Kompositorische Sprachübertragung in zeitgenössischer Instrumentalmusik

The relationship between music and language, which is engraved in the history of European art music as a particularly close and powerful one, has always evolved in the interplay of productive-artistic phenomena and receptive-theoretical paradigms. As a novel approach that can no longer be adequately described by established categories, a compositional reference to language can increasingly be observed in contemporary music that does not follow any conventional reference scheme, but instead potentially takes very different linguistic aspects as a model in order to transform them into musical contexts in an intermedial transfer. The present study attempts to deal with this specific approach to language by adapting a concept of transference, which has long been discussed in media and art studies, for the purposes of music appreciation and testing it in comparative individual analyses of eight instrumental compositions, mainly from the last 30 years. The aim is to identify the transfer of language as a strategy of contemporary composing that transcends styles and authors, whose specific procedural logic can be expressed in very different compositional results and which thus continues the music-historical relationship between language and music in many different ways.

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