John Link

Elliott Carter's Late Music

• Broschiertes Buch

Produktbeschreibung

The first comprehensive study of the late music of one of the most influential composers of the last half century, this book includes detailed essays on all of Carter's major works after 1995, with special emphasis on his settings of contemporary modernist poetry from Ashbery to Zukofsky.

Produktdetails

• Music since 1900
• Verlag: Cambridge University Press
• Seitenzahl: 510
• Erscheinungstermin: 8. Februar 2024
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 244mm x 170mm x 27mm
• Gewicht: 866g
• ISBN-13: 9781009490269
• ISBN-10: 1009490265
• Artikelnr.: 69299777

Autorenporträt

Composer and author John Link is Professor of Music at William Paterson University. He is editor of Carter's Harmony Book (with Nicholas Hopkins, 2002) and Elliott Carter Studies (with Marguerite Boland, Cambridge University Press, 2012), and the author of Elliott Carter: A Guide to Research (2000).

Inhaltsangabe

Part I. Context: 1. Carter's career and reception history
2. The elements of an aesthetic
3. Harmony
4. Rhythm and form
Part II. A Literary Imagination (Text Settings): 5. Sense and sensibility- opera
6. A kind of light -song cycles and other text settings
Part III. Instrumental Music: 7. Illusions -music for orchestra
8. Social aspirations -music for instrumental soloist and ensemble
9. A free society- music for large chamber ensemble
10. Social relations- music for small chamber ensemble
11. Reflections- short instrumental pieces.