MUS 114 Lecture Notes - Lecture 18: Cornelius Cardew, Just Intonation, Erik Satie
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Subjectivity: mahler and schoenberg set text as, mimesis, as setting: duration, scale, atmosphere, lingering, waiting, straining, as an outpouring or the irrational: total subjectivity, hergew chse, das lied con der erde, verkl rte nacht. Hidden message: note names as the spelling of messages in a private language, signifiers without obvious referents, an unintelligible intelligibility, alban berg: directed to a single person (hanna fuchs-robettin), or to anyone (violin. Mathematical relationships: symmetry, the golden mean, bartok and berg, just intonation and the numerical relationships between frequency values. Non-subjectivity: the composer as supervisor, not creator, group leader, or pastor, not god, accepting rather than choosing: not judging, a music that emerges without the intervention of the subject, cage, la monte young, charles ives, erik satie. Repurposing the past: erik satie and sampling the familiar, a mechanical music, mocking the past, mocking the notion of musical form: the pear, but in o(cid:272)rate, a setting: (cid:862)noting takes pla(cid:272)e (cid:271)ut the pla(cid:272)e itself(cid:863)
