LATVIAN CONCEPT MUSIC IN THE BEGINNING OF THE 21ST CENTURY
LATVIAN CONCEPT MUSIC IN THE BEGINNING OF THE 21ST CENTURY

Summary/Abstract: The article is devoted to the problem of defining a current contemporary Latvian music in front of programmatic music. The current is named in this research " music concept " because it has its core an idea or concept that controls the hardware. To place this type of music in history and teach in a histoirique context, it is important to distinguish the principles of romantic and modern music. Music concept that appeared to Latvia in the first decade of the 21st century , like the programmatic music in some aspects : they both have an extra-musical content (located outside of music , you could say ) and a semantic code leaves "translate" extra-musical ideas into sound. Nevertheless, the music is different concept of programmatic music primarily by its specific code. Semantic concept is worked into the deep structure of the work : calculated in mathematical figures of rhythm, for example. This is why we can not hear or read in the musical score. The idea is hidden, it does not open by only associations. Beyond code, music concept is organized by a principle called space-time . It is a metaphorical term for a musicology in which however is limited by the means of expression moving structure - by a certain figure of rhythm or harmonic formula . The term music concept is borrowed from the current avant-garde music represented by John Cage, La Monte Young and colleagues. It appears in Europe and the United States in the 60 - 20th century art, and also had an extra-musical idea , and coded a very simple and limited equipment .

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