This is a forum for all forms of music received and appropriated as “modern” in any location around the globe, crossing the boundaries of post/tonality. The focus is primarily but not exclusively on art, avant-garde, experimental, and modernist music, by global (African, Middle Eastern, Central/ South/ Southeast/ East Asian, Latin American, Australasian etc.) composers, minority composers from the West, and composers from the peripheries of Europe and North America.
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Featuring posts on music of the following composers from Indonesia, Japan, China, Brazil, Denmark, and the US:
César Guerra-Peixe (Brazil), Trio (1960) (author: Frederico Barros, Federal University of Rio de Janeiro) Guerra-Peixe’s Academic Trio
Hale Smith (US), Three Brevities for Solo Flute (1969) (author: Megan Lyons, Unive…[Read more]Gavin Lee wrote a new post Guerra-Peixe’s Academic Trio in the group
Global Musical Modernisms: on Humanities Commons 3 months, 2 weeks agoBy Frederico Barros
The year was 1960 and Brazilian composer César Guerra-Peixe submitted his Trio, for violin, cello and piano to a contest held by the Brazilian Ministry of Education’s radio station. Cli […]
Gavin Lee wrote a new post Hale to the King: “Three Brevities for Solo Flute” by Hale Smith in the group
Global Musical Modernisms: on Humanities Commons 3 months, 2 weeks agoBy Megan Lyons
If one were asked to name a prolific atonal composer, the answers would likely include Arnold Schoenberg, Anton Webern, or Alban Berg; an unlikely answer would be Hale Smith. Growing up, […]
Gavin Lee wrote a new post Per Nørgård’s Two-Tone Infinity Series in “Wie Ein Kind” (1979-80) in the group
Global Musical Modernisms: on Humanities Commons 3 months, 2 weeks agoBy Paul David Flood
When Danish composer Per Nørgård discovered the art of the schizophrenic Swiss painter Adolf Wölfli at an outsider art exhibit in 1979, he was struck by the fractal construction of these pa […]
Shin Kang Lee wrote a new post Rahayu Supanggah’s “Paragraph” and the Problems of Intercultural Collaborations in the group
Global Musical Modernisms: on Humanities Commons 3 months, 2 weeks agoBy Jay M. Arms
The 1986 First International Gamelan Festival and Symposium (Expo ’86) was a catalytic event in the globalization of Indonesian gamelan music. Though gamelan ensembles had already been e […]
Gavin Lee edited the post Jōji Yuasa – Cosmos Haptic for piano (1957) in the group
Global Musical Modernisms: on Humanities Commons 4 months, 2 weeks agoBy Ron Squibbs
Jōji Yuasa (b. 1929) is one of the most important Japanese composers of the second half of the twentieth century and the early part of the twenty-first century. Along with his compatriot, Tōru Takemitsu (1930-96), Yuasa was a member of Jikken Kōbō (The Experimental Workshop), an interdisciplinary group of composers, artists, and…[Read more]
Gavin Lee wrote a new post Whose Authorship? Authenticity in Chinese Popular Music under Global Modernism in the group
Global Musical Modernisms: on Humanities Commons 4 months, 2 weeks agoBy Ya-Hui Cheng
In his discussion of literary forms during the period of global modernism, Ramazani (2016) argued that the commonly used scheme of foreign form and local content (abbr. FFLC) neglected t […]
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Global Musical Modernisms: on Humanities Commons 4 months, 3 weeks agoBy Tomoko Deguchi
This blog post is the first of multiple posts related to the opera Matsukaze (2010) by the Japanese composer Toshio Hosokawa (b. 1955).
During the summer of 2019, Gavin Lee, Ya-hui Cheng, and I led an online seminar in which we explored the concepts of “tradition,” “form,” and “copy” reconceptualized in global modernism[Read more]Anton Vishio edited the doc BIBLIOGRAPHY in the group
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Global Musical Modernisms on Humanities Commons 9 months, 2 weeks agoIn the first decade of the twenty-first century, a young generation of Syrian experimental composers conceived a space for musiqa mu‘asira, or contemporary art music. Informed by debates on critical aesthetics, modernity, and subjectivity in the Arab world and beyond, these composers drew on particular compositional devices and techniques to m…[Read more]
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Global Musical Modernisms on Humanities Commons 10 months agoIn a short form answer, by administering some realistic thought behind what does it mean to be modern. I have deliberated about what does being a ‘modern’ composer mean. A small consensus I have come to is that now that all of our musical options are available, the way forward is not directly linked to a particular genre, rather cross-pollination…[Read more]
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