Xenakis : his life in music / James Harley.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Harley, James, 1959- author.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Xenakis, Iannis, 1922-2001.

Xenakis, Iannis.

Composers--Biography.

Composers.

Genre:

Biographies.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (273 p.)

Edition:

First edition.

Place of Publication:

2004.

Abingdon, Oxon : Routledge, 2017.

Language Note:

English

Summary:

Xenakis: His Life in Music is a full-length study of the influential contemporary composer Iannis Xenakis. Following the trajectory of Xenakis’s compositional development, James Harley, who studied with Xenakis, presents the works together with clear explanations of the technical and conceptual innovations that shaped them. Harley examines the relationship between the composer and two early influences: Messiaen and Le Corbusier. Particular attention is paid to analyzing works which were vital to the composer’s creative development, from early, unpublished works to the breakthrough pieces Metastasis and Pithoprakta, through the oft-discussed decade of formalization and the evolving styles of the succeeding three decades.

Contents:

The outsider

From the personal to the individual

From architecture to algorithm

The voice, the stage, and a new conception of time

Arborescences, random walks, and cosmic conceptions

Sieves, ensembles, and thoughts of death

Melody, harmonic color, and nonlinear form

The late works: abstraction and intensity.

Notes:

Description based upon print version of record.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

CC BY-NC-ND

Description based on print version record.

ISBN:

9786610281411

9781135874940

1135874948

9780203958292

0203958292

9781280281419

1280281413

9780203342794

0203342798

OCLC:

252754133

Publisher Number:

https://doi.org/10.4324/9780203342794

Access Restriction:

Unrestricted online access.