Electroacoustics, Optics, and Microtonal Aesthetics in the Music of Georg Friedrich Haas
Amy Bauer,
Landon Morrison
Abstract:The music of Austrian composer Georg Friedrich Haas (b. 1953) is often aligned with the spectralist school of composition, although the composer resists descriptions of his approach that characterize it in terms of any one technical attribute, choosing instead to construct a heterogeneous microtonal aesthetic that cuts across conventional boundaries of genre and style.
Haas’s prodigious and varied output since the eighties treats instrumental sound-color and texture as central elements of musica… Show more
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