a| 9783936000146

a| eng

4| aut a| Mahnkopf, Claus-Steffen 9| 15875

a| The Foundations of Contemporary Composing

a| Hofheim b| Wolke c| 2004

a| 199 pages

a| New Music and Aesthetics in the 21st Century v| 3

a| The goal of this volume is to appraise, on a theoretical and artistic level, the foundations of contemporary composition, whereby by contemporary the recent past and direct present was understood. The following reasons were decisive in choosing this topic: a) the musicological research in the domain of new music is concentrated on the now historical preiod from ca. 1950 to 1970; b) writings about contemporary music since the 1980s have been increasingly lacking in seriousreflection an d theoretical perspective; c) a clearly perceptible transformation from a First to a Second Modernity, obscured by the postmodern phenomenon and now awaiting serious critical appraisal, should be supported, above all in view of its artistic and creative potentials; and d) finally, the increasing pluralization of the discourse of contemporary composition demands a dialogical confrontation of divergent approaches.In The Foundations of Contemporary Compoising, the composers and musicologists, along with one philosopher and one interpreter explore the terrain of contemporary composition in a systematic fashion. These researches are presented in four sections: categories (Progressm reflection, deconstruction, conceptuality), material and form (Harmony, polyphony, spectralism), technology (algorithmic and electroacoustic composition, Sound composition), and interdisciplinary reflection/ contemporary performance practice. The contributors to this volume are the following: Mark André, Sebastian Claren, Frank Cox, Gunnar Hindrichs, Wieland Hoban, Claus-Steffen Mahnkopf, Barbara Maurer, Johannes Menke, Chris Mercer, Nicolai Sani, Anne Sedes, and Steven Kazuo Takasugi.

1| http://www.wikidata.org/entity/Q6927 a| 20th Century (1901-2000) 9| 20936

1| http://www.wikidata.org/entity/Q92186587 a| Composing 9| 3076

c| BOO

a| boek

b| ORPH c| ORPH j| ORPH.AES MAHN

d| 15435