Composing without requests ()

PhD dissertation

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Abstract

Is it possible to compose without making demands on the audience? Is it possible to compose without requests? I will try to answer this question by discussing a portfolio of musical compositions and proposing an inventory. The pieces presented are:

A symbiotic relationship between the portfolio and key concepts animates the whole commentary and shapes the framework within which each piece is presented. The systematisation of the concepts is exposed as an open inventory in the second chapter.