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Eufonia i parafonia jako kategorie teoretyczno-muzyczne
Euphony and Parafony as Categories of Music Theory

Author(s): Levon Akopian
Subject(s): Music
Published by: Akademia Muzyczna w Krakowie im. Krzysztofa Pendereckiego
Keywords: euphony; paraphony; Arnold Schoenberg; Giacinto Scelsi; Gérard Grisey; Morton Feldman; Witold Lutosławski; Igor Stravinsky; Dmitri Shostakovich; Galina Ustvolskaya

Summary/Abstract: Studying some stylistically heterogeneous phenomena of the music of recent past, the author has concluded that there are good reasons to include the notion of euphony and its antonym, here termed ‘paraphony’, in the contemporary music-theoretical lexicon. Both notions can be useful as categories, characterizing something essential for an important part of new music and defying adequate description by means of more traditional methodology and terminology.

  • Issue Year: VI/2017
  • Issue No: 11
  • Page Range: 11-38
  • Page Count: 28
  • Language: Polish