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Coherence in New Music

Experience, Aesthetics, Analysis

Mark Hutchinson

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English
Routledge
30 June 2016
What does it mean to talk about musical coherence at the end of a century characterised by fragmentation and discontinuity? How can the diverse influences which stand behind the works of many late twentieth-century composers be reconciled with the singular immediacy of the experiences that they can create? How might an awareness of the distinctive ways in which these experiences are generated and controlled affect the way we listen to, reflect upon and write about this music? Mark Hutchinson outlines a novel concept of coherence within Western art music from the 1980s to the turn of the millennium as a means of understanding the work of a number of contemporary composers, including Thomas Adès, Kaija Saariaho, Tōru Takemitsu and György Kurtág, whose music cannot be fitted easily into a particular compositional school or analytical framework. Coherence is understood as a multi-layered phenomenon experienced, above all, in the act of listening, but reliant upon a variety of other aspects of musical experience, including compositional statements, analysis, and connections of aesthetic, as well as listeners' own, imaginative conceptualisations. Accordingly, the approach taken here is similarly multi-faceted: close analytical readings of a number of specific works are combined with insights drawn from philosophy and aesthetics, music perception, and critical theory, with a particular openness to novel metaphorical presentations of basic musical ideas about form, language and time.

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Imprint:   Routledge
Country of Publication:   United Kingdom
Edition:   New edition
Dimensions:   Height: 234mm,  Width: 156mm,  Spine: 23mm
Weight:   453g
ISBN:   9781472446657
ISBN 10:   1472446658
Pages:   214
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Audience:   College/higher education ,  Further / Higher Education ,  A / AS level
Format:   Hardback
Publisher's Status:   Active
1 Introduction: beyond the delta? 2 ‘A here that is gone, or is going’: Adès’s Arcadiana3 Connections 1: interaction, analysis, energy 4 Pulling inwards, pushing onwards: Saariaho’s Solar5 Connections 2: shape, continuity, development 6 Strolling through a formal garden: Takemitsu’s How slow the Wind7 Connections 3: expression, moment, meaning 8 Ruined artefacts: Kurtág’s ΣΤΗΛΗ 9 Conclusions: three statements, three questions

Mark Hutchinson is a Lecturer in Music at York St John University. His research focuses upon creative approaches towards the analysis of recent contemporary music, and in particular upon ways of bridging the gap between listening, analysis and critical thought. He is also active as a piano accompanist and oboist.

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