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Harwood Academic Publishers (Chur, etc.), 1994 ix, 172pp ISBN: 3-7186-5553-5 (Hardback) 3-7186-5554-3 (Softback) |
Experimental Music Notebooks is about experimenting with sound: it is a book made for today's and tomorrow's music educator. The book describes a workshop approach for those who have trouble finding a way into the appreciation of experimental music. This approach enables teachers from primary, secondary and higher education, and within the community, to create circumstances for music experimentation for the classroom, as well as in other sometimes unusual contexts. Special points of focus include awareness of organising sounds through listening, experiencing soundscapes in various spaces, finding parallels with the sister arts, using sounds as sources for music-making, electroacoustic music, libertarian approaches to music-making, new complexities, simplicities and performance practices, audio-visual sonic art, and fusion and assimilation in experimental (popular) music.
Table of Contents
PART 1
I. INTRODUCTION
The approach
II. PRELIMINARY CHAPTER - GETTING THINGS STARTED
The musical world of sounds - Delineating our area of focus
Awareness/1: What one must do first - listen!
Awareness/2: Experimentation in the sister arts
A few introductory remarks on music education in our area
PART 2 - THE INNER CHAPTERS
III. SOUND SOURCES AND COLOUR
Sound = a source
Music = a source of inspiration and of sounds
A special case: Electroacoustic music
IV. SPATIAL AWARENESS
Outside/1: The concert hall as concert hall
Outside/2: The world as concert hall
Inside/1: The home as concert hall
Inside/2: Your headphones as concert hall
V. NOTATION / FORM / INTERPRETATION / PERFORMANCE
Opening: Technique (tekhne) vs. technology (tekhnologia)
Freeing things up/1: Interpretation <-> improvisation
Freeing things up/2: Aleatoric thinking <-> indeterminacy
Freeing things up/3: New notations and open form
Closing things up: New complexities … and New simplicities
Summing things up: New performance practices
A special subject: Audio-visual approaches
PART 3
VI. WORKSHOP APPROACHES FOR THE NINETIES
Workshops/1: At schools
Workshops/2: In the community
Workshops/3: Among musicians
VII. A FEW CLOSING WORDS
APPENDICES
A glossary for chapter III
Chapter II - From the bookshelf: a reading list for music education
Chapter III - Reading list and repertoire suggestions
Chapter IV - Reading list and repertoire suggestions
BIBLIOGRAPHY + INDEX OF NAMES