GATI FORUM: MUSIC, ART AND DANCE IN THE 20TH CENTURY
A talk by Dr Punita Singh
Sunday, November 16th 2008
Siddhartha Hall, Max Mueller Bhavan.
7pm
Free Entry
The 20th century provided a conducive backdrop for remarkable innovations in music, dance and the visual arts as constraints of content, form, structure and narrative were displaced by the use of elements not traditionally considered to be aesthetic or artistic. Experimentation with space and time, with texture, tonality, timbre and technology led to composers creating auditory works that paralleled 'modern' art movements such as impressionism, expressionism, fauvism, exoticism, evolving into postmodern artscapes that defied the very definition of what is construed as music or dance.
Using illustrative audio and visual examples, in this talk Dr Punita Singh will share observations and insights about some major developments in the history of western art music in relation to parallel trends in painting and dance.
Punita Singh is a musicologist, psychoacoustician and linguist by training. Currently based in New Delhi, she has taught at Washington University in the USA and McGill University in Canada. Besides lecturing on and conducting research on music, she also performs as a percussionist and has played with West African and flamenco dance ensembles.
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