Perspectives of New Music articles from January 2002

Perspectives of New Music archives from January 2002

Focusing on freedom and movement in music: methods of transcription inside a continuum of rhythm and sound.(Critical Essay)
January 1, 2002... INTRODUCTION TRANSCRIPTION FROM THE SOUND-RHYTHM CONTINUUM is certainly one of the most revolutionary techniques in new music composition. However, in what follows, this subject will be considered not only from a methodological point of...

From technical to technological: the imperative of technology in experimental music composition.(Critical Essay)
January 1, 2002... INTRODUCTION PHILOSOPHER ARTHUR DANTO used the term "post-historical" to refer to a period in art--roughly from the late 1950s to the present--in which "art was no longer possible in terms of a progressive historical narrative" (Danto...

The multiplicative norm and its implications for set-class theory.
January 1, 2002... ON PAGES 85-7 of his book Generalized Musical Intervals and Transformations, David Lewin makes a "methodological point," namely, that formal and intuitive truths may not always coincide. As an example he cites from the first movement of...

Review of Audible Traces.(Book Review)
January 1, 2002... THE COVER of this volume of essays bears a slightly out-of-focus photograph of a section of a quilt. An analogy is drawn between book and bedcover by editor(/photographer) Lydia Hamessley though she allows that, in comparison with a quilt, the...

Worth noting: Roger Reynolds's Form and Method.(Book Review)
January 1, 2002... Rather than being suddenly revealed, whole, a musical work is achieved gradually over time in a manner that doubtless varies for each composer: part discovery, part construction, even, admittedly, part contrivance (and, if the poet John...