unendliche Melodie (English spelling) unendliche Melodie

...Methods of pure musical order include contrast, repetition, variation, and development of motives and patterns. In Western classical music, regular segmentation of melodies was preferred, but in the Romantic period, irregular structures became more common, and some, such as R. Wagner, advocated an infinite melody that consciously avoided repetition and segmentation. Just as the 19th century music aesthetician E. Hanslick called melody the "basic form of musical beauty," in modern Western music, melodic ingenuity is considered the most obvious proof of genius, and the talent for melodic creation is considered a gift given by God that is difficult to explain rationally.

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…純音楽的な秩序づけの方法には，動機や音型の対照･反復･変奏･発展などが挙げられる。西洋の古典派音楽では旋律の規則的な分節性が好まれたが，ロマン派になるとむしろ不規則な構造が多くなり，R.ワーグナーのように反復や分節を意識的に避けた無限旋律unendliche Melodieを主張する者もいた。　19世紀の音楽美学者E.ハンスリックが旋律を〈音楽美の基本形態〉と称したように，近代の西洋音楽では旋律的創意が天才の最も顕著な証しと考えられ，旋律創造の才能は合理的説明が困難な天与の才とされた。…

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