ABSTRACT
Penderecki has forsworn these means in favor of the inherent force of sensory materials. It is conceivable that such a choice might prove reasonable as a general procedure, although the materials themselves would need more inner detail. They would need, that is, to accommodate continual search of their ongoing microstructure and reward moment-to-moment switches in attentiveness. The composite profile of the succession itself would have to be less elementally predictable. It is, perhaps, analogous, to individual oratorical skill: a continuous flow of imagery, of allusion and illusion commanding and variegated enough to engage continuously a public of diverse backgrounds. Penderecki’s work is related to our earlier discussion of art that operates below the level of culturally established-and, therefore, to some degree relative-norms for values and response.
