Paul Craenen Composing under the skin

the music-making body at the composer's desk

A revealing study of the physical presence of the musician in musical performance. Fingers slipping over guitar strings, the tap of a bow against the body of a cello, a pianist humming along to the music: contemporary composers often work with parasitic, non-conventional sounds such as these. Are they to be perceived as musical elements or do they shift attention to the physical effort of music-making, contact between a body and an instrument? Composer Paul Craenen explores ways in which the musician's...

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Engels | 288 pagina's (PDF, 2,9 MB) | Leuven University Press, Leuven | 2017

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