| The Musical Language of Pierre Boulez: Writings and Compositions Contributor(s): Goldman, Jonathan (Author) |
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ISBN: 0521514908 ISBN-13: 9780521514903 Publisher: Cambridge University Press OUR PRICE: $114.00 Product Type: Hardcover - Other Formats Published: March 2011 |
| Additional Information |
| BISAC Categories: - Music | Individual Composer & Musician - Music | History & Criticism - General |
| Dewey: 780.92 |
| LCCN: 2010041734 |
| Series: Music Since 1900 |
| Physical Information: 0.8" H x 7" W x 9.8" (1.40 lbs) 270 pages |
| Descriptions, Reviews, Etc. |
| Publisher Description: Pierre Boulez is arguably the most influential composer of the second half of the twentieth century. Here, Jonathan Goldman provides a fresh appraisal of the composer's music, demonstrating how understanding the evolution of Boulez's ideas on musical form is an important step towards evaluating his musical thought generally. The theme of form arising from a grammar of oppositions - the legacy of structuralism - serves as a common thread in Boulez's output, and testifies to the constancy of Boulez's thought over and above his several notable aesthetic and stylistic changes. This book lends a voice to the musical works by using the writings - particularly the mostly untranslated collected Coll ge de France lectures (1976-1995) - to comment on them. It also uses five musical works from the post-1975 period to exemplify concepts developed in Boulez's writings, presenting a vivid portrait of Boulez's extremely varied production. |
Contributor Bio(s): Goldman, Jonathan: - Jonathan Goldman is Associate Professor of Musicology at the Université de Montréal, and specializes in twentieth-century music history. Editor-in-Chief of the journal Circuit, musiques contemporaines, he wrote the preface to Leçons de musique (2005), a collection of Boulez's writings published in France. |