The Foundations of contemporary composition / edited by Claus-Steffen Mahnkopf.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Mahnkopf, Claus-Steffen.

Akademie Schloss Solitude.

Gesellschaft für Musik und Ästhetik.

Series:

New music and aesthetics in the 21st century ; v.3.

New music and aesthetics in the 21st century ; v.3

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Composition (Music)--21st century.

Composition (Music).

Music--21st century.

Music.

Physical Description:

199 pages : music ; 24 cm.

Other Title:

Foundations of contemporary composing

Place of Publication:

Hofheim : Wolke, [2004]

Contents:

A. Categories. Musical progress? New music and perils of progressivist historicism / Frank Cox ; Reflection, critique, utopia, messianicity: criteria of modern music or how far does the notion of musical deconstruction carry? / Claus-Steffen Mahnkopf ; Construction and conceptuality / Sebastian Claren

B. Material and form. Thoughts on harmony today / Johannes Menke ; On the methodology and aesthetics of form-polyphony / Wieland Hoban ; French spectralism: from the frequency to the temporal domain: analysis, models, synthesis ... and future prospects / Anne Sedes

C. Reflexion. Musical modernity: what does it mean today? / Gunnar Hindrichs ; Cult and concert: the figure of the performer / Barbara Maurer

D. Technologies. Computer-assisted musical composition and creation of a compositional model / Mark André ; Composing algorithms, composing with algorithms: a critical assessment / Chris Mercer ; Klang: sound composition pulled "inside out" / Steven Kazuo Takasugi ; Musical thought and technology: composing by means of the present / Nicola Sani.

Notes:

Published in collaboration with the Akademie Schloss Solitude, Stuttgart.

Translations by Wieland Hoban.

Papers, some originally in German, presented Sept. 27-29, 2002 at a symposium organized by the Gesellschaft für Musik und Ästhetik.

ISBN:

393600014X

OCLC:

56635041