Substance and content in music today
By: edited by Claus-Steffen Mahnkopf, Frank Cox, and Wolfram Schurig ; [translations from German: Wieland Hoban]
Edition: First edition.
Series: New music and aesthetics in the 21st century -- volume 9; New music and aesthetics in the 21st century -- v. 9.
Publisher: Wolke
Published: 2014
Place of publication: Hofheim
Language: eng
Number of pages: 197
ISBN-13: 9783955932091
Subjects: Music; Philosophy and aesthetics
Description: 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.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references.
Table of contents: title: What is the meaning of musical substance?  -- Claus-Steffen Mahkopf; title: Staging absence : the immaterial im Material  -- Mark Barden; title: The sound of the voice is the name of the place  -- Dániel Péter Biró; title: Expressive substance in Eight etudes for cello solo  -- Frank Cox -- Near and far : how I write away from inspiration / -- Suzanne Farrin; title: The conundrum of the concrete, or, How much content can the substance take?  -- Wieland Hoban; title: Concept and abstraction : void - kol ischa asirit and Hommage à Brian Ferneyhough  -- Claus-Steffen Mahnkopf; title: Dragging the sound : the locus of substance in DRIFT MATTER for solo cello  -- Timothy McCormack; title: Commemorative composition :  analytical remarks on Trauermusik im Gedenken der Völkerschlacht 1813 (2012/13)  -- Kai Johannes Polzhofer; title: Étude transcendentale : substance as a compositional task  -- Wolfram Schurig; title: Music as a social situation  -- Hannes Seidl; title: On musical content (from a composer's perspective)  -- Steven Kazuo Takasugi; title: Resistance and difficulty -- Ming Tsao.