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Brass, Bach And Bells, Cedarville University
Challenges Of Technique And Interpretation In The Percussion Music Of Fredrik Andersson: A Performer’S Analysis, Kyle Manning Forsthoff
Challenges Of Technique And Interpretation In The Percussion Music Of Fredrik Andersson: A Performer’S Analysis, Kyle Manning Forsthoff
University of Kentucky Doctoral Dissertations
In the mid 1990s, Swedish composer Fredrik Andersson composed not everything which happens is in the newspaper (1993), the lonelyness of Santa Claus (1994), and imagine there was nothing (1996). All three pieces share a number of compositional and stylistic elements while emphasizing the capabilities of their respective instrumentations to create mysterious sonic worlds that are unique in the percussion idiom. By examining specific concerns of each piece in detail, an understanding of Andersson’s presentation of musical challenges will result. Acceptable solutions to such challenges will be examined and compared, based primarily on the author’s analysis and experience encompassing multiple …