Abstract Music

Abstraction in music implies a separation of sonic structures from representational images, whether pictorial or psychological. Abstract music is the antonym of all musical styles that are concrete or naturalistic; abstract works are usually short, athematic, and rhythmically asymmetric. Intellectual fantasy, rather than sensual excitation, is the generating impulse of abstract music ; its titles are derived from constructivistic and scientific concepts: Structures, Projections, Extensions,...