Fragmentation (music)

In music composition, fragmentation is the use of fragments or the "division of a musical idea (gesture, motive, theme, etc.) into segments." It is used in tonal and atonal music, and is a common method of localized development and closure.

Fragmentation is related to Arnold Schoenberg's concept of liquidation,^[1] a common compositional technique that describes the reduction of a large-scale musical idea to its essential form (such as a contour line, a specific harmonic motion, or the like).^[2] Liquidation informs much thematically-driven music, such as that by Béla Bartók^[3], Stravinsky, and Schoenberg himself. It is important to understand that, though they are related, fragmentation and liquidation are separate processes and concepts.

Further reading

• Caplin, William. Classical Form: A Theory of Formal Functions, p. 10-11.

References

1. ^ Schoenberg, Arnold. Fundamentals of Musical Composition. London, 1967. p. 58.
2. ^ After Michael Friedmann, course lectures and materials for MUSI 305: Analysis and Composition of Twentieth Century Music, Yale College, Yale University, fall 2008.
3. ^ Stein, Deborah. Engaging Music: Essays in Music Analysis, "Introduction to Musical Ambiguity". New York: Oxford University Press, 2005. ISBN 0-19-517010-5. p. 87.

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