Contemporary Classical Music
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Sort Desciption: which Davies’s quartets can be (re)presented as classical music for the twenty-first century, situated within what might be ...
Content Inside: IAML-IAMIC-IMS Contemporary Classical Music Göteborg, Sweden 18-23 June 2006 IMS abstracts and CVs of speakers 2 Monday 19 June 2006 09.30 – 10.30: Opening Session Keynote address by Roland Sandberg (President of IAMIC and Head of the Swedish MIC). The state of contemporary music today and its effects on libraries. Monday, 11.00 – 12.30: Sweden, Ancient and Modern Chair: Hans Ǻstrand (The Royal Swedish Academy of Music). Appealing to the muse and connecting the dots. Writing a history of post-World War II Swedish art music. Speaker: Per F. Broman (Bowling Green State University). In his Narration and Knowledge, Arthur C. Danto has convincingly demonstrated that the notion of narrative constitutes the fundament in the writing of histories, and that there is nothing one can call a description as opposed to an interpretation. But what is a historical narrative? How does one choose the historical bits and pieces that would make up a historical narrative, and then which events to select and interpret? In this essay, I will address a few historiographical problems, previously outlined by Danto and others, in relation to my chapter ‘New Music of Sweden’ in New Music of the Nordic Countries. I argue for an historical account that incorporates a greater variety of narratives than previously given in Swedish historiography: Individual composers and stylistic developments are not seen as the main elements, but rather as complements to the main stories of societal development and cultural policies. I also argue in favour of the characterization of musical development in terms of genres and discourses rather than works, of limited use of teleological modes of description, such as casting history as the history and development of compositional technique, and of less dependence on individual composers’ own accounts. The ‘phenomenal’ bronze lurs: an introduction. Speaker: Cajsa S. Lund (Musik i Syd, Kristianstad). The unique bronze horns of the ...
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