The Foundations of contemporary composition
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The Foundations of contemporary composition
（New music and aesthetics in the 21st century / edited by Claus-Steffen Mahnkopf, Frank Cox, and Wolfram Schurig, v. 3）
Wolke, 2004
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Foundations of contemporary composing
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"Published in collaboration with the Akademie Schloss Solitude"
Translations by Wieland Hoban
Papers, some originally in German, presented Sept. 27-29, 2002 at a symposium organized by the Gesellschaft für Musik und Ästhetik
Contents of Works
- A. Categories. Musical progress? New music and perils of progressivist historicism / Frank Cox
- Reflection, critique, utopia, messianicity: criteria of modern music or how far does the notion of musical deconstruction carry? / Claus-Steffen Mahnkopf
- Construction and conceptuality / Sebastian Claren
- B. Material and form. Thoughts on harmony today / Johannes Menke
- On the methodology and aesthetics of form-polyphony / Wieland Hoban
- French spectralism: from the frequency to the temporal domain: analysis, models, synthesis ... and future prospects / Anne Sedes
- C. Reflexion. Musical modernity: what does it mean today? / Gunnar Hindrichs
- Cult and concert: the figure of the performer / Gunnar Hindrichs
- Cult and concert: the figure of the performer / Barbara Maurer
- D. Technologies. Computer-assisted musical composition and creation of a compositional model / Mark André
- Composing algorithms, composing with algorithms: a critical assessment / Chris Mercer
- Klang: sound composition pulled "inside out" / Steven Kazuo Takasugi
- Musical thought and technology: composing by means of the present / Nicola Sani