Microtonality in the post-spectralist context microintervalics in the compositions of Gabrielius Simas Sapiega and Mārtiņš Viļums

ENThe research focus of the chapter by Simas Sapiega is the conversion of microintervalics in the music of the second half of the twentieth through the early twenty-first century. The manifestations of the new microintervalics that began to form in avant-garde music stimulated changes in the principles of composition, transformed the established idioms of music, and reconstructed the relationship between the composer and the composition. When looking through the prism of the theory of music and seeking to detail different strategies of compositional techniques employing microintervals, the taxonomic categories of transference, syncretism, and synthesis (cf. Yayoi Uno Everett 2004) are used. Moreover, the place of microchromatics in the composer's reflective consciousness is brought to the foreground as a network of communicative relationships of historical and theoretical heritage. The final and comprehensively consolidating circle of microprocess conversion reveals the compositions affected by the transformation aspect as the most radical oppositions not only in terms of the strategies of the use of microintervals but also of the notional meanings of functionality. To disclose the transformation of microsystems into the ultimate completion of conversion, different compositions by Simas Sapiega and Mārtiņš Viļums are analyzed using philosophical-aesthetic insights and the methods of analysis adapted to microchromatics. [From the publication p. 324]