Research Catalog

Title

Substance and content in music today / edited by Claus-Steffen Mahnkopf, Frank Cox, and Wolfram Schurig ; [translations from German: Wieland Hoban].

Publication

Hofheim : Wolke, 2014.

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Details

Additional Authors

• Mahnkopf, Claus-Steffen.
• Cox, Frank, 1961-
• Schurig, Wolfram.

Description

197 p. : ill., music; 24 cm.

Summary

Content and substance (Gehalt) in music is the difficult theme of this volume. The central questions are: in what manner is music more than immanence, structure and autonomous meaning, and to what degree do "extramusical" ideas and conceptions shape the work so that more appears to be in it than music alone. This theme is above all relevant for contemporary music of the 21st century, as ever more composers are interested both in cultural discourse and in a content-orientation for their music. This volume presents essays by twelve composers who were invited to ponder the relationship between musical structure and the substance of music in light of their own musical practices.

Series Statement

New music and aesthetics in the 21st century ; v. 9

Uniform Title

New music and aesthetics in the 21st century ; v. 9.

Subject

• Music > Philosophy and aesthetics > 21st century

Bibliography (note)

• Includes bibliographical references.

Contents

What is the meaning of musical substance? / Claus-Steffen Mahkopf -- Staging absence : the immaterial im Material / Mark Barden -- The sound of the voice is the name of the place / Dániel Péter Biró -- Expressive substance in Eight etudes for cello solo / Frank Cox -- Near and far : how I write away from inspiration / Suzanne Farrin -- The conundrum of the concrete, or, How much content can the substance take? / Wieland Hoban -- Concept and abstraction : void - kol ischa asirit and Hommage à Brian Ferneyhough / Claus-Steffen Mahnkopf -- Dragging the sound : the locus of substance in DRIFT MATTER for solo cello / Timothy McCormack -- Commemorative composition : analytical remarks on Trauermusik im Gedenken der Völkerschlacht 1813 (2012/13) / Kai Johannes Polzhofer -- Étude transcendentale : substance as a compositional task / Wolfram Schurig -- Music as a social situation / Hannes Seidl -- On musical content (from a composer's perspective) / Steven Kazuo Takasugi -- Resistance and difficulty / Ming Tsao.

Call Number

JME 14-477

ISBN

• 9783955932091 (pbk.)
• 3955932095 (pbk.)

OCLC

890127077

Title

Substance and content in music today / edited by Claus-Steffen Mahnkopf, Frank Cox, and Wolfram Schurig ; [translations from German: Wieland Hoban].

Imprint

Hofheim : Wolke, 2014.

Edition

1st ed.

Series

New music and aesthetics in the 21st century ; v. 9

New music and aesthetics in the 21st century ; v. 9.

Bibliography

Includes bibliographical references.

Added Author

Mahnkopf, Claus-Steffen. Editor

Cox, Frank, 1961- Editor

Schurig, Wolfram. Editor

Research Call Number

JME 14-477