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The musical language of Pierre Boulez : writings and compositions
- Title
- The musical language of Pierre Boulez : writings and compositions / Jonathan Goldman.
- Author
- Goldman, Jonathan, 1972-
- Publication
- Cambridge, UK ; New York : Cambridge University Press, 2011.
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- Description
- xxii, 244 p. : ill.; 26 cm.
- Series Statement
- Music since 1900
- Uniform Title
- Music since 1900.
- Subjects
- Bibliography (note)
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- Contents
- Introduction. Boulez's compositional path ; Sources for theories of musical form ; Serialism as musical structuralism -- Part I. Form as opposition in the writings of Pierre Boulez ; Writings from the first period : serialist doctrine, the open work and strategies of rhetorical displacement ; A portrait of Webern, a self-portrait of Boulez ; The second cantata ; Chronology of writings on Webern and key concepts ; Webern vs. Debussy : observable correspondence or imagined encounter ; The turn towards perception ; Form, thematicism and perceptual categories in the writings from the 1970s to the present ; Lessons for all or personal incantation ; The basic elements of musical language ; The new concepts ; Concept of form in Leçons de musique ; Lessons of Leçons -- Part II. Form as opposition in selected works by Pierre Boulez : Analysis by, of, in and according to Boulez ; Boulezian motivations for analysing Boulez ; False or 'mutilating' analysis ; Boulez analyses The rite of spring ; Boulez for the analyst : the didactic work ; Rituel and the architecture of antiphony ; Presentation ; Form ; Pitch in the Repons ; Structure of verses ; Dérive 1 and harmonic control ; Presentation ; Form ; Six harmonic fields ; Anticipations, suspensions and the recovery of classical categories ; Durations, densities and note hierarchies ; Mémoriale and polar mechanics ; Presentation ; Themes in Mémoriale ; Passage from clear to veiled timbre ; Paradigmatic analysis ; Polar notes ; Analysis of pitch content ; Durations ; Unplugged electronics ; Resonator effects ; Delay/echo effects ; Geometric orchestration ; Rhythmic canons ; Anthèmes and virtual thematics ; Presentation ; The virtual theme ; Discontinuities : 'characters', rhythmic canons and non-retrogradable rhythms ; Passage from Anthèmes 1 to Anthèmes 2 ; Incises and the play of recognition and surprise ; Presentation ; Annunciatory opening ; Treslent sections ; A paradigmatic-syntagmatic approach to Section I, Prestissimo ; Boulezian form in theory and practice ; From system to idea : systematic obscuring ; Formal schemas in a comparative approach.
- Call Number
- JMF 11-211
- ISBN
- 9780521514903 (hardback)
- 0521514908 (hardback)
- LCCN
- 2010041734
- OCLC
- 667610213
- Author
- Goldman, Jonathan, 1972-
- Title
- The musical language of Pierre Boulez : writings and compositions / Jonathan Goldman.
- Imprint
- Cambridge, UK ; New York : Cambridge University Press, 2011.
- Series
- Music since 1900Music since 1900.
- Bibliography
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- Research Call Number
- JMF 11-211