I. The Orchestra With Electroacoustic Music - Literature, Interviews, and Analysis: II. Roots: a Composition for Orchestra and Two-Channel Recorded So
Abstract:Since its origins in the aristocratic European courts of the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries, the orchestra has held an eminent position in Western art music. Due to its sheer magnitude and its unparalleled sonic flexibility, skill in writing original and ambitious music for the orchestra is a common, if myopic, measure of the quality and relevance of a composer's output. The orchestra has maintained its esteem as the twenty-first century opens. Eighteen of the past twenty-five Pulitzer..