| Description |
xx, 369 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm |
| Series |
Eastman studies in music, 1071-9989 ; [7] |
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Eastman studies in music ; v. 7
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| Contents |
Double concerto, 1961, and duo, 1974 (1975) ; Music and the time screen (1976) ; "Elle est la musique en personne": a reminiscence of Nadia Boulanger (c.1985/95) ; Reminiscence of Italy (1988) -- Philosophy, criticism, and the other arts. More about Balanchine (1937) ; With the dancers (1938) ; Remembering Balanchine (1991/95) ; Theatre and films (1943) ; The genial sage [Paul Rosenfeld] (1948) ; Introduction to a poetry reading by W.H. Auden (1969) ; Music as a liberal art (1944) ; Time lecture (1965/94) ; The Gesamtkunstwerk (1966/94) ; Soviet music (1967/94) ; Music criticism (1972) |
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Some other composers. Gabriel Fauré (1945) ; The three late sonatas of Debussy (1959/94) ; American figure, with landscape [Henry F. Gilbert] (1943) ; Stravinsky in 1940 (1940) ; Igor Stravinsky: two tributes (1971) ; On Edgard Varèse (1975/79) ; Edward Steuermann (1966) ; Walter Piston (1946) ; Roger Sessions: violin concerto (1959) ; In memoriam: Roger Sessions, 1896-1985 (1985/95) ; In memoriam: Stefan Wolpe, 1902-1972 (1972) ; Two essays on Goffredo Petrassi (1960, 1986) ; To think of Milton Babbitt (1976) ; For Pierre Boulez on his sixtieth (1985) -- Life and work. To be a composer in America (1953/94) ; The composer's choices (c.1960) ; Shop talk by an American composer (1960) ; The time dimension in music (1965) ; Two sonatas, 1948 and 1952 (1969) ; String quartets nos. I, 1951, and 2, 1959 (1970) ; The orchestral composer's point of view (1970) ; On Saint-John Perse and the concerto for orchestra (1974/94) ; Brass quintet (1974) |
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Surveying the compositional scene. The composer's viewpoint (1946) ; A further step (1958) ; The challenge of the new (1960-62/94) ; Fallacy of the mechanistic approach (1946) ; "La musique sérielle aujourd'hui" (1965/94) ; ISCM Festival, Rome (1959) ; Rasputin's end and Lady Macbeth of Mtsensk (1960) ; Letter from Europe (1963) ; ISCM Festival, Amsterdam (1963/94) -- American music. Once again swing; also "American music" (1939) ; American music in the New York scene (1940) ; The agony of modern music in America, 1955 (1955/94) ; The rhythmic basis of American music (1955) ; The European roots of American musical culture (1961/94) ; Expressionism and American music (1965/72) ; "The composer is a university commodity" (1970) -- Charles Ives. The case of Mr. Ives (1939) / Ives today: his vision and challenge (1944) ; An American destiny (1946) ; Charles Ives remembered (1974) ; Documents of a friendship with Ives (1975) |
| Summary |
Carter writes about his own music (in articles that are classic texts for all students of his compositional oeuvre), about new music in Europe and the United States, and about the relations between music and the other arts. Other pieces range from a consideration of aspects of music in general (such as time and rhythm as a philosophical problem) to the work of individual composers, such as Debussy, Ives, Varese, and Stravinsky, among numerous others. As a whole, the collection is the expression of Carter's musical philosophy, and a valuable record for historians of modern music |
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Elliott Carter (b. 1908) is now widely recognized as America's most eminent living composer. This definitive volume of his essays and lectures - many previously unpublished or uncollected - shows his thinking and writing on music and associated issues developing in parallel with his career as a composer: his reputation became internationally established in the 1950s, and the material in this book offers an important and knowledgeable commentary on the course of American and European music in the succeeding decades |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references (pages 343-353) and index |
| Subject |
Music -- 20th century -- History and criticism.
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| Author |
Bernard, Jonathan W., 1951-
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| LC no. |
96026355 |
| ISBN |
1580460259 (paperback) |
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1878822705 (alk. paper) |
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