Perspectives of New Music articles from January 2000

Perspectives of New Music archives from January 2000

NOTES FOR AN ANALYSIS OF THE CANTI DI LIBERAZIONE.(lecture by composer Luigi Dallapiccola)
January 1, 2000... I AM GRATEFUL--profoundly grateful--to Dr. Luciano Alberti who, in proposing to me this series of seminars, has obliged me to analyze [1]--for the first time--the Canti di liberazione and Ulisse. [2] In general, when finished with a work I...

WORKING OUT THE "IS-TOS AND AS-TOS": LOU HARRISON'S FUGUE FOR PERCUSSION.
January 1, 2000... INTRODUCTION IN THE LINER NOTES to the 1993 recording of Lou Harrison's Fugue Percussion (1941), the composer relates how he and John Cage met in "a good pie shop" in San Francisco to work out the "is-tos and as-tos" of employing in...

ON CONTEXTUAL TRANSFORMATIONS.(music)
January 1, 2000... THE PROPOUND CHANGES that David Lewin and transformational theory have engendered in our thinking about music offer analytical possibilities that have only begun to be explored. The most compelling applications of Lewin's ideas have been by...

MADNESS IN THE MUSIC THEATRE WORKS OF PETER MAXWELL DAVIES.(and influence of works of Michel Foucault)
January 1, 2000... THE PURPOSE OF this article is to examine the treatment of the idea of madness in three of the stage works of Sir Peter Maxwell Davies in the light of the writings on madness of the French philosopher, Michel Foucault. This association was...

HILDEGARD WESTERKAMP'S MOMENTS OF LAUGHTER: RECORDING CHILDHOOD, PERFORMING MOTHERHOOD, REFUSING TO SHUT UP, AND LAUGHING.
January 1, 2000... It has been a learning process for us to enjoy life, to get past that seriousness, and the older we get, the easier we find it to laugh. And we did laugh quite a bit during these interviews, like when Gislean protested our rigid upbringing....

SEVEN STEPS TO HEAVEN: A SPECIES APPROACH TO TWENTIETH-CENTURY ANALYSIS AND COMPOSITION.(music)
January 1, 2000... I PROPOSE TO OUTLINE a system of species counterpoint applicable to twentieth-century modal music. In so doing, I hope to provide this repertory with the kind of broad-based analytical tools that have long been available for tonal music. It is...

A HYBRID COMPOSITIONAL SYSTEM: PITCH-CLASS COMPOSITION WITH TONAL SYNTAX.(music)
January 1, 2000... I. THEORIES OF COMPOSITION AND THE HYBRID SYSTEM [1] THEORIES OF COMPOSITION (i.e., theories for the generation of musical structures) form a spectrum whose range illustrates to what degree a theory determines [2] the organization of a...

REEXPERIENCING LANGUAGE ,AS A MUSIC REVISITED.
January 1, 2000... Take 3/Roll 3 [1] Trips 1 & 2 "begins:" As THESIS unrolls, a reverberant voice--of unmediated inner experience--is overheard: worldforming, giving birth to consciousness and language; neither incoherent nor non-cognitive yet not...