The multi-faceted nature of twentieth-century music is anything but familiar to
listeners who are accustomed to hearing Western music based on ideas steeped in the
classical tradition. The emergence of new tonalities and atonality as well as new
temporalities challenged and revolutionized commonly accepted notions of musical
sound and musical motion. The surge of new music characterized by the treatment of
sound as independent entity, the absence of functional tonality and the dissolution of
metric order has created new demands on the perceptual-cognition abilities of the
listener.
The perception of atonal musical works has been a subject of interest for many
scholars in the field of music cognition. The findings of recent studies addressing this
issue have pointed to the presence of salient features as an aid to the comprehension
of relationships between musical events in an atonal composition. Salient features
which effectively serve as structural cues include change/contrast and repetition, with
the latter emerging as the most frequently used and easily acknowledged form of
salience.
An examination of the role of repetition in the music of the post-serial American
composer George Crumb sheds light on how repetition, a common ingredient in many
conventional models of organization, is able to operate in atonal pieces as structural
cue to patterns underpinning the musical form. The investigation further reveals the
possible role of repetition, where it is associated with timbre, as clue to structural
direction in compositions that subscribe to the contemporary notion of musical
motion. / published_or_final_version / Music / Master / Master of Philosophy
| Identifer | oai:union.ndltd.org:HKU/oai:hub.hku.hk:10722/167229 |
| Date | January 2011 |
| Creators | Lo, Ting-cheung., 盧定彰. |
| Contributors | Chan, HY, Biancorosso, G |
| Publisher | The University of Hong Kong (Pokfulam, Hong Kong) |
| Source Sets | Hong Kong University Theses |
| Language | English |
| Detected Language | English |
| Type | PG_Thesis |
| Source | http://hub.hku.hk/bib/B48199539 |
| Rights | The author retains all proprietary rights, (such as patent rights) and the right to use in future works., Creative Commons: Attribution 3.0 Hong Kong License |
| Relation | HKU Theses Online (HKUTO) |
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