The New worlds of Edgard Varèse : a symposium /
Elliott Carter assesses Varèse's position among the "heroic avant garde" of the 1920s and the importance of Varèse's music to two generations of younger composers--during the 1920s and again, after an eclipse, from the 1950s--provides an especially valuable perspective. Robert...
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| Format: | Book |
| Language: | English |
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Brooklyn :
Institute for Studies in American Music, Department of Music, School of Performing Arts, Brooklyn College of the City University of New York,
c1979
Brooklyn : ©1979 Brooklyn : c1979 Brooklyn : [1979] |
| Series: | I.S.A.M. monographs ;
no. 11 I.S.A.M. monographs no. 11 I.S.A.M. monographs ; no. 11 I.S.A.M. monographs no. 11 I.S.A.M. monographs no. 11. |
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| Summary: | Elliott Carter assesses Varèse's position among the "heroic avant garde" of the 1920s and the importance of Varèse's music to two generations of younger composers--during the 1920s and again, after an eclipse, from the 1950s--provides an especially valuable perspective. Robert P. Morgan has written about Varèse's music in a number of articles, but nowhere more cogently than in his well-titled study "Rewriting Music History: Second Thoughts on Ives and Varèse" in the Musical Newsletter issues of January and April 1973. There he argued a new interpretation of the main lines of twentieth-century music and crystallized a point of view that many were ready to accept. His essay here concentrates on inter-relations of rhythm and pitch structures. The composer Chou Wen-chung came to study with Varèse in 1949 and became over many years his closest musical associate. His editions and analyses, therefore, have carried a special authority. Chou's study of Ionisation is a product of discussion with students over several years, as he states in his end-note, and has had something of the status of an underground classic in analytic circles. A shorter version was made available for publication in Germany, but the study appears here in fully developed form, and with musical examples. --from Foreword |
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| Item Description: | This WorldCat-derived record is shareable under Open Data Commons ODC-BY, with attribution to OCLC "This volume had its origin in a symposium on Varèse's music that was held at the City University of New York in April 1977." "This volume had its origin in a symposium on Varèse's music that was held at the City University of New York in April 1977." |
| Physical Description: | ix, 90 p. : ill. ; 22 cm ix, 90 p. : ill., music ; 22 cm ix, 90 p. : ill., music, facsims. ; 22 cm ix, 90 pages : illustrations ; 22 cm |
| ISBN: | 0914678116 9780914678113 |