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Performing Musical Silence (2025)

Guy Livingston

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This dissertation considers performed silences in composed music and suggests that musicians often use markers to communicate the dimensions of silence. These markers may shape, summon, or impose silence. Markers are signals or cues that may be visible, audible, or multimodal. This research consists of an archive of examples from the author's pianistic practice, as well as three case studies drawn from works of Beethoven, Cage, and Antheil. Full title: "Performing Musical Silence: Markers, Gestures, and Embodiments"
typeresearch exposition
keywordssilence, absence, audience, performer, embodiment, gesture, Spaces in between, ma, markers, musical silence, absence art, Silent discourse, Silence perception, silenced narratives, stillness, john cage, Beethoven, George Antheil
date21/10/2024
published08/05/2025
last modified08/05/2025
statuspublished
share statuspublic
affiliationUniversity of Leiden (ACPA)
copyrightGuy Livingston
licenseAll rights reserved
languageEnglish
urlhttps://www.researchcatalogue.net/view/1712958/2780572
doihttps://doi.org/10.22501/acpa.1712958
published inAcademy of Creative and Performing Arts
portal issue2024. ACPA
external linkperformingsilence


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