Joël-François Durand in the mirror land / edited by Jonathan W. Bernard.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Durand, Joël-François.

Contributor:

Bernard, Jonathan W., 1951-

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Durand, Joël-François.

Composers--France--Biography.

Composers.

France.

Composition (Music).

Genre:

Biographies.

Autobiographies.

Physical Description:

xii, 266 pages : music ; 24 cm

Place of Publication:

Seattle, WA : University of Washington Press : In association with Perspectives of New Music, [2005]

Summary:

Thus Begins "In the Mirror Land: Reflections on a Self-Reflection," the central essay in this collection of texts by and about French composer Joel-Francois Durand. In his wide-ranging self-interview, Durand speaks candidly and engagingly about how and why he became a composer, and about the ways in which this choice has shaped his musical and intellectual development. Musical composition, for Durand, draws upon many of the other artistic and humanistic disciplines, and affects his thinking about them in parallel with music. Peopling his conversation are poet Jackson Mac Low, novelist Thomas Bernhard, philosophers Martin Heidegger and Theodor W. Adorno, musicologist Carl Dahlhaus, and a host of others-painters, filmmakers, and an architect-along with a vast company of composers from the twentieth and twenty-first centuries. Two further essays by Durand round out this collecion of the composer's writings: an in-depth exposition and contemplation of the use of melody in his music and a short but intense analytical study of his Piano Concerto.

The Second Part of this volume comprises four essays on Durand's music, contributed by three of his former composition students-Christian Asplund, Eric Flesher, and Ryan Hare-and by his colleague, music theorist Jonathan W. Bernard, who has also edited and introduced this absorbing portrait of the composer.

Contents:

In the Mirror Land: Reflections on a Self-Reflection (2004) 1

Melody-Three Situations: Un Feu distinct, La Terre et le feu, Athanor (2004) 89

On Some Aspects of the Piano Concerto: Time as Generator of Space through Melody and Harmony (1996) 139

In the Mirror Land: Version for Flute and Oboe (2003) 153

Thematic Adaptation in Recent Works of Joel-Francois Durand / Eric Flesher 163

Centers, Fields, and Cracks: Some Solutions to the Problems of Contemporary Composition in the Music of Joel-Francois Durand / Ryan M. Hare 173

"As if to illustrate the process of creation itself": Joel-Francois Durand's Lichtung / Christian Asplund 183

Durand, Bernhard, and Form / Jonathan W. Bernard 211.

Notes:

Includes essays on Durand's music by his students Christian Asplund, Eric Flesher, and Ryan Hare, and by colleague Jonathan W. Bernard.

Includes bibliographical references, list of Durand's works (pages [251]-257), and index.

ISBN:

0295985747

0295985755

OCLC:

61309292

Publisher Number:

9780295985749