| Description |
1 online resource (316 p.) |
| Series |
Music Since 1900 Series |
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Music Since 1900 Series
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| Contents |
Cover -- Half-title -- Series information -- Title page -- Imprints page -- Dedication -- Epigraph -- Contents -- List of Figures -- List of Music Examples -- Acknowledgements -- List of Abbreviations -- Introduction -- Part I Grisey's Style -- 1 Grisey's Early Formation (1960-1966) -- Grisey's Youth in Belfort -- Studies at the Städtische Musikschule, Trossingen, 1964-1966 -- Preliminary Studies in Paris, 1965-1968 -- 2 Messiaen's Class and New Music in Late 1960s Paris (1967-1970) -- Messiaen's Class -- Grisey's camarades de classe -- Serialism and Beyond |
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The Paris Conservatoire after May '68 -- Point-radiant -- Trends in New Music in France in 1969 -- Messiaen's personnages sonores as the Roots of Grisey's Spectral Figures -- Grisey's Student Works -- 3 Statistical Serialism and Vagues, chemins, le souffle (1970-1972) -- Serialism's Move towards Statistical Thought -- Boulez as Threshold -- Xenakis's Influence on Grisey -- 4 On the Threshold: D'eau et de pierre (1972) -- The Compositional Process -- Meditative Music in 1972 -- Darmstadt Summer Courses 1972 -- D'eau et de pierre -- Part II Spectral Music |
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5 Psychoacoustics and the New Compositional Framework (1973-1974) -- Life at the Villa Medici -- Murail's Student Compositions -- Grisey's Rome Sketches -- Psychoacoustics and the Mutation of Statistical Serialism into Spectralism -- The Composition of Dérives -- 6 L'Itinéraire and Synthetic Music (1973-1976) -- The Domaine Musical's Demise and l'Itinéraire's Rise -- The Premiere of Grisey's Périodes (1974) -- Psychoacoustics, Information Theory, and Synthetic Music -- A New Musical Movement -- 7 New Dimensions (1976-1978) -- Grisey and Murail as Leaders of the New Style |
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Dufourt, Levinas, Tessier, and Spectralist Diversity -- 8 Spectral Music and écriture liminale (1979-1982) -- Dufourt's musique spectrale -- Grisey and Dufourt's Aesthetic-Theoretical Correspondence -- Murail's Spectral Music -- Grisey's écriture liminale -- Ma fin est mon commencement -- Conclusion -- Bibliography -- Index |
| Summary |
The first in-depth historical study of the origins of spectral music, which is widely regarded, alongside minimalism, as one of the two most influential compositional movements of the last fifty years. The book will appeal to anyone interested in how classical music developed in the late twentieth century |
| Notes |
Description based upon print version of record |
| Form |
Electronic book
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| ISBN |
9781009399487 |
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1009399489 |
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