Middle, broad music: incorporating popular song into a Western art music context

This artistic project – which, secondarily, is also a doctoral thesis – presents a compositional approach centered on the incorporation of popular song by a language which can be situated in a Western art music genealogy. It develops a hybrid framework that combines certain elements of the two musical traditions, generating a kind of middle music where deterritorialization is taken as a fundamental exploratory element and as a vehicle for the renewal of an artistic singularity – in this case, a particular and peculiar form of reterritorialization. Furthermore, it seeks to respond, in some way, to this project’s primary concern: the crucial issue of the century-old divide between Western art music and the broader audience.