Henri Dutilleux In the Context of Post-Tonal Creative Issues: Between Freedom and Control

2017 Fiscal Year Final Research Report

• Project/Area Number: 15K02120
• Research Category: Grant-in-Aid for Scientific Research (C)
• Allocation Type: Multi-year Fund
• Section: 一般
• Research Field: Aesthetics and studies on art
• Research Institution: Tokyo College of Music
• Principal Investigator: Fujita Shigeru 東京音楽大学, 音楽学部, 准教授 (30466974)
• Project Period (FY): 2015-04-01 – 2018-03-31
• Keywords: デュティユー / セリアリスム / スケッチ研究 / 自費譜 / 20世紀音楽 / 音楽理論 / 音楽分析

Outline of Final Research Achievements

Going back and forth between sketch studies and theoretical examinations of Dutilleux’s five orchestral works, I obtained three major results that have the potential to modify the composer’s former public image as an independent musician: (1) Dutilleux engaged in the Serialist movement more seriously than hitherto believed; (2) Dutilleux’s dialectics of control and freedom in the composition were manifested most apparently in his idiosyncratic use of the twelve-tone row as a matrix from which can be generated various pitch structures; (3) Dutilleux developed progressively his dodecaphonism through the above-mentioned five works. After some trials in Second symphony, he invented his proper method of using the twelve-tone row flexibly in Metaboles and in Tout un monde lointain, and he arrived at a new form of free writing in Timbre, Espace, Mouvement, Mystere de l’instant.

Free Research Field

音楽学