Elliott Carter Studies

Over the course of an astonishingly long career, Elliott Carter has engaged with many musical developments of the twentieth and now twenty-first centuries - from his early neo-classic music of the interwar period, to his modernist works of conflict and opposition in the 1960s and 1970s, to the reshaping of a modernist aesthetic in his latest compositions. Elliott Carter Studies throws new light on these many facets of Carter's extensive musical oeuvre. This collection of essays presents historic, philosophic, philological and theoretical points of departure for in-depth investigations of individual compositions, stylistic periods in Carter's output and his contributions to a variety of genres, including vocal music, the string quartet and the concerto. The first multi-authored book to appear on Carter's music, it brings together new research from a distinguished team of leading international Carter scholars, providing the reader with a wide range of perspectives on an extraordinary musical life.

Author: Marguerite Boland
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Published: 07/26/2012
Pages: 364
Binding Type: Hardcover
Weight: 1.65lbs
Size: 9.60h x 6.90w x 1.20d
ISBN: 9780521113625

About the Author
Link, John: - John Link is a composer and Professor of Music at the William Paterson University of New Jersey. He is the author of Elliott Carter: A Guide to Research (2000) and co-editor, with Nicholas Hopkins, of Elliott Carter's Harmony Book.Boland, Marguerite: - Marguerite Boland is a researcher in the College of Arts and Social Sciences at the Australian National University, Canberra. Her scholarly interest is twentieth-century modernist music and aesthetics, particularly the music of Elliott Carter and of Johanna Beyer.