A handbook to twentieth-century musical sketches / edited by Patricia Hall and Friedemann Sallis.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Hall, Patricia (Patricia Ann)

Sallis, Friedemann.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Musical sketches.

Musical sketches--History and criticism.

Music--20th century.

Music.

Physical Description:

xiii, 254 pages : illustrations, music. ; 26 cm

Other Title:

Handbook to 20th-century musical sketches

Twentieth-century musical sketches

Place of Publication:

Cambridge ; New York : Cambridge University Press, 2004.

Contents:

Sketches and sketching / Giselher Schubert and Friedemann Sallis

Preliminaries before visiting an archive / Ulrich Mosch

Archival etiquette / Therese Muxeneder

Coming to terms with the composer's working manuscripts / Friedemann Sallis

The classification of musical sketches exemplified in the catalogue of the Archivio Luigi Nono / Erika Schaller

Digital preservation of archival material / William Koseluk

Transcribing sketches / Regina Busch

A tale of two sketchbooks : reconstructing and deciphering Alban Berg's sketchbooks fpr Wozzeck / Patricia Hall

"Written between the desk and the piano" : dating Béla Bartók's sketches / László Somfai

Defining compositional process : idea and instrumentation in Igor Stravinsky's Ragtime (1918) and Pribaoutki (1915) / Tomi Mäkelä

Floating hierarchies : organisation and composition in works by Pierre Boulez and Karlheinz Stockhausen during the 1950s / Pascal Decroupet

Elliott Carter's sketches : spiritual exercises and craftsmanship / Denis Vermaelen

E-sketches : Brian Ferneyhough's use of computer-assisted compositional tools / Ross Feller

John Cage's Williams Mix (1951-3) : the restoration and new realisations of and variations on the first octophonic, surround-sound tape composition / Larry Austin.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references (pages 239-245) and index.

ISBN:

052180860X

OCLC:

56645929