scholarly journals Women, New Music and the Composition of Becomings

1970 ◽  
Vol 16 (2) ◽  
Author(s):  
Sally Macarthur
Keyword(s):  
Women Composers ◽  
New Music ◽  
Concert Hall ◽  
Music Practice ◽  
The Past ◽  
Ways Of Thinking ◽  
Music Centre

This article argues that ‘new’ music continues to replicate itself by being based on a set of outdated, inflexible practices which foster the centrality of the male, entrepreneurial, composing subject. Aesthetic distinctiveness has been muzzled because too many composers are competing for the same recognition and the same small ‘pot of money’, giving rise to musical mediocrity. The article notes that while the number of women composers studying music has increased in tertiary music institutions and points out that their representation by the Australian Music Centre has improved significantly over the past decade, these statistics are not reflected in the concert hall where women continue to be side-lined. It argues that the entrepreneurial performer is focused on the products created out of the already known and out of its masculinity and explores what would happen if music were composed out of its femininity and the unknown. It draws on Deleuze’s concept of ‘becoming’ to disturb the old ways of thinking, and to imagine a transformation of music practice which would make viable that music which has been traditionally silenced.

WHERE ARE WE NOW?

Tempo ◽  
2018 ◽  
Vol 72 (285) ◽  
pp. 70-73 ◽  
Author(s):  
Matthew Shlomowitz
Keyword(s):  
New Music ◽  
Concert Hall ◽  
The Past ◽  
Critical Composition ◽  
Physical Action

AbstractThis article offers generalised reflections on current aesthetic interests and values within the field of new music. Critical composition and postmodernism are considered for the relevance these historic positions might hold today. Then two important trends of the past decade are presented: first, music that draws attention toward the sounding shape and act of listening, reflecting the recent surge of interest in materialism across academic and artistic disciplines; and second, pieces that include aspects such as physical action, lighting and theatrical approaches to expand the possibilities of concert hall work beyond the purely sonic.

scholarly journals Past music, future music: Technology and music institutions in the 20th century

New Sound ◽  
2016 ◽  
pp. 53-64
Author(s):  
Marija Maglov
Keyword(s):  
20Th Century ◽  
New Technologies ◽  
Music Technology ◽  
New Music ◽  
Music Practice ◽  
The Past ◽  
Pierre Boulez ◽  
The Future ◽  
Progressive Technology ◽  
Point Of Departure

In his text Technology and the Composer Pierre Boulez writes about new technologies that emerged in the 20th century, primarily created for the purposes of music recording and reproduction, but also established as a means of innovation in electronic and electro-acoustic music practice. Boulez points to two directions where technology and music are in question: conservative historicism and progressive technology, enabling the development of new music material and innovation. By using Boulez's text(s) as a point of departure, the author considers the roles those new technologies had in the development of some musical institutions and questions how institutionalized discourse molds ideas on the roles music technology should have. The aim of the paper is to discuss how the music of the past was 'conserved' and how the music of the future was created in particular types of music institutions thanks to new technological possibilities.

Late Novels

2018 ◽  
pp. 67-100
Author(s):  
Hugh Adlington
Keyword(s):  
Eighteenth Century ◽  
Historical Fiction ◽  
Narrative Form ◽  
Blue Flower ◽  
The Past ◽  
Late Eighteenth Century ◽  
Close Analysis ◽  
Romantic Poet ◽  
Late Eighteenth ◽  
Ways Of Thinking

This chapter examines the four ‘late’ novels that are the peak of Penelope Fitzgerald’s achievement as a writer: Innocence, The Beginning of Spring, The Gate of Angels, The Blue Flower. Each novel is, at least superficially, a work of historical fiction in that it is set in the past: in 1950s Italy, in revolutionary Russia, in Edwardian England, and in late-eighteenth-century Germany respectively. But history is decidedly not the defining feature of these novels. Rather, as this chapter shows, all four works are characterized by their bold experimentation with narrative form and style, reflecting an intense concern with profound questions of body, mind and spirit that culminates in Fitzgerald’s haunting masterpiece, the story of the idealized yearning of the German Romantic poet Novalis both for Sophie von Kühn, his ‘heart’s heart’, and for revelation. Through close analysis of Fitzgerald’s methods of research, composition and editing, this chapter proposes fresh ways of thinking about the stylistic means by which these late novels create fictional worlds that expand to fill the reader’s imagination, and even appear to possess an existence independent of the novels themselves.

