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The Music of Toru Takemitsu
Av Peter Burt, Arnold Whittall
Häftad, 2006
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426 kr
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Toru Takemitsu (1930-1996) was the best-known Japanese composer of his generation, bringing aspects of Eastern and Western traditions together, yet he remained something of an elusive figure. The composer's own commentaries about his music, poetic and philosophical in tone, have tended to deepen …
Experimental Music
Cage and Beyond
Av Michael Nyman, Arnold Whittall
Häftad, 1999
369 kr
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Michael Nyman's book is a first-hand account of experimental music from 1950 to 1970. First published in 1974, it has remained the classic text on a significant form of music making and composing which developed alongside, and partly in opposition to, the post-war modernist tradition of composers …
Four Musical Minimalists
La Monte Young, Terry Riley, Steve Reich, Philip Glass
Av Keith Potter
Häftad, 2002
449 kr
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The American composers la Monte Young, Terry Riley, Steve Reich and Philip Glass are widely regarded as pioneers of the aesthetic and the techniques of minimalism in musical composition during the 1960s and early 1970s. This book offers the most detailed account so far of their early works, putting …
The Stravinsky Legacy
Av Jonathan Cross, Arnold Whittall
Häftad, 2005
435 kr
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It has become increasingly apparent in recent decades that Stravinsky's music has had far-reaching influence on the development of music in our century. Stravinsky's modernist innovations - evident in such features as his music's discontinuity, its stasis, its ritualized anti-narrative, its novel …
The Music of Harrison Birtwistle
Av Robert Adlington, Arnold Whittall
Häftad, 2006
754 kr
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Harrison Birtwistle has become the most eminent and acclaimed of contemporary British composers. This book provides a comprehensive view of his large and varied output. It contains descriptions of every published work, and also of a number of withdrawn and unpublished pieces. Revealing light is …
The Music of Conlon Nancarrow
Häftad, 2006
468 kr
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The expatriate American experimentalist composer Conlon Nancarrow is increasingly recognized as having had one of the most innovative musical minds of the twentieth century. His music, almost all written for player piano, is the most rhythmically complex ever written, couched in intricate …
The Music and Thought of Michael Tippett
Modern Times and Metaphysics
Av David Clarke, Arnold Whittall
Häftad, 2006
687 kr
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Tippett is often cast as a composer with a strong visionary streak, but what does that mean for a twentieth-century artist? In this multi-faceted study, David Clarke explores Tippett's complex creative imagination - its dialogue between a romantic's aspirations to the ideal and absolute, and a …
Britten's Musical Language
Av Philip Rupprecht, Arnold Whittall
Häftad, 2006
502 kr
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Blending insights from linguistic and social theories of speech, ritual and narrative with music-analytic and historical criticism, Britten's Musical Language offers interesting perspectives on the composer's fusion of verbal and musical utterance in opera and song. It provides close interpretative …
Music and Ideology in Cold War Europe
Av Mark Carroll, Arnold Whittall
Häftad, 2006
770 kr
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This book places the radicalization of art music in early post-war France in its broader socio-cultural and political context. It pursues two general and intersecting lines of inquiry. The first details the stances towards musical conservatism and innovation adopted by cultural strategists …
The BBC and Ultra-Modern Music, 1922-1936
Shaping a Nation's Tastes
Häftad, 2007
720 kr
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This book, first published in 2000, examines the BBC's campaign to raise cultural awareness of British mass audiences in the early days of radio. As a specific case, it focuses on policies and plans behind transmissions of music by composers associated with Arnold Schoenberg's circle between 1922, …
Polish Music since Szymanowski
Häftad, 2008
935 kr
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This book looks at Polish music since 1937 and its interaction with political and cultural turmoil. In Part I musical developments are placed in the context of the socio-political upheavals of inter-war Poland, Nazi occupation, and the rise and fall of the Stalinist policy of socialist realism …
Satie the Composer
Häftad, 2008
502 kr
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Erik Satie remains one of the most bizarre figures in music history, yet everything he did has its own curious logic, once it can be perceived. In this important new study Dr Orledge reveals what made Satie 'tick' as a composer, dealing with every aspect of Satie's complex career and relating his …
Arnold Schoenberg
Notes, Sets, Forms
Häftad, 2009
586 kr
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In this thought provoking study, Silvina Milstein proposes a reconstruction of Schoenberg's conception of compositional process in his twelve-tone works, which challenges the prevalent view that this music is to be appropriately understood exclusively in terms of the new method. Her claim that in …
Edward Elgar, Modernist
Häftad, 2009
636 kr
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The first full-length analytical study of Edward Elgar's music, this book argues that Elgar was a modernist composer, and that his music constitutes a pessimistic twentieth-century assessment of the nature of human being. Focusing on Elgar's music rather than his life, Harper-Scott blends the …
Schoenberg's Musical Imagination
Häftad, 2009
838 kr
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No composer was more responsible for changes in the landscape of twentieth-century music than Arnold Schoenberg (1874-1951) and no other composer's music inspired a commensurate quantity and quality of technical description in the second half of the twentieth century. Yet there is still little …
