Analytical studies of the music of Ashley, Cage, Carter, Dallapiccola, Feldman, Lucier, Reich, Satie, Schoenberg, Wolff, and Xenakis : essays in contemporary music / Thomas DeLio ; edited by Patricia Burt ; with a preface by Christopher Shultis.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

DeLio, Thomas, 1951- author.

Contributor:

Burt, Patricia, editor.

Shultis, Christopher, writer of preface.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Music--20th century--History and criticism.

Music.

Music--20th century--Analysis, appreciation.

Composers--20th century.

Composers.

Physical Description:

356 pages : illustrations, music ; 24 cm

Place of Publication:

Lewiston, New York : Edwin Mellen Press, [2017]

Contents:

The morphology of a global structure : John Cage's Variations II (1980)

Spatial design in Elliott Carter's Canon for 3 (1980)

The dialectics of structure and materials : Iannis Xenakis' Nomos alpha (1980)

Structural pluralism : Robert Ashley's in memoriam...Esteban Gomez (1981)

Structure as context (1981)

Steve Reich (1981)

Toward an art of imminence : Morton Feldman's Durations III, #3 (1983)

The shape of sound : Alvin Lucier's Music for pure waves, bass drums and acoustic pendulums (1983)

Structure as behavior : Christian Wolff's For one, two or three people (1984)

A proliferation of canons : Luigi Dallapiccola's Goethe Lieder nos. 2 and 6 (1985/87)

Structure and strategy : Iannis Xenakis' Linaia-agon (1987)

Time transfigured : Erik Satie's Parade (1993)

Language and form in an early atonal composition : Schoenberg's op. 19 #2 (1994)

Morton Feldman's Last pieces #3 (1996)

On Christian Wolff (2000).

Notes:

Collects DeLio's major analytical essays from 1980-2000.

Includes bibliographical references (pages 345-351) and discography (pages 353-356).

ISBN:

9781495505928

1495505928

OCLC:

1002831029

Publisher Number:

99974762607