Reconceiving Structure in Contemporary Music: New Tools in Music Theory and Analysis

ISBN-13: 9780367598808 / Angielski / Miękka / 2020 / 180 str.

Judy Lochhead

Opis

This book studies recent music in the western classical tradition, offering a critique of current analytical/theoretical approaches and proposing alternatives. It addresses the fringe status of recent music and demonstrates that existing descriptive languages and analytical approaches don’t provide adequate tools to address it in produc

Recenzje

"Through her differentiation from high-modernist practice, Lochhead opens up a space for musical thinking with exciting possibilities, where thinking may be allowed to evolve away from epistemic rigidity and, with the aid of recent philosophical thought, produce a kind of knowledge that can only belong to contemporary music." - Dimitris Exarchos, Goldsmiths, University of London, UK

Spis treści

Introduction  Part I  1. "Modern" Music Analysis  2. What is Structure Anyway?  3. Music Analysis—Producing Knowledge  4. Reconceiving Structure: Investigating, Mapping, Speculating  Part II  5. Technê of Radiance: Kaija Saariaho’s Lonh (1996)  6. Difference and Identity: Sofia Gubaidulina’s Second String Quartet (1987)  7. Incessance of Memory: Stacy Garrop’s String Quartet no.2, Demons and Angels (2004-05)  8. Spiral Morphing: Emergence, Saturation, and Uncoiling in Anna Clyne’s Choke (2004)

O autorze

Judy Lochhead is a theorist and musicologist whose work focuses on the most recent musical practices in North America and Europe, with particular emphasis on music of the western classical tradition.　Her work builds upon concepts and methodologies of various post-philosophies with a particular emphasis on post-phenomenology. She teaches in the Music Department at Stony Brook University.