The Thematic Process in Music

Réti, R. (1951). The Thematic Process in Music.

Type

Journal article

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Primary research

Year

1951

Link

https://archive.org/details/thematicprocessi0000reti

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art_aesthetics

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• Motif
  • Music: melodic and rhythmic motifs (the Beethoven Fifth's four-note motif, Wagner's leitmotiv as character reference) varied by transposition, inversion, retrograde, augmentation, and fragmentation.

    This sourceAnalysis of motivic transformation — transposition, inversion, retrograde, augmentation, fragmentation — by which a small recurring melodic cell binds a work and accretes significance (e.g., the Beethoven Fifth four-note motif).

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