Payne, E orcid.org/0000-0003-2109-8126 (2021) Time and Ensemble Dynamics in Indeterminacy: John Cage’s Concert for Piano and Orchestra. In: Doffman, M, Payne, E and Young, T, (eds.) The Oxford Handbook of Time in Music. Oxford Handbooks . Oxford University Press , pp. 506-526. ISBN 9780190947279
Abstract
This chapter examines ensemble dynamics and time consciousness in indeterminate music, using John Cage’s Concert for Piano and Orchestra (1957–8) as a case study. Drawing on interviews and observational studies undertaken with the experimental music ensemble Apartment House, I examine the role of temporal indeterminacy in the socio-musical interactions that characterize performance, and its implications for the musicians’ experiences. In doing so, the chapter makes a broader contribution in its consideration of the ways in which issues of authorship and authority are negotiated in such temporal interactions, and how the dynamics of these negotiations present a sociality based on a ‘separate togetherness’, whereby performers play together (out of time) with one another.
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Copyright, Publisher and Additional Information: | © Oxford University Press 2022. Reproduced in accordance with the publisher's self-archiving policy. |
Keywords: | John Cage; Conductor; Indeterminacy; Time; Temporality; Ensemble dynamics; Sociality |
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Institution: | The University of Leeds |
Academic Units: | The University of Leeds > Faculty of Arts, Humanities and Cultures (Leeds) > School of Music (Leeds) |
Funding Information: | Funder Grant number AHRC (Arts & Humanities Research Council) AH/M008444/1 |
Depositing User: | Symplectic Publications |
Date Deposited: | 10 Dec 2021 14:46 |
Last Modified: | 08 Dec 2023 01:13 |
Status: | Published |
Publisher: | Oxford University Press |
Series Name: | Oxford Handbooks |
Identification Number: | 10.1093/oxfordhb/9780190947279.013.17 |
Open Archives Initiative ID (OAI ID): | oai:eprints.whiterose.ac.uk:176380 |