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Volume 35, Number 3, pages 271-274 (2024)
https://doi.org/10.26830/symmetry_2024_3_271
CYCLIC RECURRENCE AS A BASIS OF MUSICAL TIME ARRANGEMENT
Konstantin Zenkin
Moscow P.I. Tchaikovsky Conservatory, Moscow, 125009, Russia
Email: kzenkin@list.ru
Abstract: From the informational perspective, cyclicity is the most powerful factor of order and predictability (negentropy) of form, while the vector focus serves as the major and immediate bearer of new information. This paper aims to systematize the main types of cyclic recurrence in musical forms within the European tradition. Among the objectives is to elucidate the meaning capacity of the named forms. Although the paper uses the term “cyclic recurrence” instead of “cyclicity”, in the French tradition of form analysis, represented primarily by Vincent d’Indy, cyclicity refers to recurrence (a cyclical theme is a recurrent theme) [see: Rovenko, 2021].
Keywords: cyclicity, narrative, vector striving, Richard Wagner, myths, the European music of XIX-XX centuries, information
References:
Rovenko, E.V. (2021) Translatory Symmetry as a Constructive Basis of the “Cyclic Principle” in Music and Architecture in Interpretation of Vincent D’Indy. Symmetry: Culture and Science, 32 (volume), 2 (issue), 257-260. https://doi.org/10.26830/symmetry_2021_2_257.
Wölfflin, H. (2002) Osnovnyye ponyatiya istorii iskusstv. [The main concepts of the history of arts. [transl. by A. Frankovsky]. St.-Petersburg: Lan’, 244 pp.
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