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Listening Beyond the Score: Towards an Integrated Analytical Model for Contemporary Instrumental Music

This project seeks to integrate two musical analytical approaches that are often considered separate: historical-analytical enquiries into compositional details and aural-analytical enquiries into the sound reality. Existing research on contemporary music usually focuses on analyses of scores. Despite the fact that we cannot experience music as notated in the score, listening has been seriously neglected in the field of music analysis. To what extent is an underlying musical system created by the composer perceived in the acoustic reality? Addressing this question, I will develop a new analytical method based upon listening that complements the traditional approach of score- and sketch-based analysis, whilst simultaneously exploring the potential utility of recently developed digital sound analysis tools. The outcomes will provide 1. a methodological breakthrough for analysing spatiotemporal complexities in contemporary musical practices and 2. a theoretical model of the interactivity between aural-textual resources, computer-aided analysis and human listening.
Date:15 Oct 2021 →  14 Oct 2022
Keywords:music analysis, contemporary music, listening
Disciplines:Musicology and ethnomusicology