Music Department Faculty Research Series SECOND LECTURE:
Chord Relationships:
a structural harmonic organization system in a non-tonal context
Presenter: Dr. Georges Dimitrov, Assistant Professor, Coordinator of Integrative Music Studies, Music, Concordia
When: Thursday, November 17 at 5:45 p.m.
Where: MB-8.255
The composer of instrumental music inevitably finds himself, in the act of writing, faced with the problem of pitch organization, a key element of musical structure in the Western practice. Following in the footsteps of many composers and theorists of the twentieth century, the research presented here tries to elaborate a harmonic system which possesses a syntactic structure in a non tonal environment, based on the importance of patterns for music perception and for establishment of hierarchical relationships essential to musical organization.
The development of this system - based on the linking of groups of chords in an attempt to constitute significant structural units - was carried out as part of a research-creation compositional approach, and included a reflection on the relationship between the composer and his composition system, relationship approached from the point of view of semiology through the concept of tripartition proposed by Nattiez and Molino.
