Description
| Summary: | "For 100 years and more, musicians have been drawn to the potential of musical processes and relationships to embody democratic principles. This book is the first extended study of this 'musical modelling of democracy', as manifested in modern and experimental music of the global North. Four different approaches are surveyed in turn. In the music of Elliott Carter, democratic principles shape the textural relationships inscribed in the musical score. The indeterminate music of John Cage and his associates sought to democratise the composer-performer relationship by leaving open fundamental decisions about the realisation of a piece. Musicians have involved audiences in active participation, as a means to liberate them from a passive spectatorship. Free improvisation groups have experimented with new kinds of egalitarian relationship between ensemble members, in an effort to reject old hierarchies"--
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| Physical Description: | 1 online resource (unpaged) : color illustrations |
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| Bibliography: | Includes bibliographical references and index. |
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| ISBN: | 9780197658840
0197658849
9780197658833
0197658830
9780197658826
0197658822 |
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| Source of Description, Etc. Note: | Description based on online resource; title from digital title page (viewed on October 25, 2023). |
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