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Critical Perspectives on Michael Finnissy

Author : Ian Pace
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 135103152X
Total Pages : 425 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (51 download)

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Download or read book Critical Perspectives on Michael Finnissy written by Ian Pace and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2019-05-24 with total page 425 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The composer and pianist Michael Finnissy (b. 1946) is an unmistakeable presence in the British and international new music scene, both for his immeasurable generosity as prolific composer for many different types of musicians, major advocate for the works of others, and performer and conductor who has also been a driving force behind ensembles; he was also President of the International Society for Contemporary Music from 1990 to 1996. His vast and enormously varied output confounds those who seek easy categorisations: once associated strongly with the ‘new complexity’, Finnissy is equally known as composer regularly engaged with many different folk musics, for working with amateur and community musicians, for a long-term engagement with sacred music, or as an advocate of Anglo-American ‘experimental’ music. Twenty years ago, a large-scale volume entitled Uncommon Ground: The Music of Michael Finnissy gave the first major overview of the output of any ‘complex’ composer. This new volume brings a greater plurality of perspectives and critical sensibility to bear upon an output which is almost twice as large as it was when the earlier book was published. A range of leading contributors – musicologists, composers, performers and others – each grapple with particular questions relating to Finnissy’s music, often in ways which raise questions relating more widely to new music, and provide theoretical foundations for further of study both of Finnissy and other composers.

Rethinking Brahms

Author : Nicole Grimes
Publisher : Oxford University Press
ISBN 13 : 0197541739
Total Pages : 585 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (975 download)

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Download or read book Rethinking Brahms written by Nicole Grimes and published by Oxford University Press. This book was released on 2022 with total page 585 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: As one of the most significant and widely performed composers of the nineteenth century, Brahms continues to command our attention. Rethinking Brahms counterbalances prevailing scholarly assumptions that position him as a conservative composer (whether musically or politically) with a wide-ranging exploration and re-evaluation of his significance today. Drawing on German- and English-language scholarship, it deploys original approaches to his music and pursues innovative methodologies to interrogate the historical, cultural, and artistic contexts of his creativity. Empowered by recent theoretical work on form and tonality, it offers fresh analytical insights into his music, including a number of corpus studies that interrogate the relationships between Brahms and other composers, past and present. The book brings into sharp focus the productive tension that exists between the perceived fixedness of musical texts and the ephemerality of performance by considering how historical and modern performers shape established understandings of Brahms and his music. Rethinking Brahms invites the reader to hear familiar pieces anew as they are refracted through historical, artistic, and philosophical prisms. Bringing us up to the present day, it also gives sustained attention to the resounding impact of Brahms's compositions on new music by exploring works by recent composers who have engaged deeply with his oeuvre. Combining awareness of overarching contexts with perceptive insights into Brahms's music, this book enlivens our understanding of Brahms, providing a dynamic, multifaceted, complex, and invigoratingly fresh portrait of the composer.

The Routledge Companion to Applied Musicology

Author : Chris Dromey
Publisher : Taylor & Francis
ISBN 13 : 1000896889
Total Pages : 547 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (8 download)

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Download or read book The Routledge Companion to Applied Musicology written by Chris Dromey and published by Taylor & Francis. This book was released on 2023-09-19 with total page 547 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Routledge Companion to Applied Musicology brings together academics, artist-researchers, and practitioners to provide readers with an extensive and authoritative overview of applied musicology. Once a field that addressed music’s socio-political or performative contexts, applied musicology today encompasses study and practice in areas as diverse as psychology, ecomusicology, organology, forensic musicology, music therapy, health and well-being, and other public-oriented musicologies. These rapid advances have created a fast-changing field whose scholarship and activities tend to take place in isolation from each other. This volume addresses that shortcoming, bringing together a wide-ranging survey of current approaches. Featuring 39 authors, The Routledge Companion to Applied Musicology falls into five parts—Defining and Theorising Applied Musicology; Public Engagement; New Approaches and Research Methods; Representation and Inclusion; and Musicology in/for Performance—that chronicle the subject’s rich history and consider the connections that will characterise its future. The book offers an essential resource for anyone exploring applied musicology.

