Living music
review for the study of music and dance
♯ 2013/4
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Albert Breier and his concept of musical form online
Jaroslav Šťastný → Articles and studies, ♯2013/4
Albert Breier´s music can be characterized by its changing, but fluent musical course. The composer does not rely so much on compositional structure, as he does on his playing with the listeners´ memory and the awareness of…
Questions concerning tectonic thinking in music of the 20th century online
Petr Zvěřina → Articles and studies, ♯2013/4
This study focuses on the tectonic principles of 20th century music. A general tectonics scheme has been created which aids the author to discover and discuss some of these principles. The reciprocal relationships of musical…
Pulse ↔ gesture online
Iva Oplištilová → Articles and studies, ♯2013/4
The study presented is part of a larger work focusing on the relationship between musical-experienced time and objective, measurable, astronomical time. The kineaesthetic connection of the listener to the pulse that comes from…
An Analysis of Form: The Concept of kata in Japanese Traditional Music online
Gunnar Linder → Articles and studies, ♯2013/4
In this article I attempt a partly new way of analysing the clusters of sound that constitute the building blocks – kata – of the fundamental repertoire of the Japanese bamboo flute shakuhachi. These kata can be perceived as…
Mime in the Bohuslav Martinů´s oeuvre online
Radim Vizváry → Articles and studies, ♯2013/4
Composer Bohuslav Martinů had a clear conception of his work Theater Beyond the Gate, which to a great degree was a stylistic response to the most modern avant-garde tendencies in music and theater, while also being firmly…
Research in dance: the issues of the contemporary methodologies and approaches online
Lucie Burešová → Articles and studies, ♯2013/4
In the essay Dance research: on contemporary methods and approaches the author speculates about the use and labelling of different methodologies in dance research. Considering her own research experience, Lucie Burešová argues…
What is N/new Music? online
Different coasts online
Graphic notations online
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