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Slovenská hudba, Vol. 39, No 2, p.119-153

Title: Teória harmónie Miroslava Filipa
Author: Markéta Štefková
Abstract: In his work Vývinové zákonitosti klasickej harmónie (Developmental Principles of Classical Harmony) from 1965 Slovak music theoretician Miroslav Filip (1932–1973) presented his original theory on harmony. This theory is standardly utilized in Slovakia as an introduction to the issue, however, his work has been published only in Slovak language and it is almost unknown abroad. Indeed, by means of this theory the essence of harmony can be explained not only from the aspect of a particular historical period, but generally, contrary to all concepts known so far to the author of the contribution. Filip perceives harmony as a dialectically contradictory unity of horizontal and vertical components, horizontal being the primary one and vertical the secondary one. Using the scientific, that is mathematical principles, he presents the exact theory of the harmony development on the basis of three laws, recurring periodically on an ever higher hierarchical level, or evolutionary spiral. After the explanation of the fundaments of Filip’s hypotheses, persuasively clarified by several dozens of examples mostly from the period of Classicism, several selected aspects are explicated by the author of the contribution through analytical and theoretical examinations confronted with current Western musicology. She points to the aesthetic expressive potency of the devices used by Filip, as well as to the prospects of the systematic use of the methodology outlined by Filip for the analysis of music of the 19th and 20th centuries.
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Year: 2013, Volume: 39, Issue: 2 Page From: 119, Page To: 153


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