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

• Superior document: Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter EBOOK PACKAGE COMPLETE 2023 English
• 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 conc...

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