Openwork style

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The openwork style , also called openwork work or openwork instrumentation , is a compositional technique that is used primarily in symphonic music and was particularly popular during the Viennese classicism . Openwork style essentially means that individual instruments or groups of instruments in the orchestra become detached while a melody line is being represented . Changing the instrumentation creates a new timbre, but the melody as a whole is retained.

The term was originally used in relation to a design technique of chasing and ornamentation in Gothic architecture. In a musical context, it was first used in somewhat different ways by the musicologists Hugo Riemann and Guido Adler at the beginning of the 20th century .

literature

  • Andreas Eichhorn: Openwork work. In: Concise dictionary of musical terminology. Steiner, Stuttgart 1972 ff. 34. Delivery 2002/03, spk-berlin.de (PDF; 32 kB).

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Werner Braun: The music of the 17th century (=  New Handbook of Musicology . Volume 4 ). Athenaion, 1981, ISBN 3-7997-0746-8 , pp. 247 ( limited preview in Google Book search).
  2. ^ Hugo Riemann: History of Music since Beethoven (1800-1900) . Spemann, Stuttgart 1901, p. 69 ff . ( Text archive - Internet Archive ).
  3. ^ Hugo Riemann: Handbuch der Musikgeschichte . 2nd volume, 3rd part. Breitkopf & Härtel, Leipzig 1913, p. 175 ff . ( Text archive - Internet Archive ).
  4. ^ Hugo Riemann: Music Lexicon . 9th edition. Hesse, Berlin 1919, p. 287 ( us.archive.org [PDF; 204.0 MB ]).
  5. ↑ Guido Adler: The style in music . 1st book. Breitkopf & Härtel, Leipzig 1911, p. 268 ff . ( Text archive - Internet Archive ).
  6. ↑ Guido Adler: Handbuch der Musikgeschichte . 2nd Edition. tape 2 . Berlin 1930, p. 790 ( limited preview in Google Book search).