| Elliott Carter: Collected Essays and Lectures, 1937-1995 Revised Edition Contributor(s): Carter, Elliott (Author), Bernard, Jonathan W. (Author), Bernard, Jonathan W. (Editor) |
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ISBN: 1580460259 ISBN-13: 9781580460255 Publisher: University of Rochester Press OUR PRICE: $37.95 Product Type: Paperback - Other Formats Published: November 1996 Annotation: 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 This definitive volume of his essays and lectures - many previously unpublished or uncollected -shows his thinking and writing on music and associated issues developing in parallel with his career as a composer; his reputation became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 valuable record for historians of modern music. |
| Additional Information |
| BISAC Categories: - Music | History & Criticism - General - Music | Individual Composer & Musician - Music | Instruction & Study - Composition |
| Dewey: 780.904 |
| LCCN: 96026355 |
| Series: Eastman Studies in Music |
| Physical Information: 0.81" H x 6.06" W x 8.98" (1.18 lbs) 392 pages |
| Themes: - Chronological Period - 20th Century |
| Descriptions, Reviews, Etc. |
| Publisher Description: 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 This definitive volume of his essays and lectures -- many previously unpublished or uncollected -- shows his thinking and writing onmusic and associated issues developing in parallel with his career as a composer; his reputation became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. |