Issue #154 Accessibility and Instrumentality: A Conversation

Accessibility and Instrumentality: A Conversation

Marianna Ritchey and Greg Stuart

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Pieter Claesz, Still Life With Musical Instruments on a Laid Table, 1623. License: Public domain.

Issue #154
May 2025










Notes
1

See .

2

Gregory William Stuart, “A Percussionist’s Practice” (DMA diss., UC San Diego, 2009).

3

Stuart, “A Percussionist’s Practice,” 15.

4

Stuart Paul Duncan, “To Infinity and Beyond: A Reflection on Notation, 1980s Darmstadt, and Interpretational Approaches to the Music of New Complexity,” Journal for New Music and Culture, no. 9 (2010).

5

Brian Ferneyhough, quoted in Duncan, “To Infinity and Beyond,” 9.

6

Anna Kornbluh, Immediacy: Or, The Style of Too Late Capitalism (Verso, 2024).

7

Steven Schick, “Developing an Interpretive Context: Learning Brian Ferneyhough's Bone Alphabet,” Perspectives of New Music 32, no. 1 (1994): 132.

8

“Music Notation Can’t Capture This ‘Quantum Rhythm,” interview with Christopher Cerrone, posted January 12, 2021 by David Bruce Composer, YouTube .

9

“Opera, Electronics, Rhythm, and Teaching (ft. Christopher Cerrone),” posted November 1, 2023 by the Saad Haddad Show, YouTube .

10

Anna Bull, “Equity in Music Education: Getting It Right: Why Classical Music’s ‘Pedagogy of Correction’ Is a Barrier to Equity,” Music Educators Journal 108, no. 3 (2022): 65–66.

This is an edited excerpt from Marianna Ritchey’s new book project Toward A Materialist Musicology: Academic Practice for the End of the World.