Relation of Structure, Form and Perception in Post-tonal Music Analysis of Compositions by , Jean Barraqué, Karel Goeyvaerts and Michel Fano

Doctoral forum, SS 2020 Ana Rebrina 1st presentation 12th June 2020 Advisors: Christian Utz, Christa Brüstle, Mark Delaere (KU Leuven) Corpus of Study (readjusted)

Webern Variations for Piano Op. 27 (1936) Babbitt Three Compositions for Piano (1947)

Goeyvaerts Fano Boulez Stockhausen Sonata for Two Pianos (1951) Sonata for Two Pianos (1952) I (1952) Klavierstücke I-IV (1952)

Zimmermann Nilsson Perspektiven (1955) Quantitäten (1957) Current State of Research

• analysis of music = analysis of the • performance analysis score? (CHARM’s publications; Cook, 2013; Leech- Wilkinson, 2009; Rink, 2015) Rethinking Rethinking Music, edited by Nicholas Cook and Mark Everist • sound- and perception-based Rewriting analysis Rewriting Recent Music History: The Development of (Mosch, 2004; Utz, 2017; CTPSO and PETAL Early 1947-1957, edited by Mark Delaere publications)

• no way of knowing if one is “hearing • music psychology – perception the right notes” theories and empirical research (Taruskin, 2015, p. 36) Research Question

perception What influences the perception of serial music and why?

Is perception influenced by structure?

Is macro-form important for structure repertoire performance perception?

Do these connections differ in different performances?

form Methodology

• auditive analysis of musical surface • performance “imagined in their minds” (Leech Wilkinson, 2009, p. 791)

• performance analysis

• formal and structural analysis

• historical background • compositions • recordings Overview of first year

• literature review • perception theories • writings on serialism • analyses • score-based • perception-based • different performances • list of recordings Point music

• each note is individual unit • “static music” • no dynamic tensoin

Goeyvaerts, Sonata for Two Pianos, movement II Perception Details from musical surface – micro-segmentation

• streaming – integration of sound into lines (Bregman, 1990)

Goeyvaerts, Sonata for Two Pianos, movement II, measure 6-7 Inge Spinette & Jan Michiels A B

A

B

heptachords

underlying structure in m. 6-7 pitch duration dynamic artuculation

pp p mf f 1 2 3 4 1 2

2+3+1+1=7 Boulez, Structures Ia, measure 83-87 Alfons & Aloys Kontarsky RI2 mf

RI11 f

R7 ppp

R8 mp • theory of cue abstraction cue - “…salient element that is prominent at the musical surface.” (Deliège, 2001, p. 237)

measure 1 measure 4 measure 28 Babbitt, Three Compositions for Piano, movement II Robert Taub Macro-form

• form is defined by serial procedures • Webern, Babbitt, and Zimmermann – more traditional approach

A A Macro-form

I IIa IIb IIc III I II III IV V

Boulez, Structures Ia, section I-III Fano, Sonata for Two Pianos, section I-V I.I I.II

Boulez, Structure Ic, section Ia-b

• formal boundaries: • in structure – exhaustion of series • in sound – rests, changes in texture, cues

• experiments (Addessi & Caterina, 2005; Addessi, 2010) Alfons & Aloys Kontarsky

Pi-Hsien Chen & Ian Pace

Boulez, Structure Ic Next Step

• focus on performers How pianists approach this music? • performers’ working material • reconstruction of performance from performance scores What influence performers’ interpretations?

• performances of less performed pieces How performers’ decisions influence • rehearsal process perception? • experiment – listening sessions with students References

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