

Abstract translation(s):

(italiano)

SCHATT, Peter W. (2005). L'arte della transizione : funzioni dell'elettronica in Mixtur di Karlheinz Stockhausen