Curtness and terseness are [...] the prime characteristics of Bofkovec's music, full of pulsing power and
elementarity. [...] The polyphonic nature of the work leads to the voice often being treated instrumentally." The first performance of Start, Bofkovec's second sport piece, was given in Prague on the 26th of March 1930 (H.
The elements are always already supplements:
elementarity is an elemental supplementarity.
It is precisely the roughness and
elementarity that allows these relics of popular cerimonial magic to reveal to our analysis the structural and functional character of that magic moment which--no matter how subtle or sublimated it may be--is still found in contemporary Catholicism, particularly in its uniquely Southern forms").
Wallace, "
Elementarity and Reality in Particle Physics," in From a Realist Point of View: Essays on the Philosophy of Science, 2d ed.