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Coherence in New Music

By Mark Hutchinson

Coherence in New Music

By Mark Hutchinson

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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, T¿ru Takemitsu and György Kurtág, whose music cannot be fitted easily into a particular compositional school or analytical framework. Coherence is understood as a multi-layered phenomenon experienced, above all, in the act of listening, but reliant upon a variety of other aspects of musical experience, including compositional statements, analysis, and connections of aesthetic, and listeners' own, imaginative conceptualisations. Accordingly, the approach taken here is similarly multi-faceted: close analytical readings of a number of specific works are combined with insights drawn from philosophy and aesthetics, music perception, and critical theory, with a particular openness to novel metaphorical presentations of basic musical ideas about form, language and time.
Product details
Edition:
1
Number of Pages:
232
Release Date:
2016-06-28
Publication Date:
2016-06-30
Publisher:
Routledge
Languages:
Original: English
ISBN10:
1472446658
ISBN13:
9781472446657
GPSR Manufacturer Reference:
[email protected]
Weight:
517 g
Height:
161 cm
Width:
240 cm
Thickness:
17 cm
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