Revisiting 'simplicity and richness': postmodernism after 'the new complexity'

Hair, G. (2005) Revisiting 'simplicity and richness': postmodernism after 'the new complexity'. Network for Interdisciplinary Studies in Science, Technology, and Music,

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Abstract

This article brings together reflections of different kinds on several different, but related, experiences. The principal one of these was personal, although it had a public output: the composing of two recent works ( O Venezia, for four women’s voices and harp and Twelve Transcendental Concert Studies on Themes from the Australian Poets for piano solo). Both of these pieces exemplify a compositional approach which is often characterised as ‘postmodern’ and both of them are also tonal compositions in some sense or that word. Since both were composed in the early twenty-first century, after a period in which atonal compositional languages held sway in much repertoire of the Western ‘classical’ tradition, the form of tonality which they exemplify could, with considerable justification, be characterised as ‘post-atonal tonality’.

Item Type:Articles
Status:Published
Refereed:Yes
Glasgow Author(s) Enlighten ID:Hair, Professor Graham
Authors: Hair, G.
College/School:College of Science and Engineering
Journal Name:Network for Interdisciplinary Studies in Science, Technology, and Music
Publisher:N-ISM

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Project CodeAward NoProject NamePrincipal InvestigatorFunder's NameFunder RefLead Dept
402941Transcendental Etudes - Using Parametric Counterpoint and Figural Narrative to Recontextualise a Generic Pianistic ConceptGraham HairArts and Humanities Research Council (AHRC)112575/1SCHOOL OF ENGINEERING
372931O Venezia - voices, texts, rhetoric, post-atonal tonality and compositional process in three cantatasGraham HairThe Arts & Humanities Research Board (AHRB-POST)B/SG/AN2622/APNSCHOOL OF ENGINEERING