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Bernhard Lang

Critical Guides to Contemporary Composers

Av Christine Dysers

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Bernhard Lang: Critical Guides to Contemporary Composers offers a critical guide and introduction to the work of Austrian composer Bernhard Lang (b. 1957). It identifies the phenomenon of repetition as a central concern in Lang’s thinking and making. The composer’s artistic practice is identified as one of ‘loop aesthetics’: a creative poetics in which repetition serves not only as methodology, but also as material, language, and subject matter.The book is structured around the four central thematic nodes of philosophy, music, theatre, and politics. After introducing Lang as a composer whose work is thoroughly influenced by philosophical thought, the book develops a typology of musical repetition as it is explored and activated in Lang’s oeuvre.Pointing towards the several repetitions within the performance of Lang’s works, the book explores the heavily trans-medial nature of the repeat across domains such as literature, dance, and theatre. Finally, the book investigates Lang’s use of textual quotation and musical borrowing.Christine Dysers is a musicologist specialising in contemporary music aesthetics. Her research centres around repetition, politics, absence, the liminal, and the uncanny. This is the first full-length study of the works of Bernhard Lang and is a new volume in the Critical Guides to Contemporary Composers series from Intellect.
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Dr Christine Dysers is an Assistant Professor in Music at Aalborg University. Her research is broadly concerned with music after 1989, with a particular focus on the aesthetics of repetition, music and the political, and the notion of the uncanny. Christine holds a PhD in music from City, University of London. Previously, she was affiliated with Columbia University as a Fulbright Visiting Scholar (2021) and with Uppsala University as a postdoctoral researcher (2022-25).

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'This perceptive volume offers the first sustained, book-length treatment of Bernhard Lang that manages to be at once accessible and intellectually ambitious... Dysers’s prose is an exemplar of scholarly clarity: she avoids needless obscurantism while still conducting a theoretically informed inquiry. Her interdisciplinary horizon, which crosses philosophy, theatre studies, and political aesthetics, is not artificial but functional; it helps make Lang’s music intelligible on its own terms. Equally important, the work fills a genuine gap in contemporary musicology: Lang has been comparatively overlooked in English-language scholarship, and Dysers’s volume should act as a corrective and as an invitation to further research. This book will be of value to a diverse readership: composers and performers interested in process-based composition, and musicologists who wish to expand the analytic toolbox for contemporary repertories. Dysers gives us an interpretative vocabulary that will make listening to Lang’s music richer and more exacting. The book is a model of how to write about a living composer without resorting to hagiography, and it should be required reading for anyone seeking to understand the aesthetics, philosophy, and method behind one of Europe’s most inventive contemporary composers.'

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