Robert Jamieson Crow

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Robert Jamieson Crow (* 1956 in London ) is a composer and musicologist of English origin who works in Austria . Crow writes instrumental and vocal music with a dramatic character. In addition to concert works, he has composed a number of educational works.

biography

Crow studied at various universities, including King's College (Cambridge), the Royal Academy of Music (London), the Mozarteum (Salzburg) and the University of Innsbruck . Until around 1990 he worked as a violinist in several ensembles that mainly interpret contemporary music . These include the Austrian Ensemble for New Music, the Ensemble of the 20th Century, the Almeida Ensemble (London), the Cardiff Laboratory Theater and Sándor Véghs Camerata Academica .

Publications

Books :

  • Robert Jamieson Crow: The "uncertainty of making up your mind": Musical confusions . innsbruck university press, Innsbruck 2009, ISBN 978-3-902571-61-8 .

Contributions to :

  • Institute for European Studies, Vienna 2001: Austro-German 'Neue Musik' and the English musical tradition .
  • Forum for the Perception of Contemporary Music, University of Graz 2001: Contradiction between traditional hearing models and work-specific structures as the source of the compositional idea ( available online, PDF ; in: Contributions to Electronic Music , Graz 2002).
  • German Society for Music Theory , Dresden 2001: Change in the theoretical understanding of modulation: a case study of the gap between modern harmony theory and its own subject . (In: Congress Report 2001)
  • European Analysis Conference, Bristol University 2002: Competition between structural and cognitive models as a source of compositonal idea in the music of the twentieth century .
  • Colloquium Horror Novitatis, Brno 2002: The Liberation of Sound as a Figure in 20th Century Music . (In: Congress Report 2004)
  • German Society for Music Theory, Munich 2002: Incompatible Logics: Thoughts on an unconvincing modulation . (In: Congress report 2002)
  • European Society for the Cognitive Sciences of Music, Graz 2004 (together with Manfred Bartmann ): Cognitive confusion as compositional subject matter: viewpoints from music theory and modern psychology .
  • Gustav Mahler Association, contribution to the program, Festival Wörthersee Classics, 2003: Mahler and the New .

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personal data
SURNAME Crow, Robert Jamieson
BRIEF DESCRIPTION English composer and musicologist who works in Austria
DATE OF BIRTH 1956
PLACE OF BIRTH London