Includes bibliographical references, discography and indexes.
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Contents
Winds : woodwinds and brass. Potent / Lori Freedman ; Performing Xenakis on brass / Benny Sluchin ; Xenakis' wind glissando writing appendix : Cendrees' 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 Strausbourg / Claude Ricou and Jean-Paul Bernard ; X is for Xenakis / Steven Schick ; Pity and fear : Iannis Xenakis' Psappha as Aristotelian tragedy -- 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' strings quartets / Kevin McFarland ; Xenakis's 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 Xenaki / Spyros Sakkas ; Notes on working with Xenakis / Frances-Marie Uitti -- Ensemble and orchestra. On Da mmerschein / Riccardo Schulz and Juan Pablo Izquierdo ; Conducting (and playing) Xenakis' orchestral music / Michel Tabachnik ; Notes on the interpretation of Iannis Xenakis' Jonchaies / Arturo Tamayo -- Electronics. Interpreting Xenakis' electo-acoustic music : La Legende d'Eer / Gerard Pape ; Performing the UPIC system of Iannis Xenakis / Peter Nelson -- Postface. Total rejection of inheritance, or who is Iannis Xenakis?