Perspectives of New Music articles from June 1999

Perspectives of New Music archives from June 1999

DECONSTRUCTION AND THE MEANING OF MUSIC.
June 22, 1999... Man calls himself man only by drawing limits excluding the other from the play of supplementarity: the purity of nature, of animality, primitivism, childhood, madness, divinity.... [these limits] have meaning only within the closure of a game....

ADORNO AND THE SEMANTICS OF MODERNISM.(Theodor W. Adorno)(Critical Essay)
June 22, 1999... ONE OF THE THINGS postmodernism has taught us (when viewed as a transformation of modernism rather than its antithesis) is that modernism is a multifaceted phenomenon. [1] Thus postmodernism is as much a rereading of modernism as its...

"YES I WROTE IT, BUT I DIDN'T MEAN IT": HEARING THE UNINTENDED IN NIIMI TOKUHIDE'S OHJU (1988).(Critical Essay)(Illustration)
June 22, 1999... IN A RECENT ARTICLE Jonathan Bernard writes: Minimal music is... not non-Western in any meaningful sense. That composers like Reich, Riley, and Glass, through their study of African, Indian, and Far Eastern musics, have essentially...

STRAVINSKY'S SECOND CRISIS: READING THE EARLY SERIAL SKETCHES.(Igor Stravinsky)(Critical Essay)
June 22, 1999... FOLLOWING AS IT DID on the very heels of Schoenberg's death, Stravinsky's adoption of twelve-tone technique in the early 1950s has been characterized variously as a political defection, as a religious conversion, and as a timely hop aboard a...

IMPROVISATION: AN ALWAYS-ACCESSIBLE INSTRUMENT OF INNOVATION.(music)
June 22, 1999... CREATIVITY YESTERDAY AND TODAY IN ECCE HoMo (1889) Nietzsche wrote: "A thought flashes up like I lightning, with necessity, unfalteringly formed--I have never had any choice" (Nietzsche 1979, 102-3). This description of how his thoughts...

IMITATION: TRADITIONAL AND NONTRADITIONAL TRANSFORMATIONS OF MELODIES.
June 22, 1999... (TRANSLATED BY ANTON ROVNER) CAN IMITATIONS AND CANONS be different from those that were ever found in the musical repertoire? The question could seem rhetorical. It could seem so, first, because the theory of imitation and canon appears...

THE DYAD SYSTEM (PARTS TWO AND THREE).(composing electronic music)
June 22, 1999... II. THE ELECTRONIC SOUND DIMENSION THE IDEA OF the Dyad System began with my early work on finding means for controlling the frequency content of certain classic sound-synthesis techniques in a more musically interesting fashion, in...

EDITORIAL NOTES.(various items)(Brief Article)
June 22, 1999... An Invitation Perspectives of New Music affirms its traditional commitment to composers, performers, scholars, and all others interested in any kind of contemporary music. We exclude nothing categorically-- indeed, one of...