Researching and Writing on Contemporary Art and Artists

Author : Christopher Wiley
Publisher : Springer Nature
ISBN 13 : 3030392333
Total Pages : 285 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (33 download)

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Download or read book Researching and Writing on Contemporary Art and Artists written by Christopher Wiley and published by Springer Nature. This book was released on 2020-06-27 with total page 285 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Researching and writing about contemporary art and artists present unique challenges for scholars, students, professional critics and creative practitioners alike. This collection of essays from across the arts disciplines—music, literature, dance, theatre and the visual arts—explores the challenges and complexities raised by engaging in researching and writing on living or recently deceased subjects and their output. Different sections explore critical perspectives and case studies in relation to innovative, distinctive or otherwise leading work, as well as offering innovative modes of discourse such as a visual essay and a music composition. Subjects addressed include recent scandals of Canadian literary celebrity, late-career output, the written element of music composition PhDs, and the boundaries between ethnography and hagiography, with case studies ranging from Howard Barker to Adrian Piper to Sylvie Guillem and Misty Copeland.

The Oxford Handbook of Music Performance, Volume 1

Author : Gary McPherson
Publisher : Oxford University Press
ISBN 13 : 0190056304
Total Pages : 737 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (9 download)

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Download or read book The Oxford Handbook of Music Performance, Volume 1 written by Gary McPherson and published by Oxford University Press. This book was released on 2021-12-24 with total page 737 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The two-volume Oxford Handbook of Music Performance provides a resource that musicians, scholars and educators will use as the most important and authoritative overview of work within the areas of music psychology and performance science. The 80 experts from 13 countries who prepared the 53 chapters in this handbook are leaders in the fields of music psychology, performance science, musicology, psychology, education and music education. Chapters in the Handbook provide a broad coverage of the area with considerable expansion of the topics that are normally covered in a resource of this type. Designed around eight distinct sections - Development and Learning, Proficiencies, Performance Practices, Psychology, Enhancements, Health & Wellbeing, Science, and Innovations - the range and scope of The Oxford Handbook of Music Performance is much wider than other publications through the inclusion of chapters from related disciplines such as performance science (e.g., optimizing performance, mental techniques, talent development in non-music areas), and education (e.g., human development, motivation, learning and teaching styles) as well as the attention given to emerging critical issues in the field (e.g., wellbeing, technology, gender, diversity, inclusion, identity, resilience and buoyancy, diseases, and physical and mental disabilities). Within each chapter, authors have selected what they consider to be the most important scientific and artistic material relevant to their topic. They begin their chapters by surveying theoretical views on each topic and then, in the final part of the chapter, highlight practical implications of the literature that performers will be able to apply within their daily musical lives.

The Oxford Handbook of Music Performance, Volume 1

Author : Gary McPherson
Publisher : Oxford University Press
ISBN 13 : 0190056282
Total Pages : 737 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (9 download)

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Download or read book The Oxford Handbook of Music Performance, Volume 1 written by Gary McPherson and published by Oxford University Press. This book was released on 2022-01-18 with total page 737 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The two-volume 'Oxford Handbook of Music Performance' provides the most comprehensive and authoritative resource for musicians, educators and scholars currently available. It is aimed primarily for practicing musicians, particularly those who are preparing for a professional career as performers and are interested in practical implications of psychological and scientific research for their own music performance development; educators with a specific interest or expertise in music psychology, who will wish to apply the concepts and techniques surveyed in their own teaching; undergraduate and postgraduate students who understand the potential of music psychology for informing music education; and researchers in the area of music performance who consider it important for the results of their research to be practically useful for musicians and music educators.

