Coherence in New Music: Experience, Aesthetics, Analysis

ISBN-13: 9780367229405 / Angielski / Miękka / 2019 / 232 str.

Mark Hutchinson

Opis

Mark Hutchinson outlines a novel concept of coherence within Western art music from the 1980s to the turn of the millennium as a means of understanding the work of a number of contemporary composers, including Thomas Adès, Kaija Saariaho, Tōru Takemitsu and György Kurtág.

Spis treści

1 Introduction: beyond the delta?
2 ‘A here that is gone, or is going’: Adès’s Arcadiana
3 Connections 1: interaction, analysis, energy
4 Pulling inwards, pushing onwards: Saariaho’s Solar
5 Connections 2: shape, continuity, development
6 Strolling through a formal garden: Takemitsu’s How slow the Wind
7 Connections 3: expression, moment, meaning
8 Ruined artefacts: Kurtág’s ΣΤΗΛΗ
9 Conclusions: three statements, three questions

O autorze

Mark Hutchinson is a Lecturer in Music at York St John University. His research focuses upon creative approaches towards the analysis of recent contemporary music, and in particular upon ways of bridging the gap between listening, analysis and critical thought. He is also an active piano accompanist and oboist.