Liam Cagney (BIMM University)

Gerard Grisey and Spectral Music

Composition in the Information Age

• Gebundenes Buch

Produktbeschreibung

The first in-depth historical study of the origins of spectral music, which is widely regarded, alongside minimalism, as one of the two most influential compositional movements of the last fifty years. The book will appeal to anyone interested in how classical music developed in the late twentieth century.

Produktdetails

• Music since 1900
• Verlag: Cambridge University Press
• Seitenzahl: 300
• Erscheinungstermin: 14. Dezember 2023
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 177mm x 252mm x 20mm
• Gewicht: 714g
• ISBN-13: 9781009399524
• ISBN-10: 1009399527
• Artikelnr.: 68543948

Autorenporträt

Liam Cagney is the co-editor of the Oxford Handbook of Spectral Music, and his musical criticism appears regularly in places like Gramophone, the Guardian, the Telegraph, the Spectator, the TLS, and the Irish Times. He is the recipient of an Arts Council of Ireland Emerging Writer Bursary and a City, University of London doctoral studentship. He teaches at BIMM University.

Inhaltsangabe

Introduction; PART I. Grisey's Style; 1. Grisey's early formation (1960
65); 2. Messiaen's class and new music in late 1960s Paris (1967
70); 3. Statistical serialism and Vagues, chemins, le souffle (1970
72); 4. On the threshold: D'eau et de pierre (1972); PART II. Spectral Music; 5. Psychoacoustics and the new compositional framework (1973
74); 6. L'Itinéraire and synthetic music (1973
76); 7. New Dimensions (1976
78); 8. Spectral music and écriture liminale (1979
82); Conclusion.