Pierre Boulez studies / edited by Edward Campbell and Peter O'Hagan.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Campbell, Edward, 1958- editor.

O'Hagan, Peter, editor.

Series:

Cambridge Composer Studies.

Cambridge composer studies

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Boulez, Pierre, 1925-2016--Criticism and interpretation.

Boulez, Pierre.

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

Music.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (xv, 395 pages) : digital, PDF file(s).

Place of Publication:

Cambridge : Cambridge University Press, 2016.

Summary:

Pierre Boulez is acknowledged as one of the most important composers in contemporary musical life. This collection explores his works, influence, reception and legacy, shedding new light on Boulez's music and its historical and cultural contexts. In two sections that focus firstly on the context of the 1940s and 1950s and secondly on the development of the composer's style, the contributors address recurring themes such as Boulez's approach to the serial principle and the related issues of form and large-scale structure. Featuring excerpts from Boulez's correspondence with a range of his contemporaries here published for the first time, the book illuminates both Boulez's relationship with them and his thinking concerning the challenges which confronted both him and other leading figures of the European avant-garde. In the final section, three chapters examine Boulez's relationship with audiences in the United Kingdom, and the development of the appreciation of his music.

Contents:

Cover ; Half-title page; Title page; Copyright page; Contents; List of Figures; List of Contributors; Preface; Acknowledgements; List of Abbreviations; Part I The Context of the Late 1940s and 1950s; 1 Pierre Boulez: Composer, Traveller, Correspondent; 2 Traces of an Apprenticeship: Pierre Boulez's Sonatine (1946/1949); 3 Schoenberg vive; Part II The Evolution of a Style; 4 'A score neither begins nor ends; at most it pretends to': Fragmentary Reflections on the Boulezian 'non finito'

5 Serial Organisation and Beyond: Cross-Relations of Determinants in Le Marteau sans maître and the Dynamic Pitch-Algorithm of 'Constellation'6 'DU FOND D'UN NAUFRAGE': The Quarter-tone Compositions of Pierre Boulez; 7 'Alea' and the Concept of the 'Work in Progress'; 8 Casting New Light on Boulezian Serialism: Unpredictability and Free Choice in the Composition of Pli selon pli - portrait de Mallarmé; 9 Serial Processes, Agency and Improvisation ; 10 Listening to Doubles in Stereo; 11 Composing an Improvisation at the Beginning of the 1970s; Part III Reception Studies

12 Pierre Boulez in London: the William Glock Years13 Tartan from Baden-Baden: Boulez at the 1965 Edinburgh International Festival; 14 Pierre Boulez and the Suspension of Narrative; Bibliography; Index

Notes:

Title from publisher's bibliographic system (viewed on 27 Oct 2016).

Includes bibliographical references and index.

ISBN:

1-316-71474-8

1-316-71558-2

1-316-71572-8

1-107-65317-7

1-107-47721-2

1-316-71586-8

1-316-71642-2

1-316-71600-7