Tag Archive: classical crossover

My hardcover book about strategies and techniques of genre mixing has been published by the German SVH-Verlag. Order your printed copy from here, or download the Pdf version.   Analyses of chosen works from Gentle Giant, Liquid Tension Experiment, Kutiman, and of popular adaptations of Vivaldi´s “Four Seasons” help illuminate characteristics of different sub-categories of...

I successfully defended my PhD dissertation written at the University of Music and Performing Arts Vienna. In the theses titled “Crossing Over” I studied correspondences between composers’ communication strategies and composition methods in pop/classical genre-crossing works. What do genre-mixing composers intend to communicate when quoting elements of musical cultures with associations to extra-musical meanings like...