Laura Emmery (USA Emory University)

Broschiertes Buch

Compositional Process in Elliott Carter's String Quartets

A Study in Sketches

Beschreibung

This is an interdisciplinary study examining the evolution and compositional process in Elliott Carterâ s five string quartets. The bookâ s narrative reveals new aspects of understanding these works and draws novel conclusions on their collective meaning and Carterâ s place as the leading American modernist.

Autor

Laura Emmery is Assistant Professor of Music Theory at Emory University. Her research focuses on 20th-/21st-century music and post-tonal theory, with an interdisciplinary approach that draws on philosophy, literary criticism, critical theory, and performance studies. Having spent over two years at the Paul Sacher Stiftung conducting a critical study of the original sources, her analysis of Elliott Carter's music incorporates sketch study in tracking the composer's evolution and process. Her work on Carter has been published in The Musical Quarterly, Contemporary Music Review, Tempo, Twentieth-Century Music, Sonus, Mitteilungen der Paul Sacher , and Form and Process in Music, 1300-2014: An Analytical Sampler. Laura Emmery holds a PhD in Music Theory from the University of California at Santa Barbara and an MM in Theoretical Studies from the New England Conservatory of Music.

Produktdetails

• Ashgate Studies in Theory and Analysis of Music After 1900
• Verlag: Taylor & Francis Ltd
• Seitenzahl: 270
• Erscheinungstermin: 30. Juni 2021
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 234mm x 156mm x 15mm
• Gewicht: 422g
• ISBN-13: 9781032084848
• ISBN-10: 1032084847
• Artikelnr.: 62152029