Experimental and Postmodern music: Satie and beyond

City Lit

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Description

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    Course

  • Location

    London

  • Start date

    Different dates available

This course explores experimental and postmodern classical music practices and repertoire as well as looking at it’s influences and precedents. Tutor:Edward Henderson [external website].

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London
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Keeley Street, Covent Garden, WC2B 4BA

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Different dates availableEnrolment now open

About this course

- Chart the history of experimental and postmodern music from Satie to the present day.
- You will also learn some key concepts and aesthetic ideas associated with this kind of work as well as lots of repertoire
- Feel confident undertaking further reading and listening of related works
- Be able to critically engage with music journalism in this field (e.g. concert reviews, composer biographies).

Please bring a notebook and pen.
You may wish to buy some of the music or books recommended in class.

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Subjects

  • Music

Course programme

- Satie: Vexations and Sarabandes (repetition, simplicity and stasis)
- Cage: Indeterminacy, listening
- Materiality: Steve Reich’s tape pieces, John Oswald’s Plunderphonics
- Fluxus: Instructional scores and performance art
- Cardew: The Scratch Orchestra
- Music After the Internet: Jennifer Walshe’s New Discipline, Neo Hülcker’s ASMR.

The classes will be a mixture of lecturing, listening to music and discussion. Wider reading and research will be suggested but there will not be any compulsory ‘homework’. It is hoped that you will be interested to read a little about these works between classes.

Additional information

To find out more about music appreciation classes and to read some of our recommendations, please see the blog post Music history and appreciation: the 2018/19 programme which lists our full programme of classes listed by term, and by day of the week. You may then click on each title to read the full course outline. General information and advice on courses at City Lit is available from the Student Centre and Library on Monday to Friday from 12:00 – 19:00. See the course guide for term dates and further details

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Experimental and Postmodern music: Satie and beyond

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