Composing under the Skin : The Music-making Body at the Composer's Desk PDF
by Craenen Paul Craenen
Part of the Orpheus Institute Series series
Description
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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- Publisher:Universitaire Pers Leuven
- Publication Date:29/04/2014
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- ISBN:9789461661531
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Download - Immediately Available
- Format:PDF
- Publisher:Universitaire Pers Leuven
- Publication Date:29/04/2014
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- ISBN:9789461661531
