Classical Music Futures : Practices of Innovation.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Smith, Neil Thomas, author.

Contributor:

Peters, Peter.

Molina, Karoly.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Music--Social aspects.

Music.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (432 pages)

Edition:

1st ed.

Other Title:

Classical Music Futures

Place of Publication:

Cambridge, UK : Open Book Publishers, 2024.

Summary:

"This volume brings together contributions from a wide range of international academics and practitioners. It traces innovations within classical music practice, showing how these offer divergent visions for its future. The interdisciplinary contributions to the volume highlight the way contrasting ideas of the future can effect change in the present. A rich balance of theoretical and practical discussion brings authority to this collection, which lays the foundations for timely responses to challenges ranging from the concept of the musical work, and the colonial values within Western musical culture, to unsustainable models of orchestral touring. The authors highlight how labour to meet the demands of particular futures for classical music might impact its creation and consumption, presenting case studies to capture the mediating roles of technology and community engagement."--Publisher information.

Contents:

Intro

Classical Music Futures: Practices of Innovation

Notes on Contributors

Classical Music Futures: An Introduction

Neil Thomas Smith and Peter Peters

1. Roundtable 1: Whose Future?

Neil Thomas Smith with contributions from Maria Hansen, Kirsteen Davidson Kelly, and George E. Lewis

2. Classical Music has a Diversity Problem

Brandon Farnsworth

3. Roundtable 2: Documenting Change: The Role of Best-Practice Guidelines

Neil Thomas Smith (MCICM) with contributions from Hannah Bujic (Sound and Music), Francine Gorman (Keychange), and Fiona Robertson (Sound)

4. Until George Floyd: An Afrofuturist Perspective on the Future of Classical Music and Opera

Antonio C. Cuyler

5. The Voice Party - A New Opera for a New Political Era

Lore Lixenberg

6. Becoming a Classical Musician of the Future The Effects of Training and Experience on Performer Attitudes to Innovation

Stephanie Pitts, Karen Burland and Tom Spurgin

7. The Global Conservatoire: Towards an Integrated Approach to Developing Twenty-First-Century Artists

Diana Salazar and Christina Guillaumier

8. Meaningful Music in Healthcare: Professional Development and Discovered Identities of Classical Musicians Working in Hospital Wards

Krista de Wit and Beste Sevindik

9. Roundtable 3: Orchestras in a Changing Climate

Neil Thomas Smith and Peter Peters with contributions from Teemu Kirjonen, Detlef Grooß, Georgina MacDonell Finlayson, and Jan Jaap Knoll

10. Is It Time for Brahms, Again? The Many Roles of Classical Music in the German-Speaking Lands in 2023

Jutta Toelle

11. The Environmental Sustainability of Symphony Orchestras: Challenges and Potential Solutions

Stine Skovbon

12. The 'Museum Problem' Revisited: Learning from Contemporary Art Conservation

Denise Petzold.

13. Futuring Classical Music through Contemporary Visual Art: Innovative Performance and Listening in the Works of the Artist Anri Sala

Noga Rachel Chelouche

14. Changing Rooms: A Diary of Spatial Innovation

Neil Thomas Smith

15. Monsieur Croche - Concerts at Eye Level

Tal Walker

16. Strategies of Proximity: Breaking Away from the Standard Classical Concert

Folkert Uhde and Hans-Joachim Gögl

17. Audiences of the Future - How Can Streamed Music Performance Replicate the Live Music Experience?

Michelle Phillips and Amanda E. Krause

18. Artificial Intelligence and the Symphony Orchestra

Robert Laidlow

19. Ghosts of the Hidden Layer

Jennifer Walshe

List of Illustrations

List of Audio Files

Index.

Notes:

Description based on publisher supplied metadata and other sources.

ISBN:

1-80511-074-8

1-80511-075-6

OCLC:

1419383163