The music of György Kurtág is analyzed from the point of view of sound color. A brief description of what is understood by the term sound color, and various ways of achieving specific coloristic effects, are presented in the Introduction. An examination of Kurtág s approaches to the domain of sound color occupies the chapters that follow. Rather than relying on extended instrumental techniques, Kurtág creates a large variety of sound colors using traditional means such as pitch material, register, density, rhythm, timbral combinations, dynamics, texture, spatial displacement of the...
The music of György Kurtág is analyzed from the point of view of sound color. A brief description of what is understood by the term sound color, and...