Beyond the flat surface: Form and rhetoric in Machover, Hyla and Lindroth
Titel:
Beyond the flat surface: Form and rhetoric in Machover, Hyla and Lindroth
Auteur:
Wheeler, Scott
Verschenen in:
Contemporary music review
Paginering:
Jaargang 10 (1994) nr. 1 pagina's 75-100
Jaar:
1994
Inhoud:
This article examines the problems of creating extended concert works using the flat, uninflected materials of vernacular music. Three works are discussed: Tod Machover's Toward the Center, Lee Hyla's Pre-Pulse Suspended, and Scott Lindroth's Stomp. Machover's work combines elements of Baroque and rock music, especially as they intersect in the passacaglia that concludes Towards the Center. Hyla creates a harmonic scaffold to lend coherence to short-breathed material derived from Stefan Wolpe, bebop and punk rock. Lindroth adopts classical techniques resembling those of Beethoven to expand the scope of his minimalist-based material. For all three composers, the use of “accessible” techniques of overt pulse, diatonic collections and formal repetition is matched by the “high modernist” use of heterophony, dissonance and noise.
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