Composers on Stage
Ambiguous Authorship in Contemporary Music Performance
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 4774620 |
|---|---|
| Authors | Sanne Krogh Groth (0000-0001-7901-7734, corresponding author) |
| Year | 2016 |
| Volume | 35 |
| Issue | 6 |
| Pages | 686-705 |
| Publication date | 2016-11-01 |
| Peer Reviewed | Yes |
| Open Access | No |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | Contemporary Music Review (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 0749-4467 • E-ISSN: 1477-2256 |
| Publisher | Informa UK Limited (PUBLISHER • GB) |
| DOI | 10.1080/07494467.2016.1282650 |
| OpenAlex | W2592432844 |
| Language | EN |
| Citations received | 3 |
| References cited | 11 |
In recent years, workflows within the field of contemporary classical music have changed drastically. Increasingly, composers are active in the process of creating and co-creating performances, not only the auditory dimensions but also the visual design and theatrical staging. The practice has recently been termed The New Discipline [Jennifer Walshe (2016, March 4). The new discipline: A compositional manifesto. Retrieved from www.borealis.no]. Of particular interest to the present article are composers of this practice taking part in the performance itself, not as professional musicians but involving themselves in other ways. The article explores the ambivalent authorship at stake in these performances, arguing that they appear to be projects that reveal the processes of musical performance in ways that undermine the Romantic idea of the composer while concurrently celebrating that very same idea through their exposition and staging of the composer. The examples used to illustrate my argument are analyses of All the Time (Hodkinson, 2001), Buenos Aires (Steen-Andersen 2014) and Ord for Ord (Rønsholdt, 2014)
Aesthetics · Art · Contemporary classical music · Literature · Musical · Visual arts · Digital Education and Society · History · Music Technology and Sound Studies
| Unique citing works | 3 |
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| Citations per year | 0,43 |
| Citation span | 2019 - 2022 (4) |
| Citation velocity | historical |
| Highly cited | No |
| Citation types | Neutral: 3 |