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MOTIVES FOR MUSIC: LONDON, MAY 2018

2018; UNIVERSIDADE FEDERAL FLUMINENSE; Volume: 73; Issue: 287 Linguagem: Inglês

10.1017/s0040298218000591

1980-542X

Arnold Whittall,

Diverse Musicological Studies

Abstract ‘Motive’ or ‘motif’ has long been a familiar term in writing about music, not least because many writers enjoy the word-play available when a composer's possible motivation for inventing and elaborating specific motivic materials is under discussion. The extent to which motives reach beyond melody into harmony has arguably become a more conscious concern of composers who have moved beyond traditional tonality, and some of the consequences of such concerns are considered here, in relation to recent works by two leading British composers, George Benjamin (b. 1960) and his one-time student Christian Mason (b. 1984).