Tomas löndahl älmhult
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Public defense: Tomas Löndahl
The dissertation begins at 1 pm in Lindgrensalen (A) with a conversation between Tomas Löndahl and the pianist / composer Johan Ullén. Johan Ullén then performs Ludwig van Beethoven's piano sonata in F minor op. 57 (“Appassionata”) based on the dissertation's artistic approach. The dissertation continues from 2 pm in Lingsalen (A).
You can also participate via Zoom from 1 pm.
The public defence will be held in Swedish.
More information about the thesis: The Changeability of Sounding Reality: Towards an Expanded Space for Interpretation
Opponent: Dr Johannes Landgren, Professor at the Royal College of Music, Stockholm
Grading Committee:
- Dr Marianne Baudouin Lie, Assistant Professor at Norwegian University of Science and Technology, Department of Music, Trondheim, Norway
- Dr Joel Eriksson, Senior lecturer in Music Theory, Academy of Music and teaterpjäs, University of Gothenburg
- Dr Sverker Jullander, professor emeritus in Musical Performance at the Department of Social Sciences, Technology and Arts, Luleå University of Technology
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Abstract
For artists, the impact of the symbols in a score on interpretational positions may on some occasions be experienced as problematic. This is especially the case for artists, experiencing the classical musical tradition to have an inhibitory influence on their performances. The aim of this dissertation is to investigate – within the field of notated western art music – the performing artist’s potential space for interpretation and its possibilities to expand. One prerequisite for the investigation is to explore how this space can be expanded through a relativization of the correlations between the musical work, the symbols of the score, and the sounding music. Different views on work concepts and on symbols are discussed and problematized, resulting in a formulated new approach to the score. Two series of experiments with works by the Swedish composer Ludvig Norman (–) were preceded by research on the context of the works, as well as by analyses of the notated musical parameters of the scores. The outcomes from these investigations, together with the new approaches towards the work concept and the notated symbols, formed the premisses
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The Changeability of Sounding Reality: Towards an Expanded Space for Interpretation
Abstract
For artists, the impact of the symbols in a score on interpretational positions may on some occasions be experienced as problematic. This is especially the case for artists, experiencing the classical musical tradition to have an inhibitory influence on their performances. The aim of this dissertation is to investigate – within the field of notated western art music – the performing artist’s potential space for interpretation and its possibilities to expand. One prerequisite for the investigation is to explore how this space can be expanded through a relativization of the correlations between the musical work, the symbols of the score, and the sounding music. Different views on work concepts and on symbols are discussed and problematized, resulting in a formulated new approach to the score. Two series of experiments with works by the Swedish composer Ludvig Norman (–) were preceded by research on the context of the works, as well as by analyses of the notated musical parameters of the scores. The outcomes from these investigations, together with the new approaches towards the work co