Book contents
- Avant-Garde on Record
- Avant-Garde on Record
- Copyright page
- Dedication
- Contents
- Figures
- Acknowledgements
- 1 Introduction
- 2 Ping-Pong and Its Discontents
- 3 Doubles, Rhymes and Groups in Stereo
- 4 Transnational Multiorchestralism
- 5 The Monumental Stereo of Son et Lumière
- 6 Phonographic Spaces: Circling San Marco, Navigating Niagara
- 7 Open Works Locked into Grooves
- Epilogue
- Bibliography
- Index
- Music Since 1900
7 - Open Works Locked into Grooves
Published online by Cambridge University Press: 05 January 2024
- Avant-Garde on Record
- Avant-Garde on Record
- Copyright page
- Dedication
- Contents
- Figures
- Acknowledgements
- 1 Introduction
- 2 Ping-Pong and Its Discontents
- 3 Doubles, Rhymes and Groups in Stereo
- 4 Transnational Multiorchestralism
- 5 The Monumental Stereo of Son et Lumière
- 6 Phonographic Spaces: Circling San Marco, Navigating Niagara
- 7 Open Works Locked into Grooves
- Epilogue
- Bibliography
- Index
- Music Since 1900
Summary
The 1950s and 1960s saw a profusion of avant-garde works that employ some degree of mobility, the best-known being Stockhausen’s Klavierstück XI and Boulez’s Piano Sonata No. 3. This chapter surveys discourse on indeterminacy, open works and mobility in order to test the hypothesis that the existence of recordings created a new ontology that allowed in part for mobile works to come on the scene. Since the work’s “essence” would henceforth be assured by recordings, scores were freed from their role as guarantors of a work’s ontology, allowing them to become more playful and open-ended. This chapter focuses on the way contemporary listeners may have understood this connection. In this light, mobile works can be viewed as a “phonograph effect” (in Mark Katz’s sense), and some of the basic historiographic presuppositions about musical modernism, one that sees an autonomous avant-garde isolated from a burgeoning record industry, are thereby interrogated.
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- Avant-Garde on RecordMusical Responses to Stereos, pp. 238 - 274Publisher: Cambridge University PressPrint publication year: 2023