Week 3

The New Complexity

Brian Ferneyhough, James Dillon


Arnold Whittall, “Theory, History, Analysis: Exploring Contemporary Complexity", Theory and Practice, 37/38 (2012-2013): 241-261.

 

Richard Toop, “Against a Theory of Musical (New) Complexity,” in Contemporary Music: Theoretical and Philosophical Perspectives, ed. Max Paddison and Irène Deliège (London: Routledge, 2016), 89–98.

 

Music

 

James Dillon, Sixth String Quartet

 

Brian Ferneyhough, Sixth String Quartet

 

Brian Ferneyhough, Cassandra's Dream Song

 

Extra readings

 

James Boros, “Why Complexity? (Part Two),” Perspectives of New Music, Winter, 1994, Vol. 32, No. 1 (Winter, 1994): 90- 101.

 

Stuart Paul Duncan, “Re-Complexifying the Function(s) of Notation in the Music of Brian Ferneyhough and the ‘New Complexity’,” Perspectives of New Music, Volume 48, Number 1, Winter 2010, pp. 136-172.

 

Brian Ferneyhough, “The Tactility of Time (Darmstadt Lecture 1988),” Perspectives of New Music, Vol. 31, No. 1. (Winter, 1993), pp. 20-30.

 

Brian Ferneyhough, “Form-Figure-Style: An Intermediate Assessment,” Perspectives of New Music, Vol. 31, No. 1. (Winter, 1993), pp. 32-40.

 

Steven Schick, “Developing an Interpretive Context: Learning Brian Ferneyhough's Bone Alphabet,” Perspectives of New Music, Winter, 1994, Vol. 32, No. 1 (Winter, 1994), pp. 132-153.