Kaleidoscopic Topics in the Music of György Ligeti and Thomas Adès
James Donaldson
Abstract:This article applies the concept of isotopy to music to trace the dynamic appearances and interactions of topics in three works by György Ligeti and Thomas Adès. In contrast to previous applications of isotopy to music, the model I propose here is explicitly topic-centered, leading me to a complementary reconfiguring of Johanna Frymoyer’s hierarchy of topical characteristics. My theoretical adaptions are motivated by the observations that: (1) a topic’s identity is often unclear (".fn_cite($Frymoyer_2017).", "… Show more
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