The Parameters of Time and Expression of Music

Retention, protention and intention in musical expression. St Augustine’s perception of the parameters of time (music as the science of good movement) (scientia bene movendi): the manifestation in sound of time felt internally. Musical events: a transition from one contextual situation to another (A. Benditskiy, M. Aranovskiy). Rejection of the static approach to time in favour of the real flow of time (V. Sesemann). The goal of musical expression is to give intonational—temporal—movement to the form of a work. Musical time is the movement of sound structures dictated by the spirit of the work understood by the interpreter.