Elliott Carter

Collected Essays and Lectures, 1937-1995
Erscheinungsjahr 1997
ISBN: 978-1-58046-025-5
Verlag: University of Rochester Press

Buch, Englisch, Band 7, 392 Seiten, Print PDF, Format (B × H): 152 mm x 229 mm, Gewicht: 635 g

Reihe: Eastman Studies in Music

Elliott Carter [b.1908] is now generally acknowledged as America's most eminent living composer. This definitive volume of his essays and lectures -- many previously unpublished or uncollected -- shows his thinking and writing onmusic and associated issues developing in parallel with his career as a composer; his reputation became established in the 1950s, and the material in this book offers an important and knowledgeable commentary on the course of American and European music in the succeeding decades.
Carter's articles on his own music have become classic texts for students of his oeuvre; he also writes on the state of new music in Europe and the United States and the relations between music and the other arts. Other pieces range from a consideration of aspects of music to the work of individual composers. As a whole, the collection is the expression of Carter's musical philosophy, and a valuablerecord for historians of modern music.

Autoren/Hrsg.

Carter, Elliott

Bernard, Jonathan W.

Fachgebiete

• Geisteswissenschaften Musikwissenschaft Musikwissenschaft Allgemein Musiktheorie, Musikästhetik, Kompositionslehre
• Geisteswissenschaften Musikwissenschaft Geschichte der Musik Geschichte der Musik: Klassische Musik des 20./21. Jahrhunderts
• Geisteswissenschaften Musikwissenschaft Musikwissenschaft Allgemein Einzelne Komponisten und Musiker

Inhaltsverzeichnis

Introduction: Essayist Despite Himself
Acknowledgments
A Carter Chronology

I. Surveying the Compositional Scene
II. American Music
III. Charles Ives
IV. Some Other Composers
V. Life and Work
VI. Philosophy, Criticism, and the Other Arts

Appendix 1: Notes on Sources
Appendix 2: Published Writings by Carter Not Included in This Collection
Index