"ORESTEIA" In the postwar era, mathematically complex atonality became the default technique of academic composers.
He disdained the practice of serialism, with its familiar device, the twelve-tone row, which had been adopted as orthodoxy by so many composers — even by Stravinsky and Copland late in their careers, not to mention the academic composers at the major American universities.
While rock and rollers were using tape trickery for novelties -- early pop sampling, for instance, in Dickie Goodman's "flying saucer" comedy singles, with a deadpan interviewer answered by snippets of current hits -- academic composers and eccentric souls were devising all sorts of precedents.
One of the most notoriously abstruse academic composers of the twentieth century, Babbitt is about as far from the gleeful hyper-gloss of PC Music as you can get.
Years ahead of The Art of Noise or Mantronix, she became a sampling pioneer, at a time when very few women outside the realm of academic electronic composers were involved with cutting-edge music-making technology.
The Girls Day School Trustthethe UK's leading network of independent girls' schools, joined leading academics and composers in backing Ms McCabe's campaign.
Meyer may be particularly vulnerable in this regard, given his lack of academic credentials as a composer; in any case, he is typically understated about his composing ambitions.
In collaboration with composer and academic Robert Davidson – the man responsible for Julia Gillard's misogyny speech: the musical – we gathered together complaints and irritations regarding the imminent G20 conference, and set them to music in the grand tradition of complaints choirs.
And as the composer and academic Brian Inglis points out, their anthemic Hold On of 2012 "is entirely based on Handel's Eternal Source of Light Divine from the Birthday Ode for Queen Anne.
They describe themselves as today's Russian avant-garde, but they are in no sense rebels: they have inherited their seniors' commitment to old-fashioned academic training and despise composers who lack "technique".
