Publication details
Elementární rozvaha o grafické hudbě
| Title in English | Some Preliminary Reflections upon Graphic Notation |
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| Year of publication | 2020 |
| Type | Chapter of a book |
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| Description | When Marcel Duchamp got hold of a urinal, signed it on behalf of its manufacturer and sent it to an exhibition, he bade a definitive farewell to the world of art as it had been up until then. Music never had its Duchamp, and for all of its claims to being avant-garde, its self-extrication from tradition was more cosmetic. In essence it remained a matter of composition, the organisation of sonic material ac- cording to a specific order or plan that was written down as a score and then presented to performers for actualisation. Music resisted Dadaist nonsense, dreamy surrealism, concept and chance. For listeners it remained music, however it had been generated. Any intermedial elements were present in the score, which remained concealed from listeners. |
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