"The Western musical canon came about not merely……" — Brian Ferneyhough
"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."
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35 Quotes by Brian Ferneyhough
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Hence my obstinate emphasis on stylistic continuity from work to work rather than specific sibling relationships between the individual work…
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If the work of art is to continue pursuing the vision of both being in and of the world but…
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What makes a specific quality or quantity of innovation retain its intense newness over the years?
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If nothing is at risk, nothing is established.
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Questioning the nature and implications of liminal instances necessarily involves failure, if only in the specifically technical sense of entering…
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In my model, important interference phenomena arise when individual strata come into contact. These chaotic fluctuations are, I suppose, what…
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There would seem to be a limit, even for an art preoccupied with boundaries and transgressions, beyond which a work…
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When I left Europe in 1987 I did so with the thought that my relevance as a composition teacher would…
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Sometimes one can be so closely involved with things that the larger context is lost to view.
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Actually, most things I say in public lead more or less directly to my own compositional practice, so I should…
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Naturally enough, I couldn't have foreseen the vast sea change which has come upon that scene as a result of…
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