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Solo- and Chamber Music
Literature of the late 20th Century for Violin and Viola

Aiming at composition and high string students.

The students will be introduced to compositions by John Cage, Marko Ciciliani, Burkhard Friedrich, Nicolaus A. Huber, Jeff Kowalkowski, Roger Reynolds, Helmut Lachenmann and Manfred Stahnke to display different playing techniques and compositoral means:

- new instrumental techniques and examples of how composers have been using them

- Co-creating / chance composition:a challenge for interpreters and composers

- scordatura: advantages - problems, notation, characteristics of sound

- quater tones:

  • as an harmonic field
  • building a structure within a sound- or noise family
  • for creating special sonoric colours

- harmonics: qualities and peculiarities of natural harmonics and artificial harmonics

- the timbre and characteristics of the viola: register, colours, sonority, negotiability, mensura in comparison to the violin

- how to notate:

  • space notation
  • scordatura
  • quater tones
  • harmonics

- DO’s and DON’T S:

  • for composers
  • for interpreters
  • on stage

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