Neue Musik konfrontiert uns mit ungewohnten Klängen und zwingt uns so, unser Verhältnis zur Welt zu hinterfragen. Sie rüttelt auf und ist somit immer auch politisch, so die gängige These. Am Beispiel von Helmut Lachenmann, einem der prominentesten Komponisten der Gegenwart, macht Lena Drazic Texte über Neue Musik zur Grundlage einer Diskursanalyse, die deren politischen Versprechungen auf den …
The volume deals with various topics related to keyboard music in the sixteenth century. These include aesthetic ideas associated with keyboard playing, the spread of the harpsichord in the sixteenth century, keyboard notation and its specific features, questions of tempo, rhythm and ornamentation, and iconographic sources as a basis for reconstructing playing techniques.
Since Ein Sportstück (1998), Elfriede Jelinek’s theater texts have referred to Greek tragedy with inimitable consistency. Against the backdrop of right-wing populism, #metoo, and the climate crisis, the author crosses the gaze of Aeschylus, Sophocles, and Euripides, thereby traversing and/or queering categorizations in terms of gender, class, and ethnicity.
Music is a resource for societal transformation processes. This book provides recent insights into how individuals and groups used and still use music to achieve social, cultural and political participation and bring about social change. The contributors present outstanding perspectives on the topic: From the promise and myth of democratization through music technology; to the use of music …
