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Commenting on a performance of two musical works that were played as the starting point for this discussion – Anton Webern’s Drei kleine Stücke (1914) for violoncello and piano op. 11 and Helmut Lachenmann’s Ein Kinderspiel (1980) for piano – Jörn Peter Hiekel observes that speaking about music and speaking through music particularly condition one another in new music. Both Webern and Lachenmann, by different compositional means, condense familiar musical gestures until they turn into a »language of their own«. In Lachenmann’s work, which refers to well-known children songs, this process is closely connected to what Albrecht Wellmer has called »wordliness« (Welthaltigkeit). More generally, the serialist »rebellion against music’s resemblance to language« (Adorno) shows a paradoxical twist towards sedimentation in the form of a new emerging language, as Clemens Gadenstätter explains with reference to Karlheinz Stockhausen’s Gruppen (1955–56). In new music musical idioms have been thoroughly destabilized yet always re-contextualized within established formulae. The panellists agree on a notion of both language and music that is not conceived as a closed system, but rather a network of relations transformed in time. Hence no distinct boundary can be drawn between syntax and semantics in music, nor is there any musical language that communicates a universal meaning (despite Joseph Haydn’s claim to the contrary). In addition – as anecdotes from Luigi Nono and Helmut Lachenmann document – the ambiguity of musical meaning is also relevant for composers who might be (favourably) surprised by unorthodox performances of their works that seemingly contradict the composers’ intentions, but in fact contribute to unfolding the multiplicity of meanings in a work.

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The lecture recital was given on November 20, 1972. The discussion of Webern's Variations and Dallapiccola's Quaderno Musicale consisted of a analysis of the two works followed by a comparison of stylistic and performance aspects. The two works were then performed. In addition to the lecture recital four other public recitals were given. Two of these consisted entirely of solo literature for the piano. The third recital was a vocal chamber music recital and the fourth consisted of a piano concerto performed with an orchestra.

Twelve-tone music illustrates many characteristics relative with those of conventional tonal form, though works are based on a different composition method. The fundamental question of twelve-tone music arises in debate on terminology between tonal and atonal as well as methodology of musical analysis. Certain theorists try to approach twelve-tone music by traditional harmonic views rather than by pitch-class set theory. Conventional harmonic aspects arise from the fact that both tonal and twelve-tone music share similar narrative strategies. This point is explored in examining Anton Webern's Quartet for Violin, Clarinet, Tenor-Saxophone and Piano, Op. 22, which displays connection to tonal music. The present study seeks to examine certain features of the composer's working in pitch materials; i.e., the dispositions of pitch classes and the characteristics of the matching dyads, and thereby to disclose the connection between twelve-tone methods and conventional harmony.

Arbetets fokus är på atonalitet och tonalitet och hur dessa tonspråk påverkar fyra individer med en musikutbildning känslomässigt. Frågeställningens bakgrund består av tre grundparametrar som belyser känslor, tonal och atonal musik samt hur olika tonspråk tolkas till visuell media. En audiovisuell artefakt har skapats bestående av två olika kompositioner; en atonal och en tonal komposition som sedan har synkroniserats med en egen producerad kortfilm. Undersökningen har sedan genomförts med ett test där fyra respondenter fick lyssna och titta på den audivisuella artefakten. Detta test följdes sedan upp med en semi-strukturerad intervju som behandlade de fyra respondenternas upplevda känslor och deras förhållande till känslospektrumet; ångest, spänning och oförmågan av att slappna av. Utifrån resultatet av undersökningen påvisades en skillnad i upplevda känslospektrum mellan den respondent som besatt en erfarenhet och en vana av atonal musik och de övriga respondenterna. Det intressanta i denna upptäckt handlar om möjligheten att det inte är utbildning i sig som är avgörande för hur olika individer tolkar olika tonspråk, utan att en väg för att uppskatta atonal musik är en kombination av erfarenhet, vana och utbildning, för att kunna skapa en förmåga att se bortom generella stereotyper för musik. I en framtida och mer omfattande undersökning skulle ett fokus kunna läggas på de centrala begreppen erfarenhet och vana inom målgruppen utbildade; för att undersöka närmare om dessa upptäckter stämmer eller om det är tillfälligheter för denna studies resultat. / <p>Det finns övrigt digitalt material (t.ex. film-, bild- eller ljudfiler) eller modeller/artefakter tillhörande examensarbetet som ska skickas till arkivet.</p><p>There are other digital material (eg film, image or audio files) or models/artifacts that belongs to the thesis and need to be archived.</p>