Rhythmic Structures in Serial Music: Concerning the Question of Typology and Systematization
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forefront brought in profound transformations into the sphere of
20th century musical composition. One of the domains that came
to embody the conception of the new times was serial music.
The article examines the principles of organization of rhythmic
structures in serial music and proposes a system of classiication
for them. Among the main types of rhythmic structures,
especially prominent are sets of durations and sets of rhythmic
cells (igures). By basing the systematization on various criteria
(types of rhythmic units or the levels of differentiation), the
author classiies the types of durations into regular, irregular, halfregular
ones, as well as mono-formant and poly-formant ones. All
the types of rhythmic structures are illustrated by examples from
compositions by Messiaen, Boulez, Babbitt and Nono. As a result
of his research, the author comes to the conclusion that the search
of the serialist composers were directed at the issues of the inner
construction of time and were conducive towards the realization
of the multilayer and multi-dimensional aspects of the musical
temporal processes.
Keywords: serial technique, rhythmic structures, Olivier
Messiaen, Pierre Boulez, Milton Babbitt, Luigi Nono
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