Compositional Process in Elliott Carter's String Quartets: A Study in Sketches

ISBN-13: 9781032084848 / Angielski / Miękka / 2021 / 268 str.

Laura Emmery

Opis

This is an interdisciplinary study examining the evolution and compositional process in Elliott Carter’s five string quartets. The book’s narrative reveals new aspects of understanding these works and draws novel conclusions on their collective meaning and Carter’s place as the leading American modernist.

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Introduction

Chapter 1: Elliott Carter’s First String Quartet: in search of Proustian time

Chapter 2: Elliott Carter’s Second String Quartet: formation of a new harmonic language and character-continuities

Chapter 3: Elliott Carter’s Third String Quartet: separation in time and space

Chapter 4: Connecting the dots: compositional process in Elliott Carter’s Fourth String Quartet

Chapter 5: A synthesis: Elliott Carter’s Fifth String Quartet

Appendices

Bibliography

O autorze

Laura Emmery is Assistant Professor of Music Theory at Emory University. Her research focuses on 20th-/21st-century music and post-tonal theory, with an interdisciplinary approach that draws on philosophy, literary criticism, critical theory, and performance studies. Having spent over two years at the Paul Sacher Stiftung conducting a critical study of the original sources, her analysis of Elliott Carter’s music incorporates sketch study in tracking the composer’s evolution and process. Her work on Carter has been published in The Musical Quarterly, Contemporary Music Review, Tempo, Twentieth-Century Music, Sonus, Mitteilungen der Paul Sacher, and Form and Process in Music, 1300-2014: An Analytical Sampler. Laura Emmery holds a PhD in Music Theory from the University of California at Santa Barbara and an MM in Theoretical Studies from the New England Conservatory of Music.