ABSTRACT
This chapter focuses on attunemental duration which consists of an auscultation of exemplary musical moments, salient events in the temporal structure of a certain piece. It elucidates the relation between simple musical material and short duration, at times corresponding to, at times deviating from each other. Minimalistic music and the minimal music of miniatures the former represented by La Monte Young and Terry Riley, the latter by Anton Webern and Gyrgy Kurtg seem to be total contrasts; but as regards attunement they can be different instances of monotony' in the sense of music emerging in one tone'. In his Trio-1958 for Strings, Young combined compositional techniques derived from Webern with extended duration. Young found, little static sections in the Bagatelles, but these sections are only momentary, with durations of one or two bars. The chapter discusses questions concerning duration and attunement, that of the multi-movement work and of plurality with Webern's Bagatelles and Kurtg's Microludes.
