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Abstrakt:
Utopian concepts have entered European thought since the Renaissance. In music, the first futurist composer was perhaps Claudio Monteverdi. He abandoned the traditional architectural devices in favour of free structures inspired by the expressive components of texts. The subject of Monteverdi’s first opera, Orpheus, is connected with the lyre, an instrument produc¬ing short, ephemeral sounds. Since the Renaissance, there has been in music a constant fight between architectural forces and the attacks of transience, symbolized by the blowing of the wind. Modern music tends to succumb to ephemerali¬ty. This connects composers otherwise so different from each other as John Cage and Brian Ferneyhough. The city of Utopia is in danger to be destroyed by the wind. The composer of future times may well not be a citizen, but a nomad.

Citace:
Albert Breier. Wind Blowing Through Utopia: Form and Impermanence in New Music. Živá hudba 2015/6. On-line <https://ziva-hudba.info/wind-blowing-through-utopia-form-and-impermanence-in-new-music/> [19. 8. 2025].
Kopírovat Albert Breier. Wind Blowing Through Utopia: Form and Impermanence in New Music. Živá hudba 2015/6. On-line <https://ziva-hudba.info/wind-blowing-through-utopia-form-and-impermanence-in-new-music/> [19. 8. 2025].