Consonance, Dissonance, and Formal Proportions in Two Works by Sofia Gubaidulina

IF 0.4 2区 艺术学 0 MUSIC Music Theory Online Pub Date : 2020-06-01 DOI:10.30535/mto.26.2.7
Noah Kahrs
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Consonance and dissonance are frequently invoked in discussions of Gubaidulina’s music, particularly in terms of the composer’s intentional contrasts between timbres and her golden section-oriented formal planning. In this paper, I use the notion of dissonance to mediate between several competing theories of Gubaidulina’s music and theories of timbre more broadly. Certain passages in her Meditation on the Bach Chorale “Vor deinen Thron tret’ ich hiermit” (1993) are identified as dissonant based on her compositional theories and on sketch material from the Paul Sacher Stiftung, and on further examples drawn from her Am Rande des Abgrunds (2002). Broadly speaking, “dissonant” sounds are closer to white noise than “consonant” sounds, aligning with empirical studies of dissonance perception as well as with spectralist compositional theories. However, Gubaidulina’s music uses this extended notion of dissonance particularly musically; dissonances have specific structural roles in a work and resolve to consonances.
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索非亚·古拜杜林娜两部作品中的和谐、不和谐和形式比例
在讨论古白杜琳娜的音乐时,经常会提到和谐和不和谐,特别是在作曲家有意将音色与她以黄金分割为导向的形式规划进行对比方面。在这篇文章中,我用不和谐的概念来调和古白杜琳娜音乐的几种相互竞争的理论和更广泛的音色理论。根据她的作曲理论和保罗·萨彻基金会的素描材料,以及她在《Am Rande des Abgrunds》(2002)中的进一步例子,她在巴赫合唱《Vor deien Thron tret’ich hiermit》(1993)中的某些段落被认为是不和谐的。广义上讲,“不和谐”的声音比“辅音”的声音更接近白噪声,这与不和谐感知的实证研究以及幽灵主义的作曲理论相一致。然而,古拜杜琳娜的音乐特别在音乐上使用了这种扩展的不和谐概念;不和谐在作品中具有特定的结构作用,并致力于和谐。
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期刊介绍: Music Theory Online is a journal of criticism, commentary, research and scholarship in music theory, music analysis, and related disciplines. The refereed open-access electronic journal of the Society for Music Theory, MTO has been in continuous publication since 1993. New issues are published four times per year and include articles, reviews, commentaries, and analytical essays. In addition, MTO publishes a list of job opportunities and abstracts of recently completed dissertations.
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