Gerhard on Music: Selected Writings

ISBN-13: 9781138710528 / Angielski / Twarda / 2019 / 276 str.

Roberto Gerhard; Meirion Bowen

Opis

This title was first published in 2000:  In this work, the author collects many of the composer's articles, reviews, lectures and broadcasts to demonstrate the full extent and continuity of Gerhard's artistic and creative thinking.

Spis treści

Part I: Composer and Public.  1. Listening to Music (1930).  2. The Composer and his audience (1960).  3. Second and Symbol (1957).  4. The Contemporary Musical Situation (1956).  Part II: Tradition and Innovation.  Music at the court of Alfonso V the Magnanimous (1936).  6. A Note on Felipe Pedrell (c. 1940).  7. New Musical Methods (1930).  8. Music and Poetry (1935).  Part III: Contemporary Composers (1929-1939).  9. Hanns Eisler (1898-1982).  10. Bartok.  11. Ildebrando Pizzetti.  12. Baltasa Samper.  13. Some Composers from Madrid.  Part IV: Music and Drama.  14. Opera (1930).  15. Music and Film (1930).  16. The Duenna (1949).  17. Music and Ballet.  Part V: New Horizons.  18. Schoenberg, Twelve-note Music and Serialism.  19. On Composition with Twelve Notes (1954).  20. Tonality in Twelve-tone Music (1952).  21. Developments in Twelve-tone Technique (1956).  22. Alban Ber: Obituary (1936).  23. Webern.  24. Twelve-note Technique in Stravinsky (1957).  25. Functions of the Series in Twelve-note Composition (1960).  Part VI: Music in a Post-War Context.  26. England, Spring 1945.  27. Concrete Music and Electronic Sound Composition (1959).  28. Sound Observed (1965).  29. The Plague (1964).  30. Introduction to Symphony No. 2 (1959).  31. "Is Modern Music Growing Old?" (1960).  32. Art and Anarchy (1961).  33. The Muse and Music Today (1962).  34. An Inaugrual Lecture (1961).