Book contents
- The Cambridge Companion to Composition
- Cambridge Companions to Music
- The Cambridge Companion to Composition
- Copyright page
- Dedication
- Contents
- Figures
- Tables
- Music Examples
- Contributors
- Introduction
- Part I Creative Processes
- Part II Techniques
- Part III Styles, Conventions, and Issues
- 12 Dots, Squiggles, and Words
- 13 Sonorities and Spectra
- 14 Electronic Composition
- 15 Transcultural Composing
- 16 Nothing New Under the Sun: Composition as Adaptation
- 17 Composition and Ecological Listening
- Part IV Building a Career
- Further Reading
- Index
17 - Composition and Ecological Listening
from Part III - Styles, Conventions, and Issues
Published online by Cambridge University Press: 25 May 2024
- The Cambridge Companion to Composition
- Cambridge Companions to Music
- The Cambridge Companion to Composition
- Copyright page
- Dedication
- Contents
- Figures
- Tables
- Music Examples
- Contributors
- Introduction
- Part I Creative Processes
- Part II Techniques
- Part III Styles, Conventions, and Issues
- 12 Dots, Squiggles, and Words
- 13 Sonorities and Spectra
- 14 Electronic Composition
- 15 Transcultural Composing
- 16 Nothing New Under the Sun: Composition as Adaptation
- 17 Composition and Ecological Listening
- Part IV Building a Career
- Further Reading
- Index
Summary
This chapter explores ways of thinking about ecology through the medium of composition, and how composing relates to the environments around us. It offers a methodological framework for composition that puts listening at the heart of a composer’s engagement with musical material and meaning making. Alongside the author’s examples there are a number of exercises and provocations to help developing one’s own approaches to composition.
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- The Cambridge Companion to Composition , pp. 270 - 284Publisher: Cambridge University PressPrint publication year: 2024