Polytempic Polymicrotonal Music

ISBN-13: 9789814968294 / Angielski / Twarda / 2022 / 180 str.

Peter Alexander Thoegersen

Opis

This book introduces polytempic polymicrotonality as a new musical aesthetic. It displays examples of music literature for musical precedence in this area, focusing on Charles Ives’s Universe Symphony, unfinished since 1925 and realized recently by Johnny Reinhard in 1996.

Spis treści

1. Introduction  2. Pitch: Historical Information Leading to the Possibility of Polymicrotonality: Representative Figures and Works  3. Rhythm: Representative Twentieth-Century Polytempic Works  4. Pitch + Rhythm: Literature and Compositions Suggesting Relationships Between Microtonal Pitch and Rhythm, In Terms of Tempo, Leading to the Union of Polymicrotonality and Polytempo: Henry Cowell, Ivan Wyschnegradsky, and Ben Johnston  5. The Progenitor: Charles Ives's Universe Symphony and Its Legacy: Polytempic Polymicrotonal Art Music  6. Conclusion

O autorze

Peter Alexander Thoegersen was born in Los Angeles, USA, in 1967. He earned his doctorate in music composition from the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, USA, in 2012. Thoegersen has had his works premiered in Europe, Australia, and the United States. His CD Three Pieces in Polytempic Polymicrotonality was released by New World Records in 2019, Facebook: What’s On Your Mind? was released on Flea Records in the April of 2021, and Alien Music released on Magic&Unique Records in March 2022.