Disenvelopment
noun ·Rare ·Advanced level
Definitions
- 1 The act of disenveloping.
"If, therefore, musical language seems to break up and even disperse into always more parceled forms, it is because the analysis truly becomes creative, just as variation is no longer a procedure for developing a theme it would be a matter of enriching, but a principle of disenvelopment through which the totality already virtually present in the choice and in the preparatory work of the series becomes free of itself by giving itself over to a veritably torturing questions -- a question that, through the obstinate return of the identical, as again Adorno makes clear, seeks to engender an unceasing renewal."
Example
More examples"If, therefore, musical language seems to break up and even disperse into always more parceled forms, it is because the analysis truly becomes creative, just as variation is no longer a procedure for developing a theme it would be a matter of enriching, but a principle of disenvelopment through which the totality already virtually present in the choice and in the preparatory work of the series becomes free of itself by giving itself over to a veritably torturing questions -- a question that, through the obstinate return of the identical, as again Adorno makes clear, seeks to engender an unceasing renewal."
Etymology
From disenvelop + -ment.
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