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Wolfgang Rihm的《第五弦乐四重奏》对分析提出了许多挑战,因为它几乎没有重复的材料,没有明确的正式设计,并且包含了丰富多样的音乐手势。我认为,应该将这首作品的姿态与理想化的奥斯特-德国浪漫音乐联系起来理解,这在里姆20世纪70年代的许多作品中都很常见,但在第五四重奏中却没有实现。我追溯了这件作品与浪漫主义的接近,并展示了这件不可预测的正式过程是如何产生由较小过程组成的大规模手势轮廓的。我把指向浪漫主义的过程称为“成为”,而那些远离浪漫主义的进程则称为“瓦解”。在考察了几段值得注意的段落后,我审视了四重奏的大型形式。最后,我对里姆的美学与德国浪漫主义以及20世纪70年代和80年代的后现代主义之间的关系进行了简短的思考,并认为里姆的音乐满足了19世纪初浪漫主义理论家的要求,形成了一种新的浪漫主义风格,建立在对过去被破坏的记忆之上。
Becoming and Disintegration in Wolfgang Rihm’s Fifth String Quartet, Ohne Titel
Wolfgang Rihm’s Fifth String Quartet poses numerous challenges to analysis because it contains little repeated material, no clear formal design, and contains a wealth of diverse musical gestures. I argue that the piece’s gestures should be understood in relation to an idealized Austro-German romantic music, common to much of Rihm’s work from the 1970s, but which fails to materialize in the Fifth Quartet. I trace the piece’s closeness to romanticism and demonstrate how the piece’s unpredictable formal process produces a large-scale gestural contour composed of smaller processes. I call processes directed toward romanticism, “becoming,” and those directed away from it, “disintegrating.” After surveying several noteworthy passages, I examine the quartet’s large-scale form. I conclude with a brief meditation on the relationship between Rihm’s aesthetics and German romanticism and the post-modernism of the 1970s and 1980s, and argue that Rihm’s music fulfills the demands of romantic theorists from the early 19th century, forming a new strain of romanticism built atop the ruined memories of the old.
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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.