Risposta |

The risk (Italian risposta – answer, objection; German Antwort) – imitating voice (accepted abbreviation – R). Usually R. called. imitating voice in canon (including in strettas of fugues), less often in simple (non-canonical) imitation; the term “R.” in the meaning of “answer in fugue” in modern. lit-re is of little use. All the usual characteristics of imitation (interval, distance, direction of entry) apply to R. In R., all methods of converting polyphonic can be used. themes (reversal, magnification, etc.); in 20th century music (in particular, in music written with the use of serial technique), the role of more complex transformations in rhythm increases, associated with a change in the interval and rhythmic structure of the proposta (see, for example, ricercars from I. F. Stravinsky’s cantata to anonymous texts from English . poetry).

V. P. Frayonov