The technical characteristic of mirror structure written in the Invention of Bach is a basic one of Contrapuntal melody for the imitation with the firm foundation of tonal system.
The mirror sttucture that Bach employed in his Invention not only hav...
The technical characteristic of mirror structure written in the Invention of Bach is a basic one of Contrapuntal melody for the imitation with the firm foundation of tonal system.
The mirror sttucture that Bach employed in his Invention not only have repetition and inversion technique that we can see in other imitational worke but also was emp-loyed in order to express a structural elebolation.
On the other hand, Bartok also had created the technique of mirror structure for himself and used it in his Mikrocomos but its characteristics are a model system with Bartok's unique melody and an order of the systematic and geometrical materials in his chromatically musical idea.
This order also can be found in his many works that the function of tonic was broken and in the structural progression having three Axis systems as tonic axis, sub- dominant axis and Dominant axis.
But in this Mikrocosmos that was composed for the beginers who to learn the piano, Bartok emphasized generally a normal form of mirror structure in the first half of the Mikrocosmos while, he used partially it in the latter half of it sublimated by him to the artistic work with his musical idea of depth.
As abovementioned, the mirror structure used by two composers, Bach and Bartok, is one of imitational techniques that western composers has employed in their contra- puntal music.
But in the statement it carries heavy weight in the matter that even in the great interval of two hundred years Braoque style was succeeded to the contemporary music today.
In conclusion I should like to say that this paper would be useful to those who want to study the course of the contemporary music and go after the traditional music.