Music Listening, Music Therapy, Phenomenology and Neuroscience

The Musical Timespace

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1'47 Events and movements; the clarinet reappears. 2' 01 New event;

The timbre of flute attracts attention. 2'10 the oboe attracts attention.

2'27 Soloists disappear, background reappears.

2'52 Movement time: Clarinet, flute, oboe and a violin are linked in a

slow-moving melody.

3'14 Pulse time emerges discreetly in piano rhythms.

3'30 Background reappears.

4'02 Movement time: Slow clarinet melody and quiet piano appear, conti-

nued by clearly forward-directed movement in clarinet at 4'18, leading to

4'22 Salient pulse time in ragged piano rhythms, competing with

several layers of movement.

4'40 Pulse time is reintroduced by high clarinet with piano pulse, on a

dense background of movements. New pulses are introduced, 4'54

trombone, 4'58 drums, 5'05 flutes, 5'07 trumpet, and a chaos of compe-

ting pulses and movements increases, accelerating to a climax at 5'20.

5'25 The strings, largely drowned out and forgotten, reappear. After

the preceding chaos, they seem to adopt the quality of an ever-present

natural background sound, and movement time gives way to the time

of being.

6'02 and 6'22 The slow movement time of clarinet, flute and violin is

now nearly absorbed in the background time of being which continues

in a standstill on the first chord of the string cycle.