Before Sound : : Re-Composing Material, Time, and Bodies in Music / / Tiziano Manca.

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• VerfasserIn: Manca, Tiziano,
• Place / Publishing House: Bielefeld : : transcript Verlag, , [2023]; ©2023
• Year of Publication: 2023
• Language: English
• Series: Musik und Klangkultur ; 64
• Physical Description: 1 online resource (196 p.)

In Before Sound, composer Tiziano Manca investigates the premises for and consequences of a major change in his compositional practice: this change emphasizes the temporality of sound and, more recently, the relationship between sounding body and musician. It calls into question the traditional conception of composition and its relation to sound material. Accordingly, Manca examines the theoretical and aesthetic reasons for this shift by interweaving aesthetic reflection on his work with historical research on the notion of musical material and the theory of sound production.

Table of Contents

Frontmatter -- Contents -- Acknowledgments -- Introduction -- 1 Beginnings -- Introduction -- 1.1 Elements and Matter -- 1.2 Aristoxenus’ Elements of Music -- 1.3 Transmission and Reception -- 1.4 Elements, Letters, Notes -- 2 Matter and Material -- Introduction -- 2.1 Dissonant Material -- 2.2 Sound and Composition -- 2.3 Given or Constructed? -- 2.4 Timbre, Noise, and Language -- 3 Time and Rhythm -- Introduction -- 3.1 Material and Modernity -- 3.2 Taking Place -- 3.3 Aperiodic Rhythms -- 3.4 Quasiperiodic Forms -- 4 Sounds and Instruments -- Introduction -- 4.1 Pitched Bodies -- 4.2 Sounds without Bodies -- 4.3 Reference -- 4.4 Agent and Reproducibility -- 4.5 Sonocentrism -- 5 Musical Bodies -- Introduction -- 5.1 Bodies without Sound -- 5.2 Composing a Gesture -- Conclusions -- List of Works -- Abbreviations -- Reference List