Abstract

The term “intra-musical communication” can refer to relationships and references between compositions, or, in other words, to the communication between composers through their own works. Thus, the term can designate what in the context of structuralism is described as “intertextuality”. The term can also refer to the relations between musical parameters. In this sense, i.e. in terms of the interaction between parameters, Schönberg´s twelve-tone technique will be discussed in the light of the concept of “intra-musical communication”. The European music has established, at least since the period of the “Viennese Classicism”, a network of relationships between melody, harmony, periodicity and morphogenesis that was designed, developed and perceived as “coherence”. Schönberg also appealed explicitly to this tradition, although with his method the network lost its coherence.

Keywords: intra-musical communication, parameters, dodecaphony, coherence.

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