Schoenberg's Transformation of Musical Language
Av Ethan Haimo
Häftad, 2009
754 kr
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Arnold Schoenberg is widely regarded as one of the most significant and innovative composers of the twentieth century. It is commonly assumed that Schoenberg's music divides into three periods: tonal, atonal, and serial. It is also assumed that Schoenberg's atonal music made a revolutionary break …
Musical Modernism at the Turn of the Twenty-First Century
Av David Metzer
Inbunden, 2009
1677 kr
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Providing an interesting approach to developments in modernist music - from 1980 onwards - this study also presents an intriguing perspective on the larger history of modernism. Far from being supplanted by a postmodern period, argues David Metzer, modernist idioms remain vital in the contemporary …
Fauré and French Musical Aesthetics
Av Carlo Caballero, Arnold Whittall
Häftad, 2004
955 kr
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This wide-ranging study of Gabriel Fauré and his contemporaries reclaims aesthetic categories crucial to French musical life in the early twentieth century. Its interrelated chapters treat the topics of sincerity, originality, novelty, self-renewal, homogeneity and religious belief in relation to …
The Twelve-Note Music of Anton Webern
Old Forms in a New Language
Av Kathryn Bailey, Arnold Whittall
Häftad, 2004
586 kr
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This important new study reassesses the position of Anton Webern in twentieth-century music. The twelve-note method of composition adopted by Anton Webern had profound consequences for composers of the next generation such as Stockhausen and Boulez, who saw Webern's music as revolutionary. In her …
The Music of Ruth Crawford Seeger
Av Joseph N. Straus, Arnold Whittall
Häftad, 2003
838 kr
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This book is the first full-length analytical study of the music of Ruth Crawford Seeger. Crawford was a pivotal figure in the American avant-garde, the so-called 'ultra-modern' movement of the 1920s and 1930s. In addition to her historical significance, as part of the first generation of American …
The Music of John Cage
Häftad, 1996
401 kr
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Although John Cage has been almost universally recognised as the leading figure of the post-war musical avant-garde, this is the first book to present a complete and coherent picture of Cage the composer. Providing a historical account of Cage's musical concerns and changing style, James Pritchett …
The Music and Thought of Michael Tippett
Modern Times and Metaphysics
Av David Clarke
Inbunden, 2001
1927 kr
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Tippett is often cast as a composer with a strong visionary streak, but what does that mean for a twentieth-century artist? In this multi-faceted study, David Clarke explores Tippett's complex creative imagination - its dialogue between a romantic's aspirations to the ideal and absolute, and a …
Serial Music, Serial Aesthetics
Compositional Theory in Post-War Europe
Av M. J. Grant, Arnold Whittall
Häftad, 2005
955 kr
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Serial music was one of the most important aesthetic movements to emerge in post-war Europe, but its uncompromising music and modernist aesthetic has often been misunderstood. This book focuses on the controversial journal die Reihe, whose major contributors included Stockhausen, Eimert, Pousseur, …
The Music of Harrison Birtwistle
Av Robert Adlington, Arnold Whittall
Inbunden, 2000
1693 kr
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Harrison Birtwistle has become the most eminent and acclaimed of contemporary British composers. This book provides a comprehensive view of his large and varied output. It contains descriptions of every published work, and also of a number of withdrawn and unpublished pieces. Revealing light is …
The BBC and Ultra-Modern Music, 1922-1936
Shaping a Nation's Tastes
Av Jennifer Doctor, Arnold Whittall
Inbunden, 2000
2130 kr
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This book, first published in 2000, examines the BBC's campaign to raise cultural awareness of British mass audiences in the early days of radio. As a specific case, it focuses on policies and plans behind transmissions of music by composers associated with Arnold Schoenberg's circle between 1922, …
Ligeti, Kurtág, and Hungarian Music during the Cold War
Inbunden, 2007
1677 kr
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Drawing on key elements from musical thought in inter-war Hungary, this 2007 book provides a unique perspective on the nation's musical heritage both inside and outside Hungary's borders during the Cold War. Although Ligeti became part of the Western avant-garde after he left Hungary in 1956, …
Schoenberg's Musical Imagination
Inbunden, 2007
1140 kr
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No composer was more responsible for changes in the landscape of twentieth-century music than Arnold Schoenberg (1874-1951) and no other composer's music inspired a commensurate quantity and quality of technical description in the second half of the twentieth century. Yet there is still little …
Edward Elgar, Modernist
Inbunden, 2006
1610 kr
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The first full-length analytical study of Edward Elgar's music, this book argues that Elgar was a modernist composer, and that his music constitutes a pessimistic twentieth-century assessment of the nature of human being. Focusing on Elgar's music rather than his life, Harper-Scott blends the …
Boulez, Music and Philosophy
Inbunden, 2010
1610 kr
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While acknowledging that Pierre Boulez is not a philosopher, and that he is wary of the potential misuse of philosophy with regard to music, this study investigates a series of philosophically charged terms and concepts which he uses in discussion of his music. Campbell examines significant …
The Music of Louis Andriessen
Inbunden, 2007
1677 kr
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For much of his career, the internationally known and still active Dutch composer Louis Andriessen has been understood as an iconoclast who challenged and resisted the musical establishment. This book explores his compositions as a case study for exploring the social and aesthetic implications of …
