Музикални диктати в XX век
Musical Dictates of the 20th Century

Summary/Abstract: The subject of this text addresses the field of musical language and concerns all phenomena, which, besides being the artistic definition of the 20th century, also quickly become banal, thanks primarily to their epigones, rather than to their inspirers. By “dictate” is meant the leading to a certain extent position of a standardized creative activity or behavior (usually not continuous) that is transformed into a criterion of actuality, self-confirmation, and so forth - in mass practice. In this way, certain values are adopted and tastes are created, offering an opportunity for manipulation. “Solidified” creative ideas “cease their movement” (Schoenberg), and despite their “innovation” and “openness” they become in the end a behavioral “umbrella,” which guarantees their inclusion in the criteria for “actuality.” The theme is developed through focusing on the following questions: the 20th century as the “late style” of mature civilization; language and inflation of sign; secondary language; Boulez and “pli” as a symbol of spirituality; the hyperbolization of the symbolic; the violence of rationality; the fashion dictate; unification; and the dictate of sonority. The present text excludes issues of numerical symbolism, of “the lie and the truth” and their potential for creative fixation, of the postmodern illusion, of cryptophony and the double encoding, of conceptualization as a pose and of silence as conceptualization, of the relativity of phenomena such as New Complexity / New Simplicity, and the problem of the correlation composing-listening, among others.

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