Helsinki Music Centre Concert Hall

2020 ◽  
pp. 79-86
Author(s):  
Yasuhisa Toyota ◽  
Motoo Komoda ◽  
Daniel Beckmann ◽  
Marc Quiquerez ◽  
Erik Bergal
Keyword(s):  
Concert Hall ◽  
Music Centre

After Beethoven

2020 ◽  
pp. 143-168
Author(s):  
Mark Evan Bonds
Keyword(s):  
Instrumental Music ◽  
New Music ◽  
Musical Life ◽  
Concert Hall ◽  
Public Nature

Beethoven’s style, composers and critics agreed, could not be imitated. But his subjectivity—or, more precisely, his perceived attitude of subjectivity—could be emulated quite readily, and it became the new norm soon after his death. Critics, moreover, heard compositional subjectivity not only in new music but also in selected works of the pre-Beethovenian past. In the meantime, the increasingly public nature of musical life created a growing demand for journals, miniature scores, and composer biographies that could help listeners comprehend an instrumental repertoire that was becoming stylistically ever more diverse and technically difficult. Composer biographies, a rarity before 1800, had become commonplace by mid-century. Concert-hall audiences now assumed that the instrumental music they were hearing came from deep within the soul of the composer.

Acoustical design of the new concert hall at Helsinki Music Centre, Helsinki, Finland

2012 ◽  
Vol 131 (4) ◽  
pp. 3359-3359
Author(s):  
Keiji Oguchi ◽  
Motoo Komoda ◽  
Ayako Hakozaki ◽  
Marc Quiquerez ◽  
Yasuhisa Toyota
Keyword(s):  
Concert Hall ◽  
Music Centre

The Animal Face of Early Modern England

2013 ◽  
Vol 30 (7-8) ◽  
pp. 177-198 ◽  
Author(s):  
Erica Fudge
Keyword(s):  
Early Modern ◽  
17Th Century ◽  
Early Modern England ◽  
History Of Philosophy ◽  
Historical Reconstruction ◽  
The Past ◽  
History Of ◽  
Human Animal ◽  
Ways Of Thinking ◽  
Archival Study

This article is both a work of historical reconstruction and a theoretical intervention. It looks at some influential contemporary accounts of human-animal relations and outlines a body of ideas from the 17th century that challenges what is presented as representative of the past in posthumanist thinking. Indeed, this article argues that this alternative past is much more in keeping with the shifts that posthumanist ideas mark in their departure from humanism. Taking a journey through ways of thinking that will, perhaps, be unfamiliar, the revised vision of human-animal relations outlined here emerges not from a history of philosophy but from an archival study of people’s relationships with and understandings of their livestock in early modern England. At stake are conceptions of who we are and who we might have been, and the relation between those two, and the livestock on 17th-century smallholdings are our guides.

Development of electronic music in Ukraine: emergence of a research methodology

2007 ◽  
Vol 12 (2) ◽  
pp. 153-165 ◽  
Author(s):  
Alla Zagaykevych ◽  
Ivan Zavada
Keyword(s):  
Research Methodology ◽  
Electronic Music ◽  
Cultural Context ◽  
Music Composition ◽  
Current Situation ◽  
New Music ◽  
Music Practice ◽  
New Methods ◽  
Musical Systems

AbstractIn this article the authors present an overview of the current situation in Ukraine, with regards to the question of analytical terminology applied to new methods of creation in electronic music composition. The article establishes the differences and the similarities between the analyses of instrumental and electronic music structures, while considering the role of technology in the creation of new electronic music works. This paper also establishes a link between the origin of current analytical processes and electronic music practice in Ukraine, taking into account the function of a given terminology and its characteristic elements relating to a local geographical and cultural context. The authors underline the importance of integrating new music forms in academic circles and discuss external influences in the development of new musical systems. This is demonstrated by exposing selected musical materials, which can be considered representative of the creative and theoretical processes found in the field of electronic music in Ukraine.

scholarly journals HISTORY EDUCATION AS AN EDUCATIONAL MEDIUM TO EMBODY THE SPIRIT OF NATIONALITY

2018 ◽  
Vol 12 (1) ◽  
pp. 53
Author(s):  
Said Hamid Hasan
Keyword(s):  
Scientific Knowledge ◽  
History Education ◽  
Educational Medium ◽  
The Past ◽  
Historical Education ◽  
Willingness To Sacrifice ◽  
Ways Of Thinking ◽  
Development Of Students

The above objectives of history education clearly indicate that history education aims at the development of students awareness of time concept; scientific knowledge of the society in the past in terms of their values, ways of thinking, attitudes and achievement; skills for understanding and generating  knowledge of the past; attitudes towards history as what happened in the past society, and history as a science that reconstruct the past . To put it in a simple way the objectives suggest that students should have knowledge about the past scientifically and this knowledge is gained through the application of historical thinkings and skills.  The objectives also suggest  that history education should  prepare students for their roles as a citizen who loves and is proud of the country, the nation and their past achievement. Further, the objectives place history as an education media for preparing the students for their future lives. Big potential of historical education is developing the nation’s identity.  Historical education is a vehicle that gives opportunities for young generations to conduct self identification as a member of this nation. History education potential in developing the nation with heroism,leadership, and willingness to sacrifice.

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