Isbn: 9789058679741 - composing under the skin: the music-making body at the composer's desk (orpheus institute) (3 Ergebnisse)

Zustand: New. KlappentextrnrnA 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.

284 pp., very good and clean, text in English, Sprache: Englisch Gewicht in Gramm: 1100 original softcover (no dust jacket).

Taschenbuch. Zustand: Neu. Neuware - 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. This publication is GPRC-labeled (Guaranteed Peer-Reviewed Content). …