Experimental affinities in music / edited by Paulo de Assis.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Assis, Paulo de, editor.

Series:

Orpheus Institute series

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Music--History and criticism.

Music.

Arts--Experimental methods.

Arts.

Genre:

Criticism, interpretation, etc.

Physical Description:

249 pages : illustrations, music ; 29 cm.

Place of Publication:

Leuven : Leuven University Press, [2015]

Summary:

This book brings together diverse artistic, philosophical, historical and methodological approaches, creating a broad discourse on artistic experimentation, in dialogue with more orthodox notions of interpretation, and contributing to a better understanding of an "experimental attitude" in music. "Experimentation" is taken to be an adventurous compositional, interpretive, or performative attitude that can cut across different ages and styles; "affinities" suggests connectors and connections, convergences, contiguities, and adjacencies that are found in and through a diversity of approaches and topics. The golden thread running through the essays is the quest for "inherently experimental" musical practices, pursued variously from interrogating, descriptive, or challenging perspectives, and applied to music composed between the thirteenth and the twentieth centuries.

Contents:

Explosive experiments and the fragility of the experimental / Lydia Goehr

Omnis ars ex experimentis dependeat : "Experiments" in fourteenth-century musical thought / Felix Diergarten

"Vieltönigkeit" instead of microtonality : The theory and practice of sixteenth- and seventeenth-century "microtonal" music / Martin Kirnbauer

Inscriptions : An interview with Helmut Lachenmann

Nuance and innovation in Part I of the "48" / Mark Lindley

Tales from Babel : Musical adventures in the science of hearing / Edward Wickham

From clockwork to pulsation : Music and artificial life in the eighteenth century / Lawrence Kramer

The inner ear : An interview with Leon Fleisher

Execution-Interpretation-Performance : The history of a terminological conflict / Hermann Danuser

Monumental theory / Thomas Christensen

Testing respect(fully) : An interview with Frederic Rzewski / Luk Vaes.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and index.

ISBN:

9789462700611

9462700613

OCLC:

934618166