Download or read book G rard Grisey and Spectral Music written by Liam Cagney and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 2023-11-30 with total page 315 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The first in-depth historical overview of how spectral music arose in France: the most influential European compositional movement of the past fifty years.
Download or read book G rard Grisey and Spectral Music written by Liam Cagney and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 2023-11-30 with total page 315 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The first in-depth historical overview of spectral music, which is widely regarded, alongside minimalism, as one of the two most influential compositional movements of the last fifty years. Charting spectral music's development in France from 1972 to 1982, this ground-breaking study establishes how spectral music's innovations combined existing techniques from post-war music with the use of information technology. The first section focuses on Gérard Grisey, showing how he creatively developed techniques from Messiaen, Xenakis, Ligeti, Stockhausen and Boulez towards a distinctive style of music based on groups of sounds mutating in time. The second section shows how a wider generation of young composers centred on the Parisian collective L'Itinéraire developed a common vision of music embracing seismic developments in in psychoacoustics and computer sound synthesis. Framed against institutional and political developments in France, spectral music is shown as at once an inventive artistic response to the information age and a continuation of the French colouristic tradition.
Download or read book Spectral Music written by Joshua Fineberg and published by . This book was released on 2000 with total page 188 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book The Life and Music of G rard Grisey written by Jeffrey Arlo Brown and published by Boydell & Brewer. This book was released on 2023 with total page 319 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The first biography of the composer Gérard Grisey shows how the artist's sensuality and rigor came together to form the musical genre known as spectralism. The French composer Gérard Grisey (1946-98) changed the course of music history with his small but potent output. Labeled "spectral" music, his compositions looked to the physics of sound and the capacities of human perception for material and inspiration. Born in Belfort, Grisey was the son of a French Resistance veteran turned car mechanic and a homemaker. His first instrument was as humble as his background: the accordion. But Grisey rose from his provincial background to the heights of his profession. This first biography of Grisey traces his journey from rigid Catholicism to broader mysticism; his studies in Olivier Messiaen's legendary composition class; the development of the first "spectral" works in the 1970s; Grisey's stint teaching at the University of California at Berkeley, during which he suffered severe depression; the development of his late, post-spectral style; and his untimely death at the age of 52, shortly after completing his masterpiece on death, the Four Songs for Crossing the Threshold. Drawing on original archival research, interviews with more than fifty of Grisey's colleagues, friends, and lovers, and the study of previously overlooked sketches, this biography shows the delirium and form at the heart of Grisey's life and art--the structured sensuality that allowed him to revolutionize the music of the twentieth century.
Download or read book The Spectral Piano written by Marilyn Nonken and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 2014-03-13 with total page 209 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Marilyn Nonken finds precedent in the works of pianist-composers Liszt, Scriabin and Debussy for spectral attitudes towards the musical experience.
Download or read book Spectral Music and G rard Grisey s Vortex Temporum I and II written by Ching-Yi Wang and published by . This book was released on 2012 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This dissertation provides aesthetic and historical perspectives of the French spectral music and offers an analysis of Gérard Grisey's late work Vortex Temporum I and II, which was written in 1994-96 and is dedicated to Gérard Zinsstag, Salvatore Sciarrino, and Helmut Lachenmann. Chapter One is an introduction to the spectral movement, including the characteristics of spectral music and the biographies of three generations of select spectralists. The remainder of this chapter demonstrates certain essential techniques that influence the musical style of Grisey. A brief introduction to the life of Grisey and some trademarks of Grisey's oeuvres are presented in Chapter Two. Time concepts, an important facet of Grisey's work in general, indicated in Grisey's essay "Tempus ex Machina" is also outlined here. In Chapter Three, I present an analysis of the first and second movements of Vortex Temporum, a composition for chamber ensemble, consisting of six players: piano, flute (picc/alto/C/bass), Bb clarinet (bass clarinet), violin, viola, and violoncello. In my analysis, I look at aspects of the work such as its basis in various waveforms and how contrasts are formed through use of register, and Grisey's innovative approach to the temporal parameter. I also investigate the convergence of Grisey's spectral attitude and traditional Western classical music in the analysis.
Download or read book Classical Music Why Bother written by Joshua Fineberg and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2013-10-28 with total page 182 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The famous quip I don't know much about art, but I know what I like sums up many people's ideas about how to judge a work of art; but there are inherent limitations if we rely on immediate impressions in judging what should be enduring products of our culture. While some might criticize this as a return to elitism, Joshua Fineberg argues that without some way of determining intrinsic value, there can be no movement forward for creators or their audience. He draws on contemporary thought about Design space and Universal Grammar to show how intrinsic values can be rediscovered. He then looks at the importance of multimedia in allowing multiple points of entry for the discovering of new works, finally showing how the composer can Design music for human beings--creating a kind of art that can preserve the research agenda of conceptual work without renouncing the understanding of human listeners and performers embodied by craft. Classical Music: Why Bother? will intrigue all listeners of contemporary music, students of musical thought, and composers-but it will also interest students of contemporary aesthetics. It answers the age-old question How can we bring a new audience to contemporary art? - and challenges both the creators and their audience to broaden their ideas about what is valuable and lasting in today's culture.
