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Bernhard Lang

Critical Guides to Contemporary Composers

Christine Dysers

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English
Intellect Books
25 April 2023
This introduction to a challenging contemporary composer delves into the theory and philosophy of repetition.

 

The work of Austrian composer Bernhard Lang elides easy categorization. While rooted simultaneously in DJ culture, free jazz, pop culture and the Austro-European new music scene, his oeuvre explicitly foregrounds repetition. He is, in his own words, a “repeat offender.”

  Bernhard Lang serves as a critical guide to the composer’s music and traces the phenomenon of repetition throughout his oeuvre. To examine Lang’s repetitive aesthetics, Christine Dysers employs various philosophical methods, such as Gilles Deleuze’s differential ontology. Fusing critical musicology, aesthetic theory, poststructuralist thought, and music analysis, Bernhard Lang brings fresh insight to the work of an award-winning contemporary composer.

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Imprint:   Intellect Books
Country of Publication:   United Kingdom
Edition:   New edition
Dimensions:   Height: 244mm,  Width: 170mm, 
ISBN:   9781789387636
ISBN 10:   1789387639
Series:   Critical Guides to Contemporary Composers
Pages:   190
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Audience:   Professional and scholarly ,  Undergraduate
Format:   Hardback
Publisher's Status:   Active

Dr Christine Dysers is a postdoctoral researcher at the Uppsala University department of musicology. Her research is broadly concerned with music after 1989, with a particular focus on the aesthetics of repetition, music and the political, musical borrowing, and the notion of the uncanny. Christine holds a PhD in music from City, University of London. In 2021, she was appointed as a Fulbright Visiting Scholar in the department of music at Columbia University.

Reviews for Bernhard Lang: Critical Guides to Contemporary Composers

'Dysers explores the concept of repetition, insightfully examining Lang's use of textual quotation, and his practice of musical borrowing. She argues that while repetition is commonly treated as reiteration of a previously explored idea, this is too reductive. She treats it more as radical instability. [...] The book is indebted to music theory, psychology and post-structuralist philosophy, and Dysers has engaged in extended interviews with the composer.' -- Andy Hamilton, The Wire


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