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reaching toward preromantic past as well as toward Non-Western ideals, the
semantic potentials and variables of reception of Rojko’s music. Yet one of the
specific comments of his music – in this case regarding his opera King Da-
vid, Cither and the Sward – reads: »His composition is, as excitingly modern
as it is, at the same time deeply rooted in archetypal patterns and figures«.22 In
this perspective the sublime reveals itself as a net of basic yet distinct experi-
ential phenomena with somewhat puzzling nominal embedding: toward cer-
tain new experience or toward an age-old ideal of musica perennis? At least,
the composer tends toward such a position.

22 König David, Zither und Schwert. Theater im Marienbad, 2010–2014, http://www.marienbad.org/re-
pertoire/antigone (20. 4. 2014).

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