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Late works of Morton Feldman
Zvěřina, Petr ; TICHÝ, Vladimír (advisor) ; Šťastný, Jaroslav (referee)
In my dissertation, I’m trying to establish a theoretical model for better understanding of processes that occur in Morton Feldman’s late works (e.g. Piano and String Quartet, For Bunita Marcus etc.). These compositions are extremely long and not climax-oriented, we can observe „repetition“ of limited amount of musical material, there is no „general“ compositional system, musical sections can be freely interchanged or combined, acoustical qualities of tone material are emphasized. These attributes are interconnected, they are creating a specific type of „musical assemblage“ that I define as rhizomatic form (in reference to Deleuzo-Guattarian concept of the rhizome). First of all, I’m elaborating Feldman’s own texts and current studies about his music. Subsequently, I’m discussing Feldman’s compositional procedures in the context of post-war musical avantgard (The New York School, Anton Webern, Pierre Boulez and Karlheinz Stockhausen, musique informelle). Main part of my dissertation is dedicated to rhizomatic form; before the discussion of this term, I’m focusing on related topics: compositional and acoustic reality, difference and repetition, speed and intensity. I’m constantly trying to confront my findings with Feldman’s early works (e.g. Intermission 5 and 6). I’m also comparing composer’s overall attitude towards musical structure with methods and techniques of abstract expressionists (e.g. Mark Rothko, Jackson Pollock) and novelists like Samuel Beckett and Franz Kafka. Following the concept of rhizomatic form, I’m trying to analyze Feldman’s composition Patterns in a Chromatic Field for violoncello and piano.
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