Seth Parker Woods: Music as Choreography
Playing an instrument is, among other things, an action. At a fundamental level, a performance involves a sequence of purposive gestures—a set of intentions embodied in certain movements of the body directed toward the...
Pierluigi Billone: Sgorgo Y . N . oO
A good analysis of the new cycle of Pierluigi Billone's compositions for electric guitar and effects, can be well comprehended by the words of guitarist Yaron Deutsch. In the inner booklet of the CD,...
Irving Fine’s Twelve-tone Neoclassicism
Mid-20thcentury art music in America was largely dominated by twelve-tone composition. Other types of music were being composed, neoclassicism among them, but in the postwar years it was serial and other forms of composition...