The Musical Body: Devising a choreo-musical interpretation for the work Tierkreis (1974-75) by Karlheinz Stockhausen

In this chapter the authors explore a practice-led approach to understanding the role of the body in music performance.

Many writers have discussed the body in music performance, in improvised music, as well as in electronic music. In this chapter the authors offer new modalities of reflection on the musical body in the interpretation of existing contemporary repertoire. Specifically, the authors discuss a re-interpretation of German composer Karlheinz Stockhausen's musical work 'Tierkreis'. Through the development of a specifically physical approach to the performance, the authors investigate the intrinsic relationship between the body and the music and point to an under-explored modality, which is not a musical choreography, but a choreography that is shaped through the musical body itself. It is a modality in which music itself propels forward choreographic ideas, the body becoming the driving force behind musical interpretation. The authors' thinking is influenced by Susan Kozel’s understanding of performance as an ecosystem (Kozel 2007) and framed within a subjective account of musical embodiment.

By merging theory with praxis the authors offer a deeper understanding of the role of the body in music performance and consider how such contributions might lead to new and exciting interpretive frameworks for existing musical repertoires.

Du rôle de l'interprète-chercheur en création et re-création musicale : théories, modèles et réalisations d'après les cas de Kathinkas Gesang (1983-1984) de Karlheinz Stockhausen et de La Machi (2007-2011) d'Analía Llugdar

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O cálculo e a invenção na poética de Stockhausen

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Em busca do som: a música de Karlheinz Stockhausen nos anos 1950

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Johannes Brahms, Julius Stockhausen, Doppelbildnis

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Clara Stockhausen, Ganzfigurbildnis

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Clara Stockhausen, Hüftbild

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Margarete Stockhausen-Schmuck, Brustbild

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Julius Stockhausen, Jenny Hahn, Doppelbildnis

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Julius Stockhausen, Brustbild

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Julius Stockhausen, Brustbild

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Julius Stockhausen, Brustbild, Profil

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Julius Stockhausen, Brustbild

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Julius Stockhausen, Brustbild

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Julius Stockhausen, Kniestück

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