“The Western musical canon came about not merely by accumulation, but by opposition and subversion, both to the ruling powers on whom composers depended for their livelihoods and to other musics.” WesternMusicalOppositionComposerRulingAccumulationLivelihoodCanonSubversion Author:Brian Ferneyhough
“I frequently compose out the entire metric structure of a piece in modified cyclic form, where each cyclic revolution undergoes some form of 'variation' much as if measure lengths were concrete musical 'material.'” IfsFormPiecesMaterialsRevolutionStructureMusicalLengthConcreteVariationMetricsGmos Author:Brian Ferneyhough
