Signification in atonal, amotivic music? Extending the properties of actoriality in Ligeti's second string quartet
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 10739403 |
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| Authors | Bertha Spies (University of Pretoria, corresponding author) |
| Year | 2014 |
| Volume | 2014 |
| Issue | 202 |
| Publication date | 2014-01-01 |
| Open Access | Yes |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | Semiotica (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 0037-1998 • E-ISSN: 1613-3692 |
| Publisher | Walter de Gruyter GmbH (PUBLISHER • DE) |
| DOI | 10.1515/sem-2014-0042 |
| OpenAlex | W2067245917 |
| Language | EN |
| References cited | 5 |
In the absence of melodic and motivic structures, how does signification \nfunction in atonal music? By extending the properties of actoriality, this article \nfocuses on the goal-directedness of kinetic energy as an independent property \nof actoriality. The demonstration focuses on various modalities of goal-directed \nkinetic energy in meaningful segments of György Ligeti’s second string quartet \n(1968) in order to promote an understanding of the overall design. Because time \nand space are integrated in the various modalities of atonal musical processes, a \nconceptual framework for making sense of signification in Ligeti’s string quartet \nas a whole becomes possible
Art · Epistemology · Function (biology) · Linguistics · Literature · Melody · Musical · Order (exchange) · Physics · Property (philosophy) · Space (punctuation) · String (physics) · Theoretical physics · Computer Science · Music Technology and Sound Studies · Musicology and Musical Analysis · Philosophy
| Highly cited | No |
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