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Reconceiving Structure in Contemporary Music - New Tools in Music Theory and Analysis (Paperback)
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Reconceiving Structure in Contemporary Music - New Tools in Music Theory and Analysis (Paperback)
Series: Routledge Studies in Music Theory
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This book studies recent music in the western classical tradition,
offering a critique of current analytical/theoretical approaches
and proposing alternatives. The critique addresses the present
fringe status of recent music sometimes described as crossover,
postmodern, post-classical, post-minimalist, etc. and demonstrates
that existing descriptive languages and analytical approaches do
not provide adequate tools to address this music in positive and
productive terms. Existing tools and concepts were developed
primarily in the mid-20th century in tandem with the high modernist
compositional aesthetic, and they have changed little since then.
The aesthetics of music composition, on the other hand, have been
in constant transformation. Lochhead proposes new ways to conceive
musical works, their structurings of musical experience and time,
and the procedures and goals of analytic close reading. These tools
define investigative procedures that engage the multiple
perspectives of composers, performers, and listeners, and that
generate conceptual modes unique to each work. In action, they
rebuild a conceptual, methodological, and experiential place for
recent music. These new approaches are demonstrated in analyses of
four pieces: Kaija Saariaho's Lonh (1996), Sofia Gubaidulina's
Second String Quartet (1987), Stacy Garrop's String Quartet no.2,
Demons and Angels (2004-05), and Anna Clyne's "Choke" (2004). This
book defies the prediction of classical music's death, and will be
of interest to scholars and musicians of classical music, and those
interested in music theory, musicology, and aural culture.
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