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The Contemporary Bassoonist: Music for Interactive Electroacoustics and Bassoon

As the bassoon has evolved over time, the music written for the instrument has evolved around it, and was many times the catalyst for its evolution. Bassoon music of the seventeenth through early twentieth centuries has defined much of the curricula for bassoon studies, and has established how we consider and experience the bassoon.
We experience, write, and consume music in vastly different ways than just a generation ago. Humans use technology for the most basic of tasks. Composers are using the technology of our generation to compose music that is a reflection of our time. This is a significant aspect of art music today, and bassoonists are barely participating in the creation of this new repertoire.
Performance practice often considers only the musical score; interactive electronic music regularly goes beyond that. The combination of technological challenges and inexperience can make approaching electroacoustic music a daunting and inaccessible type of music for bassoonists. These issues require a different language to the performance practice: one that addresses music, amplification, computer software, hardware, the collaboration between performer and technology, and often the performer and composer. The author discusses problems that performers face when rehearsing and performing interactive electroacoustic works for bassoon, and offers some solutions.

Identiferoai:union.ndltd.org:unt.edu/info:ark/67531/metadc849603
Date05 1900
CreatorsMasone, Jolene
ContributorsReynolds, Kathleen, Klein, Joseph, 1962-, McNutt, Elizabeth
PublisherUniversity of North Texas
Source SetsUniversity of North Texas
LanguageEnglish
Detected LanguageEnglish
TypeThesis or Dissertation
Formatvi, 93 pages : illustrations, Text
RightsPublic, Masone, Jolene, Copyright, Copyright is held by the author, unless otherwise noted. All rights reserved.
RelationRecital: March 12, 2012, ark:/67531/metadc171497, Recital: February 23, 2013, ark:/67531/metadc172110, Recital: November 19, 2013, ark:/67531/metadc917169

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