Extended Techniques in Unaccompanied Works for Solo Tuba. Michael James Casey

Extended Techniques in Unaccompanied

Works for Solo Tuba Written between

1965-1973 and 2002-2013

Michael James Casey

Link to Document (PDF)

https://drive.google.com/file/d/1j9_ahJV0_3M0aFLPXfGvepLLIb2ca-ah/view?usp=sharing

Extended Bassoon Techniques by Arno Colin Steyn

Extended bassoon techniques: Filling the pedagogical gap 

Arno Colin Steyn 

Link to PDF:

https://repository.up.ac.za/bitstream/handle/2263/70498/Steyn_Extended_2019.pdf?sequence=1&isAllowed=y

Thoughts on a Work for Choir

"Release of Claims" For Trio

"Prototypical Andromania" for Clavichord. Bil Smith Composer.

Excerpts: New Work for Harp (2020)

"Pioneer Bride" for Cello

On Composer's and Appropriation...

Appropriation, following a visual arts model, lifts musical passage in its entirety, reframing it in a score. 

There is very little intervention and editing; the intention begins and ends with the lifting. 

As such, textual appropriation often involves issues of quantity: how much untreated composition is grabbed determines the action. 

Let's look at poetics - if something — say a haiku — is appropriated in its entirety, then the amount of language is small. 

If, on the other hand (as suggested in recent comments to these posts), the Gutenberg Bible is transposed, then the amount of language is enormous. Referring to Marjorie Perloff’s idea of Benjamin’s Arcades Project as a precursor to conceptual poetics, that book deals in complete chunks of pre-existing texts, often running untouched for up to ten pages. 

If we compare this to Pound’s Cantos, we’ll see the difference between the whole and the fragment, a very different project, indeed.

The visual arts began this practice in the twentieth century with Duchamp’s appropriation of a urinal and found its legacy in the consumerist photographic critiques of the 1980s, particularly in the works of Sherrie Levine’s re-photographing of modernist masters and Richard Prince’s and Jeff Koons appropriations of unaltered advertisements. 

Today, of course, appropriation is old hat in the art world. 

But composing — with its reception still fifty years behind visual art — is just beginning to struggle with these issues.  But it is fun.

"Thyiad" for Inderbinen Brass Alto Flute

"Amodetto" For Baritone Sarrusophone

Benedikt Eppelsheim Baritone Sarrusophone

"Amodetto" 

"Tremor" for Violin & Viola

"Tremor"

For Violin and Viola

"Fingerless Gloves: Seminal Coptic Case" for Viola Caipira

"Fingerless Gloves: Seminal Coptic Case" for Viola Caipira

"Fingerless Gloves: Seminal Coptic Case" for Viola Caipira

Bil Smith Composer

1'11"

Premiere NOS Alive Festival

June 8, 2016

Music is Music…and likewise…

It is rather difficult to overcome the nomenclature though for those who are actually engaged

into the process itself it is a vital to go beyond the compositional/notational expression.

Apart of the known theories and critical deliberation upon the meaning of the music and its philosophy, there is a far less explored zone of “pharmacological morphology” of a complex net which is formed by the multiple connections and disconnections between its elements.