Composing Under the Skin: The music-making body at the composer's desk - Brossura

Craenen, Paul

Brossura

ISBN 10: 9058679748 ISBN 13: 9789058679741

Casa editrice: Leuven University Press, 2014

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Composer Paul Craenen explores ways in which the musician’s body is revealed in musical performance.

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A revealing study of the physical presence of the musician in musical performance. Fingers slipping over guitar strings, the tap of a bow against the body of a cello, a pianist humming along to the music: contemporary composers often work with parasitic, non-conventional sounds such as these. Are they to be perceived as musical elements or do they shift attention to the physical effort of music-making, contact between a body and an instrument? Composer Paul Craenen explores ways in which the musician's body is revealed in musical performance. He leads us from Cage, Lachenmann, Kagel and their contemporaries to a discussion of how today's generation of young composers is writing a body paradigm into composition itself. Micro-temporal physical gestures and instrumental timbre provide the key to unveiling the physical presence of both a musician and a 'composing body'. The author's concept of 'intercorporeality', along with the idea of an alternating linear and non-linear relationship of the composing body to time, casts new light on the relationship between musicians, composers, and music consumers.

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• Editore: Leuven University Press
• Data di pubblicazione: 2014
• ISBN 10: 9058679748
• ISBN 13: 9789058679741
• Rilegatura: Copertina flessibile
• Numero edizione: 1
• Numero di pagine: 284