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The New Image of Music, George Rochberg. Perspectives of New Music, Vol. 2, No. 1 (Autumn – Winter, 1963) We shall not dwell on the noteworthy fact that, beginning with the Baroque era, the temporal structure of music, linked to an increasingly strong and expanding sense of tonality, developed ever more complex forms of sonorous […] This has to be unintentional. (From the essay The New Image of Music on pg. 22 of Rochberg’s The Aesthetics of Survival): “Finally, in the work of Varèse we discern the essential characteristics of a music which is fully and consciously spatial in its structure and imagery. Varèse’s first major works, composed in the 1920’s, […] From the review of Christian Marclay’s ‘Clock’ by Ben Ratliff: Time is a kind of music, music is a kind of time Reminds me of the idea of music being “sound in time”. I was thinking as I wrote a paper about Arvo Pärt about this comic below, but how it pertained to music. When people who aren’t really informed about early classical music listen, they probably can’t tell the difference between the Ars Nova and other renaissance music (maybe not even that and medieval or Baroque!). Even […] It’s only a joke, and it’s one I’ve made myself in the past. It usually begins with someone discussing composers and Philip Glass being brought up. At which point the wittier (not) among us go, “Philip Glass, Philip Glass, Philip Glass, Philip Glass, Philip Glass…etc…” The problem with this is that it would be far […] This past Thursday I was invited to go see Cadillac Moon Ensemble (CME) perform by two colleagues of mine, Evelyn Farny and Patti Kilroy. Opening up for them was Magic Names Group, a troupe of six vocalists founded specifically to perform the work Stimmung, which they performed in excerpt that evening. They also performed a […] Though I don’t believe that music education’s short shrift in curriculum alone is the reason for the past decades marked decline in the Classical audience base, it always deserves pointing out that music education isn’t just about introducing younger folks to traditional art music. In The Sunday New York Times Joanne Lipman contributed an Op-Ed […] Greg Sandow has a series of posts on diversity in classical music where the principle idea is derived from Ramon Ricker’s quote: Thinking about the well-documented changing demographic of the US towards greater numbers of citizens with other than European (read: white) ancestry, I can’t believe that this population, in 50 years or probably less, […] I recently chronicled attending an avant new music concert at Teatro IATI where Bora Yoon would run what she sang/played through a looping pedal. She would layer harmonies, melodies and pulses on top of each other to create a whole texture. She is not the only one to be using this technique. Here is a […] Soundtracks are an integral part of a movie. Many movies just use current pop songs or older classics, but as I am sure you know a large segment have a composer write a score. Aside from people liking music, and thus the reason to put it in movies, music provides an emotional underpinning for a […] |
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