This is our backup site. Click here to visit our main site at MellenPress.com
ANALYTICAL STUDIES OF THE MUSIC OF ASHLEY, CAGE, CARTER, DALLAPICCOLA, FELDMAN, LUCIER, REICH, SATIE, SCHOENBERG, WOLFF, AND XENAKIS Essays in Contemporary Music
| Author: | DeLio, Thomas Burt, Patricia | |
| Year: | 2017 | |
| Pages: | 380 | |
| ISBN: | 1-4955-0592-8 978-1-4955-0592-8 | |
| Price: | $239.95 | |
Over the past thirty years, Thomas DeLio, American composer and music theorist, has produced a highly original body of music and writings that have established his artistic and scholarly voice as unique amongst his peers. His writings have addressed music by a diverse collection of American and European composers including Iannis Xenakis, Morton Feldman, John Cage, Alvin Lucier, Arnold Schoenberg, Erik Satie and Luigi Dallapiccola.
Reviews
"... Thomas DeLio's books and essays stand on their own , written by someone who is both an important composer and a highly regarded scholar. This significant body of work, written over the course of two decades and now finally available within a single book, informs us both about the subjects in a way that I find characteristic of of the best scholarship written by artist-intellectuals."
Professor Christopher Shultis,
University of New Mexico
"The writings of Thomas DeLio are extraordinary in their singular insight approach to music scholarship and criticism. His insights into what some would identify as 'difficult music' stem from intense engagement with both the works analyzed and the times in which the works were created. In this way, the analyses take into account the music itself as a reflection of the culture in which they where created, and the important connections between music and other arts and aesthetics." Professor Linda Dusmann, University of Maryland, Baltimore County
"The writings of Thomas DeLio are extraordinary in their singular insight approach to music scholarship and criticism. His insights into what some would identify as 'difficult music' stem from intense engagement with both the works analyzed and the times in which the works were created. In this way, the analyses take into account the music itself as a reflection of the culture in which they where created, and the important connections between music and other arts and aesthetics." Professor Linda Dusmann, University of Maryland, Baltimore County
Table of Contents
Preface
Acknowledgements
Introduction by Michael Boyd
1 . The Morphology of a Global Structure: John Cage's Variations II (1980)
2. Spatial Design in Elliott Carter's Canon for 3 (1980)
3. The Dialectics of Structure and Materials: Iannis Xenakis' Nomos Alpha (1980)
4. Structural Pluralism: Robert Ashley's in memoriam ... Esteban Gomez (1981)
5. Structure as Context (1981)
6. Steve Reich (1981)
7. Toward an Art of Imminence: Morton Feldman's Durations III, #3 (1983)
8. The Shape of Sound: Alvin Lucier's Music for Pure Waves, Bass Drums and Acoustic Pendulums (1983)
9. Structure As Behavior: Christian Wolff's For One, Two or Three People (1984)
10. A Proliferation of Canons: Luigi Dallapiccola's Goethe Lieder Nos 2 and 6 (1985/87)
11. Structure and Strategy: Iannis Xenakis' Linaia-Agon(1987)
12. Time Transfigured: Erik Satie's Parade (1993)
13. Language and Form in an Early Atonal Composition: Schoenberg's Op.19#2 (1994)
14. Morton Feldman's Last Pieces#3 (1996)
15. On Christian Wolff (2000)
Bibliography
Discography
Acknowledgements
Introduction by Michael Boyd
1 . The Morphology of a Global Structure: John Cage's Variations II (1980)
2. Spatial Design in Elliott Carter's Canon for 3 (1980)
3. The Dialectics of Structure and Materials: Iannis Xenakis' Nomos Alpha (1980)
4. Structural Pluralism: Robert Ashley's in memoriam ... Esteban Gomez (1981)
5. Structure as Context (1981)
6. Steve Reich (1981)
7. Toward an Art of Imminence: Morton Feldman's Durations III, #3 (1983)
8. The Shape of Sound: Alvin Lucier's Music for Pure Waves, Bass Drums and Acoustic Pendulums (1983)
9. Structure As Behavior: Christian Wolff's For One, Two or Three People (1984)
10. A Proliferation of Canons: Luigi Dallapiccola's Goethe Lieder Nos 2 and 6 (1985/87)
11. Structure and Strategy: Iannis Xenakis' Linaia-Agon(1987)
12. Time Transfigured: Erik Satie's Parade (1993)
13. Language and Form in an Early Atonal Composition: Schoenberg's Op.19#2 (1994)
14. Morton Feldman's Last Pieces#3 (1996)
15. On Christian Wolff (2000)
Bibliography
Discography