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THE INFLUENCE OF SCIENTIFIC CONCEPTS ON THE MUSIC AND THOUGHT OF EDGARD VARESE.

Record Type:	Language materials, printed : Monograph/item
Title/Author:	THE INFLUENCE OF SCIENTIFIC CONCEPTS ON THE MUSIC AND THOUGHT OF EDGARD VARESE./
Author:	ANDERSON, JOHN DAVIS.
Description:	143 p.
Notes:	Source: Dissertation Abstracts International, Volume: 45-06, Section: A, page: 1565.
Contained By:	Dissertation Abstracts International45-06A.
Subject:	Biography. -
Online resource:	http://pqdd.sinica.edu.tw/twdaoeng/servlet/advanced?query=8418115

THE INFLUENCE OF SCIENTIFIC CONCEPTS ON THE MUSIC AND THOUGHT OF EDGARD VARESE.
ANDERSON, JOHN DAVIS.

THE INFLUENCE OF SCIENTIFIC CONCEPTS ON THE MUSIC AND THOUGHT OF EDGARD VARESE. - 143 p.

Source: Dissertation Abstracts International, Volume: 45-06, Section: A, page: 1565.

Thesis (D.A.)--University of Northern Colorado, 1984.

Analysis of Octandre disclosed that the underlying compositional procedure was continuous variation on a basic cell of pitch and rhythmic materials and that Varese's unique compositional devices were superimposed on the structure thus derived.Subjects--Topical Terms:

531296
Biography.

THE INFLUENCE OF SCIENTIFIC CONCEPTS ON THE MUSIC AND THOUGHT OF EDGARD VARESE.
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500 $a Source: Dissertation Abstracts International, Volume: 45-06, Section: A, page: 1565.
502 $a Thesis (D.A.)--University of Northern Colorado, 1984.
520 $a Analysis of Octandre disclosed that the underlying compositional procedure was continuous variation on a basic cell of pitch and rhythmic materials and that Varese's unique compositional devices were superimposed on the structure thus derived.
520 $a The work of Edgard Varese is generally acknowledged to have played a significant role in the development of electronic media in contemporary composition, and it has been widely suspected that Varese approached music from a fundamentally scientific perspective. It was found that the literature in this area was not extensive, and hence the purpose of this study was to determine the extent and significance of influences from the physical sciences on the aesthetic philosophy and music of Edgard Varese.
520 $a The method of the study was first to examine writings by and about Varese in an effort to define and clarify his unique aesthetic conceptions. Second, Octandre, one of Varese's compositions, was analyzed. Both standard analytical procedures and Varese's own unique conceptions and terminology were applied to Octandre in order to discover and illustrate the compositional techniques which he created. Finally, Varese's attitudes about and references to the relationship of science and art were examined, and various discoveries and lines of conceptual inquiry from the "new physics," at the beginning of this century, were investigated in order to discover areas of philosophical and practical similarity with Varese's aesthetics and music.
520 $a This study yielded three areas of conclusions. First, it was shown that Varese regarded all sound, music included, as a primarily physical, acoustic phenomenon. He desired, in his own compositions, to create the illusion of sound operating in an inherently intelligent manner within a three-dimensional, spacial context.
520 $a In the last section of the study it was shown that Varese possessed a scientific background and that he believed that art should reflect cultural, particularly scientific change. Several of his self-acknowledged scientific influences were studied. Finally, it was shown that atomic theory, radioactive decay, relativity, quantum theory, and the conflict over causality were directly and significantly related to Varese's unique aesthetic conceptions and musical practices.
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