Download or read book G rard Grisey s Quatre Chants Pour Franchir Le Seuil Spectral Music on the Threshold Volume II written by Timothy R. Sullivan and published by . This book was released on 2008 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Thomas Ad s Studies written by Edward Venn and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 2021-11-25 with total page 337 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Thomas Adès is a dominant force in contemporary music, whose work attracts significant attention and acclaim, and has been performed by many renowned ensembles. This volume – the first to present a range of scholarly essays on every aspect of Adès's music – offers authoritative accounts of Adès's major compositions from a variety of analytical, critical, cultural and historical perspectives. The opening chapters focus on Adès's earlier music, offering close readings of key works. Further essays focus on his engagement with forms and instrumental genres. The final chapters turn to Adès's texted music and highlight how themes introduced in earlier chapters cut across Adès's entire output. Richly illustrated with musical examples and supported by further online material, this book provides a multi-faceted portrait of Adès's work that opens up new ways of thinking about, and engaging with, his music.
Download or read book Expanding the Horizon of Electroacoustic Music Analysis written by Simon Emmerson and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 2016-04-07 with total page 419 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A state-of-the-art overview of the analysis of electroacoustic music, which includes discussions of a wide range of works.
Download or read book Kaija Saariaho written by Tim Howell and published by Ashgate Publishing, Ltd.. This book was released on 2011 with total page 262 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Kaija Saariaho is internationally recognized as a leading figure in contemporary music, enjoying a well-deserved reputation for works that are both creatively original and of considerable appeal. Uncovering the compositional, historical, cultural and sociological issues that have resulted in such critical acclaim lies at the heart of this collection of essays.
Download or read book The Normativity of Musical Works A Philosophical Inquiry written by Alessandro Arbo and published by BRILL. This book was released on 2021-05-25 with total page 141 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The essay advocates a theory of the musical work as a “social object” which is based on a trace informed by a normative value. Such a normativity is explored in relation to three ways of fixing the trace: orality, notation and phonography.
Download or read book Sounds of the Underground written by Stephen Graham and published by University of Michigan Press. This book was released on 2016-04 with total page 305 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The first scholarly examination of underground music in the digital age
Download or read book Western Music and Its Others written by Georgina Born and published by Univ of California Press. This book was released on 2000 with total page 374 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "[Western Music and Its Others] will be taken as an important book signalling a new turn within the field. It takes the best features of traditional, rigorous scholarship and brings these to bear upon contemporary, more speculative questions. The level of theoretical sophistication is high. The studies within it are polemical and timely and of lasting scholarly value."--Will Straw, co-editor of Theory Rules: Art as Theory/ Theory and Art "The great value of this collection lies in the wealth of questions that it raises--questions that together crystallize the recent concerns of musicology with force and clarity. But it also lies in the authors' resistance to the easy 'postmodernist' answers that threaten to turn new musicology prematurely grey. The editors' comprehensive, intellectually adventurous introduction exemplifies the sort of eager yet properly skeptical receptivity to scholarly innovation that fosters lasting disciplinary reform. It alone is worth the price of the book." --Richard Taruskin, author of Stravinsky and the Russian Traditions: A Biography of the Works Through " Mavra" "When cultural-studies methods first appeared in musicology 15 years ago, they triggered a storm of polemics that sometimes overshadowed the important issues being raised. As the canon wars recede, however, scholars are finding it possible to focus on the concerns that led them to cultural criticism in the first place: the study of music and its political meanings. Western Music and Its Others brings together leading musicologists, ethnomusicologists, and specialists in film and popular music to explore the ways European and North American musicians have drawn on or identified themselves in tension with the musical practices of Others. In a series of essays ranging from examination of the Orientalist tropes of early 20th-century Modernists to the tangled claims for ownership in today's World Music, the authors in this collection greatly advance both our knowledge of specific case studies and our intellectual awareness of the complexity and urgency of these problems. A timely intervention that should help push music studies to the next level." --Susan McClary, author of Conventional Wisdom: The Content of Musical Form (2000) "This collection provides a sophisticated model for using theory to interrogate music and music to interrogate theory. The essays both take up and challenge the dominance of notions of representation in cultural theory as they explore the relevance of the concepts of hybridity and otherness for contemporary art music. Sophisticated theory, erudite scholarship and a very real appreciation for the specificities of music make this a powerful and important addition to our understanding of both culture and music." --Lawrence Grossberg, author of Dancing in Spite of Myself
Download or read book Sound Structure in Music written by Robert Erickson and published by Univ of California Press. This book was released on 1975-01-01 with total page 232 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Sketch of a New Esthetic of Music written by Ferruccio Busoni and published by New York : G. Schirmer. This book was released on 1911 with total page 62 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Sketch of a New Esthetic of Music by Theodore Baker Ferruccio Busoni, first published in 1911, is a rare manuscript, the original residing in one of the great libraries of the world. This book is a reproduction of that original, which has been scanned and cleaned by state-of-the-art publishing tools for better readability and enhanced appreciation. Restoration Editors' mission is to bring long out of print manuscripts back to life. Some smudges, annotations or unclear text may still exist, due to permanent damage to the original work. We believe the literary significance of the text justifies offering this reproduction, allowing a new generation to appreciate it.
Download or read book Spectral Music written by Joshua Fineberg and published by . This book was released on 2000 with total page 172 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
