CONTROLLED CHANCE MUSIC OF P. BOULEZ: BETWEEN ORDER AND CHAOS
Abstract
The article is devoted to the theoretical grounds of P. Boulez’s compositional practice. The main principles of composition and their connection with artistic concepts close to the composer are analyzed.
The works based on the aleatory principle of composition demand a special technique of the analysis as the organization whole in such opuses is influenced by random factors (the performers’ choice of these or those fragments or an order of their following). Boulez’s scores are considered in article from the point of view of the importance of author’s control of process of forming and share of its accident rendered on the basis of the theoretical analysis of the text, synthesis of statements of the composer about a chance music and experience of performances of his works.
Whatever mobile were the musical text and a form in Boulez’s scores, they embody the accurate art concept and mean the structural organization of the opus. And despite plurality of options of a form of compositions of Boulez, the listener recognizes them in each execution by unique author’s material and that artistic design which is reflected and imprinted in each “version” of a form.
About the Author
M. V. Pereverzeva
Russian State Social University.
Russian Federation
4/1, Wilhelm Pik St., Moscow, 129226.
Russian Federation
4/1, Wilhelm Pik St., Moscow, 129226.
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Pereverzeva M.V. CONTROLLED CHANCE MUSIC OF P. BOULEZ: BETWEEN ORDER AND CHAOS. Bulletin of Vaganova Ballet Academy. 2018;(3):125-143. (In Russ.)
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