"Searched music"
- piano miniatures as avenues of self-discovery:
- Boulez, Bartók, Schoenberg, Kurtág – experiments, sketches
- Janáček, Schumann, Mompou – intimacy in microcosm, reaching for innermost sentiment
- Ligeti, Musica ricercata, literally "searched music"/"found music"; striving for the creation of an Ur-self/Ur-language
- Lachenmann (Ein Kinderspiel): composition as self-discovery; one must approach new frontiers of self in each piece, poetry of searching
- Ein Kinderspiel both as "music for children"/"child's play", but also a "going back to the sandbox" approach to composition, invention of idiosyncratic approach to the piano
- Lachenmann (Ein Kinderspiel): composition as self-discovery; one must approach new frontiers of self in each piece, poetry of searching
- form of ricercar – "searching" for key
- Bach, Ricercars from the Musical Offering
- Beethoven, String Quartet in B-flat (Op. 18/6), Mvt. 4 "La Malinconia", long searching introduction
- Mozart, "Dissonance" quartet opening (arrival in C major)
- other "searching music"
- Joni Mitchell (Blue, Hejira; "All I Want," "This Flight Tonight," "Amelia", "Hejira", "Let the Wind Carry Me")
- Björk, "Hunter" ("if travel is searching / home what's been found / i'm not stopping / i'm going hunting")
- Andrew Norman, "Try" (trial-and-error as a form)