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Temporality in music – slowing down and fast forward

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The Law of Ruins in Music
Temporality in music – slowing down and fast forward

The Law of Ruins in Music

Temporality in music – slowing down and fast forward

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Material and form – "Give us a form, and we’ll find the material."
Temporality in music – slowing down and fast forward
The correspondence between Heiner Müller and Pierre Boulez 1993-1995
The impossibility of composing the Fall of Troy, and the chance of a clean slate
The last meeting in person and Müller’s plans to remake the myth of the Atridae
The law of ruins in music – the siege in Vienna in 1945
The purpose of orchestra groups – The orchestra as reconstructed ruin
What’s left of music in the next century – Palestrina as half time and new formats of composition

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