A Musicology for Landscape

Author : David Nicholas Buck
Publisher : Taylor & Francis
ISBN 13 : 1351804960
Total Pages : 215 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (518 download)

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Download or read book A Musicology for Landscape written by David Nicholas Buck and published by Taylor & Francis. This book was released on 2017-05-12 with total page 215 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Drawing conceptually and directly on music notation, this book investigates landscape architecture’s inherent temporality. It argues that the rich history of notating time in music provides a critical model for this under-researched and under-theorised aspect of landscape architecture, while also ennobling sound in the sensory appreciation of landscape. A Musicology for Landscape makes available to a wider landscape architecture and urban design audience the works of three influential composers – Morton Feldman, György Ligeti and Michael Finnissy – presenting a critical evaluation of their work within music, as well as a means in which it might be used in design research. Each of the musical scores is juxtaposed with design representations by Kevin Appleyard, Bernard Tschumi and William Kent, before the author examines four landscape spaces through the development of new landscape architectural notations. In doing so, this work offers valuable insights into the methods used by landscape architects for the benefit of musicians, and by bringing together musical composition and landscape architecture through notation, it affords a focused and sensitive exploration of temporality and sound in both fields.

The Chamber Musician in the Twenty-First Century

Author : Mine Doğantan-DacK
Publisher : MDPI
ISBN 13 : 3038975621
Total Pages : 334 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (389 download)

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Download or read book The Chamber Musician in the Twenty-First Century written by Mine Doğantan-DacK and published by MDPI. This book was released on 2022-07-07 with total page 334 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In recent research, there has been growing emphasis on the collaborative, social, and collective nature of musical behaviour and practices. Among the emerging hypotheses in this connection are the idea that listening to music is always listening together and being with the other; that music making is a matter of intercorporeality, mutuality, and emphatic attunement; and that creative agency in musical practices is fundamentally a distributed phenomenon. Chamber music provides an ideal context for the testing and actualization of these notions. This Special Issue on chamber music and the chamber musician aims to explore the psychological, social, cultural, historical, and artistic issues in the practice of classical chamber music in the twenty-first century. Contributions are invited on any of these aspects and issues involved in being a contemporary classical chamber musician. Authors are encouraged to contextualise their research by reference to the recent literature on collaborative musicking, and among the topics they may choose to address are the cultural and musical demands chamber musicians face and the implications of these demands for their artistic practice, the ways the twenty-first-century chamber musicians engage with historical practices, the newly emerging musical identities and artistic roles available to them, and expressivity in current chamber music practices.

Experimental Music

Author : Michael Nyman
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
ISBN 13 : 9780521653831
Total Pages : 218 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (538 download)

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Download or read book Experimental Music written by Michael Nyman and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 1999-07-29 with total page 218 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Composer Michael Nyman's classic 1974 account of the postwar experimental tradition in music.

Transformations of Musical Modernism

Author : Erling E. Guldbrandsen
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
ISBN 13 : 1107127211
Total Pages : 369 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (71 download)

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Book Synopsis Transformations of Musical Modernism by : Erling E. Guldbrandsen

Download or read book Transformations of Musical Modernism written by Erling E. Guldbrandsen and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 2015-10-26 with total page 369 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This collection brings fresh perspectives to bear upon key questions surrounding the composition, performance and reception of musical modernism.

Sonic Mosaics

Author : Paul Steenhuisen
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 352 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (91 download)

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Download or read book Sonic Mosaics written by Paul Steenhuisen and published by . This book was released on 2009-01-07 with total page 352 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Paul Steenhuisen, in conversation with composers, offers readers insight into the creative process, and ways of listening and entering into works of new music. Steenhuisen, himself a composer of merit, talks one on one with thirty-two of his contemporaries--twenty-six of whom are Canadian--with a colleague's candour, sympathy, and expertise.

The Cambridge Companion to the Concerto

Author : Simon P. Keefe
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
ISBN 13 : 9780521834834
Total Pages : 344 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (348 download)

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Download or read book The Cambridge Companion to the Concerto written by Simon P. Keefe and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 2005-10-27 with total page 344 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A rare volume dedicated entirely to scholarship on the genre of the concerto.

Uncommon Ground

Author : Henrietta Brougham
Publisher : Ashgate Publishing
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 454 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (91 download)

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Download or read book Uncommon Ground written by Henrietta Brougham and published by Ashgate Publishing. This book was released on 1997 with total page 454 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This is the first book devoted to the study of the music of Michael Finnissy (b.1946), widely regarded as one of the most important British composers of his generation. The remarkable diversity of Finnissy's music is explored in a series of essays, lavishly illustrated with music examples, which cover each area of his work. The book also includes a lengthy interview with the composer. A comprehensive catalogue of Finnissy's output completes the survey.

