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020 _aP3.0267.1.00
020 _a9781950192502
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041 0 _aEnglish
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072 7 _aAVGC6
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100 1 _aCavell, Richard
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245 1 0 _aSpeechsong : The Gould/Schoenberg Dialogues
260 _aBrooklyn, NY
_bpunctum books
_c2020
300 _a1 electronic resource (154 p.)
506 0 _aOpen Access
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_fUnrestricted online access
520 _a"Speechsong is a work of imaginative musicology that addresses the engimas of Schoenberg and Gould, of singing and speaking, of Moses und Aron, of technology and being. Its point of departure is Gould’s last public performance, given at the Wilshire Ebell Theatre in Los Angeles, where a number of Schoenberg’s works were performed during his California exile. It is here, after that last performance, that Gould encounters a spectral Schoenberg in a staged conversation that explores Schoenberg’s travails in rethinking the fundamentals of Western music. This first part of Speechsong recalls Schoenberg’s operatic masterpiece, Moses und Aron, in which the divinely inspired Moses seeks the help of his brother to relate his vision: Moses speaks and Aron sings. Written as a twelve-tone composition, the opera produces an involution of harmonics that was Schoenberg’s response to Richard Wagner’s diatribes about synagogue noise. For Gould, Schoenberg’s is a formalist revolution; Schoenberg’s life, however, suggests that it was a search for personal and political freedom. The second half of Speechsong is a critical essay in twelve “moments” that re-articulates the staged conversation as an inquiry into the intersections of music and mediation. Gould’s turn to the recording studio emerges as a post-humanist inquiry into recorded music as a repudiation of the virtuoso tradition and a liberation from unitary notions of selfhood. Schoenberg’s exodus from musical tradition likewise takes his twelve-tone invention beyond musical performance, where it emerges, along with Gould’s soundscapes, as a prototype of acoustic installations by artists such as Stephen Prina and Cory Arcangel. In these works, music abandons the concert hall and the exigencies of harmony for an acoustic space that embraces at once the recordings of Gould and the performances of Schoenberg that have found their home on the internet."
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546 _aEnglish
650 7 _a20th century & contemporary classical music
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653 _aGlenn Gould
653 _aArnold Schoenberg
653 _amusic compositio
653 _aradio
653 _atwentieth-century music
653 _arecording techniques
653 _aSprechstimme
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