DO ESPA O E TEMPO MUSICAL – TEORIA CIENTíFICA E PRáTICA | Musical time and space - scientific theory and artistic practice in postwar avant-garde

The early 20th century has witnessed major transformations in both scientific and musicaldomains. In particular, relativity has shown space and time to have physical reality (incontrast to a priori conditions of objects), and the hierarchical structure of tonality wasabandoned in favor of progressively more systematic methods of composition evolvingfrom twelve-tone music. By singling out the migration of the scientific understanding ofspace and time to musical terrain, as legitimization and metaphor for some theoreticalproposals of integral serialism, a parallel is drawn between the two fields which shows theentwinement of scientific output and artistic theory and practice in post-war avant-garde.