Rumänische Musik und mathematische Verfahren
Romanian Music and Mathematical Procedures

Summary/Abstract: Some Romanian avant-garde composers were fascinated by mathematics and logic. Therefore, they generated compositional systems based on set theory (Anatol Vieru, 1926-1998), on graph theory (Stefan Niculescu, 1927-2008), on Fibonacci sequence and golden ratio (Wihelm Georg Berger, 1929-2003), on thermodynamics, catastrophe theory a.o. (Aurel Stroe, 1932-2008). Their music could be described mainly as radical modernist, and should be analyzed in the context of the communist Romanian society, such scores being oriented towards the west European avant-garde and not towards socialist realism.

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