Jones, Gabriel Jimi (2022) ‘Irrational Nuances’: Expression, Interpretation, and Performer Agency in Stockhausen’s Klavierstücke. PhD thesis, University of Leeds.
Abstract
The performance practice of European serial music has long been misunderstood. This thesis uses Stockhausen’s Klavierstück I (1952–53), Klavierstück VII (1954–55), and Klavierstück X (1954/1961) as a lens through which to view the realities of this practice. My hybrid, practice-based methodology involves close contextual analysis of the affordances of the scores, empirical and qualitative performance analysis of the now significant corpus of recordings, and the generation of multiple new versions of the pieces. These experimental versions, documented via studio recordings, are inspired by the findings of my performance analysis and facilitated by the same empirical means, offering proof of concept for ‘performance analysis and performance’ as a new field of musicological research.
The findings of these interactive processes are used to extend M. J. Grant’s view of serial aesthetics and to provide a practical basis for what she calls ‘serial listening’; to assess the performance implications and long-term outcomes of Stockhausen’s 1950s temporal theory; to interrogate the nature of expression and interpretation in New Music; and to promote understanding of the musical work as fundamentally polyvalent, contingent on both acts of performance, and the various modes of appreciation and perception with which they are associated.
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Supervisors: | Iddon, Martin and Windsor, Luke |
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Keywords: | Stockhausen; Klavierstücke; Serial Music; Darmstadt; Piano Music; Performance Analysis; Practice Research; Hermeneutics; Analysis; Affordance; Interpretation; Expression; Performer Agency |
Awarding institution: | University of Leeds |
Academic Units: | The University of Leeds > Faculty of Arts, Humanities and Cultures (Leeds) > School of Music (Leeds) |
Identification Number/EthosID: | uk.bl.ethos.868445 |
Depositing User: | Mr Gabriel Jones |
Date Deposited: | 23 Nov 2022 16:25 |
Last Modified: | 11 Jan 2023 15:02 |
Open Archives Initiative ID (OAI ID): | oai:etheses.whiterose.ac.uk:31410 |
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