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Proceedings of the Worldwide Music Conference 2021“Zero Gravity”: A Specific Textural Type in Contemporary European Art Music

Proceedings of the Worldwide Music Conference 2021: “Zero Gravity”: A Specific Textural Type in... [Unlike the pointillist style of mid-century serialism, contemporary European art music possesses gestural-textural units with the potential to stimulate the listener to form associative links. This paper focuses on a specific slow-paced textural type, which appears to have emerged as part of the vocabulary of today’s music and suggests it may fruitfully be analysed in the light of various perspectives of musical gestures. While such an approach suggests a path going beyond analytical methods focusing on the internal working mechanisms of the post-serial repertory, it will in fact concentrate on auditory perception of the gestural-textural vocabulary of this repertory and its expressive qualities, from the oft-neglected listener’s experience. This study focuses on prominent composers of contemporary European concert music, who follow the modernist lines of the avant-garde, including Ivan Fedele (b.1953), Michael Jarrell (b.1958), Unsuk Chin (b.1961), Philippe Hurel (b.1955), and aims to lay the groundwork for further study to put the repertory in question in a historical, cultural and stylistic perspective.] http://www.deepdyve.com/assets/images/DeepDyve-Logo-lg.png

Proceedings of the Worldwide Music Conference 2021“Zero Gravity”: A Specific Textural Type in Contemporary European Art Music

Part of the Current Research in Systematic Musicology Book Series (volume 8)
Editors: Khannanov, Ildar D.; Ruditsa, Roman
İncirlioğlu, Füsun Köksal
Proceedings of the Worldwide Music Conference 2021 — Apr 13, 2021
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Springer International Publishing
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© The Editor(s) (if applicable) and The Author(s), under exclusive license to Springer Nature Switzerland AG 2021
ISBN
978-3-030-74038-2
Pages
79 –93
DOI
10.1007/978-3-030-74039-9_9
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Abstract

[Unlike the pointillist style of mid-century serialism, contemporary European art music possesses gestural-textural units with the potential to stimulate the listener to form associative links. This paper focuses on a specific slow-paced textural type, which appears to have emerged as part of the vocabulary of today’s music and suggests it may fruitfully be analysed in the light of various perspectives of musical gestures. While such an approach suggests a path going beyond analytical methods focusing on the internal working mechanisms of the post-serial repertory, it will in fact concentrate on auditory perception of the gestural-textural vocabulary of this repertory and its expressive qualities, from the oft-neglected listener’s experience. This study focuses on prominent composers of contemporary European concert music, who follow the modernist lines of the avant-garde, including Ivan Fedele (b.1953), Michael Jarrell (b.1958), Unsuk Chin (b.1961), Philippe Hurel (b.1955), and aims to lay the groundwork for further study to put the repertory in question in a historical, cultural and stylistic perspective.]

Published: Apr 13, 2021

Keywords: Contemporary music; Musical gesture and expression; Topicality in contemporary music; Gestural-textural types in recent music; Music perception

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