Analysing Gudmundsen-Holmgreen: Strings, Structures and Symmetries - Daniel March
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Analysing Gudmundsen-Holmgreen: Strings, Structures and Symmetries
Pelle Gudmundsen-Holmgreen (1932-2016) was a major figure on the Danish New Music scene. Once seen as a key part of the so-called ‘Ny Enkelhed’ (‘New Simplicity’) in the 1960s and 1970s (along with composers such as Henning Christiansen, Hans Abrahamsen, and Ole Buck), his music reaches out far beyond such a label into a remarkable variety of different musical worlds; what remains, however, is the focus on clear, central ideas from which multiplicities can grow. In this seminar I will present some initial results of a process of analytical ‘close reading’ of a range of this music. Gudmundsen-Holmgreen wrote fourteen String Quartets, and it is on examples from this corpus that we will focus, exploring in particular the use of formal processes and pitch constraints.
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About the speaker
Daniel March is a Senior Lecturer in Music at the University of York, whose research involves developing music-analytical interpretations of compositions of the late twentieth and early twenty–first centuries. He has worked on, amongst others, the music of Steve Reich, Morton Feldman and Louis Andriessen, and published analytical discussions of works by Kaija Saariaho, Gerald Barry and Hans Abrahamsen. His current research is focussed on the recent outputs of composers who were at one time associated with various types of ‘New Simplicity’ in the 1960s, 70s and 80s.