Research Catalog

Title

Performing Xenakis / translated, compiled, and edited by Sharon Kanach.

Publication

Hillsdale, N.Y. : Pendragon Press, c2010.

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Additional Authors

Kanach, Sharon E.

Description

xxiv, 412 p. : ill.; 24 cm.

Series Statement

• Iannis Xenakis series ; no. 2
• Xenakis, Iannis, 1922-2001. Iannis Xenakis series ; no. 2.

Subject

• Xenakis, Iannis, 1922-2001 > Criticism and interpretation
• Xenakis, Iannis, 1922-2001 > Performances

Note

• Includes list of works.

Bibliography (note)

• Includes bibliographical references and indexes.

Contents

Winds: Woodwinds and Brass -- Potent / Lori Freedman -- Performing Xenakis on Brass / Benny Sluchin -- Xenakis' wind Glissando writing; Appendix : Cenfrees Flute Solo / Wilfriedo Terrazas -- Keyboard: Piano, Organ and Harpsichord -- On Evryali / Marie-Francoise Buquet -- the Harpsichord according to Xenakis / Elisabeth Chojnacka -- Fragments on Gmeeoorh / Bernhard Haas -- On Herma, Erikhthon, and others / Claude Helffer -- Xenakis: Immediate and experimental / Yuji Takahashi -- The Olympian piano: Iannis Xenakis' Synphai / Stefanos Thomopoulos -- Conquering Goliath: preparing and performing Xenakis Keqrops / Roger Woodward -- Percussion -- On Psappha and Persephassa / Sylvio Gualda -- On Persephassa and the percussions of Strasbourg / Claude Ricou and Jean-Paul Bernard -- X is for Xenakis / Steven Schick -- Pity and fear: Iannis Xenakis' Psappha as Aristotelian tragedy / David Schotzko with T. Nikki Cesare -- Strings and voice -- Reflections on performing the string music of Iannis Xenakis / Irvine Arditti -- Theraps / Robert Black -- Mikka and Mikka S / Conrad Harris -- Second generation interpretation of Xenakis' String Quartets / Kevin McFarland -- Xenakis' gifts / Genevieve Renon -- Some vocal techniques used in Iannis Xenakis Nuits and Oresteia / Rachid Safir -- Xenakis an Ancient Greek born in the Twentieth Century / Rohan de Saram -- Singing Interpreting Xenakis / Spyros Sakkas -- Notes on working with Xenakis / Frances-Marie Uitti -- Ensemble and Orchestra -- On Dammerschein / Riccardo Schulz and Juan Pablo Izquierdo -- Conducting Xenakis' Orchestral music / Michel Tabachnik -- Notes on the interpretation of Iannis Xenakis Jonchaies / Arturo Tamayo -- Electronics -- Interpreting Xenakis Electro-acoustic music : La Legende d'Eer / Gerard Pape -- Performing the UPIC System of Iannis Xenakis / Peter Nelson -- Postface / Milan Kundera -- Appendix I. chronology of Iannis Xenakis' compositions and their premieres -- Appendix II. Index of proper names -- Index of Xenakis' works cited in text

Call Number

JME 12-790

ISBN

• 9781576471913
• 1576471918

LCCN

2010009505

OCLC

449894862

Title

Performing Xenakis / translated, compiled, and edited by Sharon Kanach.

Imprint

Hillsdale, N.Y. : Pendragon Press, c2010.

Series

Iannis Xenakis series ; no. 2

Xenakis, Iannis, 1922-2001. Iannis Xenakis series ; no. 2.

Bibliography

Includes bibliographical references and indexes.

Added Author

Kanach, Sharon E.

Research Call Number

JME 12-790