Aural Diversity

Author : John L. Drever
Publisher : Taylor & Francis
ISBN 13 : 1000581055
Total Pages : 295 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (5 download)

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Download or read book Aural Diversity written by John L. Drever and published by Taylor & Francis. This book was released on 2022-09-23 with total page 295 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Aural Diversity addresses a fundamental methodological challenge in music and soundscape research by considering the nature of hearing as a spectrum of diverse experiences. Bringing together an interdisciplinary array of contributors from the arts, humanities, and sciences, it challenges the idea of a normative listening experience and envisions how awareness of aural diversity can transform sonic arts, environments, and design and generate new creative listening practices. With contributors from a wide range of fields including sound studies, music, hearing sciences, disability studies, acoustics, media studies, and psychology, Aural Diversity introduces a new and much-needed paradigm that is relevant to scholars, students, and practitioners engaging with sound, music, and hearing across disciplines.

Perspectives on Artistic Research in Music

Author : Robert Burke
Publisher : Lexington Books
ISBN 13 : 1498544827
Total Pages : 244 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (985 download)

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Download or read book Perspectives on Artistic Research in Music written by Robert Burke and published by Lexington Books. This book was released on 2017-01-23 with total page 244 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The increasing interest in artistic research, especially in music, is throwing open doors to exciting ideas about how we generate new musical knowledge and understanding. This book examines the wide array of factors at play in innovative practice and how by treating it as research we can make new ideas more widely accessible. Three key ideas propel the book. First, it argues that artistic research comes from inside the practice and exists in a space that accommodates both objective and subjective observation and analyses because the researcher is the practitioner. It is a space for dialogue between apparently opposing binaries: the composer and the performer, the past and the present, the fixed and the fluid, the intellectual and the intuitive, the abstract and the embodied, the prepared and the spontaneous, the enduring and the transitory, and so on. It is not so much constructed in a logical, sequential manner in the way of the scientific method of doing research but more as a “braided” space, woven from many disparate elements. Second, the book articulates the notion that artistic research in music has its own verification procedures that need to be brought into the academy, especially in terms of the moderation of non-traditional research outputs, including the description of the criteria for allocation of research points for the purposes of data collection, as well as real world relevance and industry engagement. Third, by way of numerous examples of original and creative music making, it demonstrates in practical terms how exploration and experimentation functions as legitimate academic research. Many of the case studies deliberately cross boundaries that were previously assumed to be rigid and definite in order to blaze new musical trails, creating new collaborations and synergies.

Heitor Villa-Lobos’s Bachianas Brasileiras

Author : Norton Dudeque
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 1000452395
Total Pages : 186 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (4 download)

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Download or read book Heitor Villa-Lobos’s Bachianas Brasileiras written by Norton Dudeque and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2021-09-30 with total page 186 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Heitor Villa-Lobos’s Bachianas Brasileiras demonstrates how the composer achieved his own Brazilian neoclassical style in a group of works, nine suites in total, that is arguably one of the best examples of homage to J.S. Bach’s music in the twentieth century. In this book, the corpus of Bachianas Brasileiras is contextualized and critically examined according to its structure and intertextual aspects, as well as its relationship to Bach’s music, Brazilian popular music, and other works by contemporaries of Villa Lobos. A range of musical examples illustrate instances of the selected topics in the works, encompassing urban Brazilian popular music such as the choro, Brazilian northeast and afro rhythms, and citation of folkloric melodies. Dudeque’s comprehensive examination of the Bachianas Brasileiras will be invaluable for scholars and researchers of music theory and analysis.

The Royal College of Music and its Contexts

Author : David C. H. Wright
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
ISBN 13 : 1107163382
Total Pages : 391 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (71 download)

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Download or read book The Royal College of Music and its Contexts written by David C. H. Wright and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 2019-09-05 with total page 391 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A rounded portrait of the Royal College of Music, investigating its educational and cultural impact on music and musical life.