| Description |
1 online resource (x, 336 pages) : illustrations |
| Contents |
Berio's Sequenza III: a portrait -- Ligeti's Nouvelles Aventures: a small group as a model for composition -- Lutoslawski's Trois Poemes d'Henri Michaux: voices of a multitude |
| Summary |
Istvan Anhalt, himself a composer of many vocal works, has written an interdisciplinary study of the innovative vocal and choral music that has emerged in Europe and North America since the Second World War. This music has amazed, confused, sometimes shocked, and often deeply moved its listeners, and the author probes its very roots. Anhalt sketches briefly the antecedents of this revolutionary music and then illustrates the subject by looking closely at works by three of the greatest composers of modern vocal and choral music: Luciano Berio's Sequenza III for female solo voice, GyÓ§rgy Ligeti's Nouvelles Aventures for three solo voices and small instrumental ensemble, and Witold Lutoslawski's Trois Poèmes d'Henri Michaux for large chorus and orchestra. The author next seeks to formulate a conceptual framework to explain post-war vocal composition. He discusses relationships between poetry and music, speaking and singing, theatre and music, and composers and performers. He identifies and examines recurring themes in his corpus, including hallowed and cursed names, repetition as a mythical and/or mystical technique, the arcane, magical elements in music and language, and music as spectacle or celebration and as a search for the past. Anhalt also considers the structural elements and compositional procedures used in creating this type of music. The complex associations with other creative activities that typify modern vocal composition help to make it, as Anhalt shows clearly, an extraordinary rich mosaic of alternative voices |
| Analysis |
Western vocal music, 1945-1983 - Critical studies |
| Bibliography |
"List of compositions": pages 291-299 |
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Includes bibliographical references (pages 301-319) and indexes |
| Notes |
Master and use copy. Digital master created according to Benchmark for Faithful Digital Reproductions of Monographs and Serials, Version 1. Digital Library Federation, December 2002. http://purl.oclc.org/DLF/benchrepro0212 MiAaHDL |
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Print version record |
| SUBJECT |
Lutos?awski, Witold, 1913- Poaemes d'Henri Michaux
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| Subject |
Vocal music -- 20th century -- History and criticism
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Vocal music -- 20th century -- History and criticism
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MUSIC -- Instruction & Study -- Composition.
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MUSIC -- Musical Instruments -- General.
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MUSIC -- Printed Music -- Band & Orchestra.
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Vocal music
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Vokalmusik
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Chormusik
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Geschichte (1900-1982)
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Vocal music -- 20th century -- History and criticism.
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| Genre/Form |
Criticism, interpretation, etc.
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Vocal music.
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| Form |
Electronic book
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| ISBN |
9781442656314 |
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144265631X |
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