Arne Deforce
The thesis wishes to examine the pathways of thought underlying the creative act of music making and the performance practice of complex music from the late twentieth and early twenty-first century. The questions at stake in the case of a ‘new’ complexity score, that is to say what is the significance of the extreme complex notation, are the score and the music playable and do they work, and how and under what condition do they work, these are the issues to be resolved by the performer.
Keywords:
barrett, cage, cello, etudes boreales, feldman, ferneyhoughs, life-form, scelsi, xenakis
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