contemporary music

avguste · Feb 23, 2008

I don't think it is that hard at all to get hold of new music scores.Just need to know people,have contacts.

By the way,how is Weirich doing?I studied with him for one year.

Apologies for the lack of introduction. I posted some about myself in the Audition Forum.

All I was saying is that the term contemporary is a misnomer since a lot of the music being discussed was written many decades ago. Labeling music since the turn of the 20th Century, is rather difficult since composers really began to branch out in a lot of different directions simultaneously. In teaching this music, classes I've seen typically label it all as 20th Century music, and divide as pre- and post-WWII. I just wanted to get people thinking about the term and its connotations.

My other point was how hard it is to get a hold of or learn about really recent art music. I had to go to the composers themselves in most cases for my research, as many of these pieces would be held by only one library (university or otherwise) in the US. I think that says a lot about how we as performers view music vs. those around 1900.

Personally, I get excited thinking that I could (in a very small way) help shape what music enters the standard repertoire in the coming years. By performing and teaching new music, I see myself as part of a larger dialogue, and I personally think that's pretty cool.
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avguste · Feb 23, 2008

All the composers I refer to are alive and still composing.
Mackey is based in New York(last I checked),Bolcom and Daugherty are faculty at U. Michigan,Pann is faculty at U. of Colorado-Boulder, Meyn is faculty at Texas Christian, Murnak(who is writing a piece for me) is faculty at U. Florida

Oh good grief.

I love how 'contemporary' music is considered. That term is so outdated it's ridiculous.

How many of these 'contemporary' composers mentioned are even alive today? How many were born in the 19th Century? I noticed that some people mentioned Reich, Glass, and Adams. Not bad, we're starting to get somewhere.

Now, I am of course biased as I'm working on a dissertation that concerns post-minimalist music, basically nothing written before 1980, but this term 'contemporary' really gets on my nerves.

It isn't exactly our fault either. I'm in a theory class that is actually called 'contemporary' music, but it only covers Schoenberg and Stravinsky. Huh. That's weird... If you want to see what's going on in music now, you've really got to do a lot of leg work yourself, which is really a tragedy.

Thoughts?
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Biggemski · Mar 28, 2008

Hi! Do anybody have some piano sheets of pieces by Mauricio Kagel or Dieter Schnebel. It would be very appreciated :wink:

Biggemski · Apr 2, 2008

or pieces including piano by alfred schnittke...please :wink:

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