Влияние Боннской фонетической школы Вернера Майера-Эпплера на творчество К. Штокхаузена
The Influence of W. Meyer-Eppler’s Bonn School of Phonetics on the Work of K. Stockhausen

Summary/Abstract: The present article is about the influence which the scientific research on phonetics made by Werner Meyer-Eppler and the so called Bonn School of Phonetics exerted upon the theory and practice of composition, in the work of the German avantgardist Karlheinz Stockhausen. Meyer-Eppler had a considerable impact on the formation of Stockhausen as a composer of electronic music, who worked with synthetically generated sound; using phonemes as musical material, and thus inventing a new musical genre, the Sprachkomposition. The Bonn phonetician initiated the installation of the famous electronic studio at the Cologne radio station, which gave the composer the impetus to new conceptions of spatial parameters in music. Meyer-Eppler’s research about the theory of information and communication introduced new ideas and concepts into the art of music, e.g. aleatorics, statistical methods, the informational content of music, and the perception of time in music.

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