Abrupt (music)
The abruptio (Latin for rupture) is a musical-rhetorical figure that expresses the sudden breakdown of a musical thought or affect. The abrupt usually occurs at the end of a composition and closes a musical period with an unexpected and sudden end.
The Abruptio is one of the “stylus-theatralis” figures, the main purpose of which is to express affect .
In the rhetoric there is no figure that corresponds to the abortion accurately. However, the resemblance to the rhetorical figure of aposiopesis is often pointed out, which does not denote the sudden break, but the silence that follows .
The expression of affect in the two figures is therefore very similar.
Sources and literature (chronological)
- Christoph Bernhard: Tractatus compositionis augmentatus . Ms. ( online edition Bernhard Lang) .
- Johann Gottfried Walther: Musical Lexicon. Deer, Leipzig 1732 ( digitized version ).
- Dietrich Bartel: Handbook of musical figure theory Laaber-Verlag, Laaber 1985, ISBN 3-89007-340-9 .
Individual evidence
- ↑ See Bartel 1985, pp. 78 and 106.