Stocktakings from an Apprenticeship

ISBN-13: 9780193112100 / Angielski / Twarda / 1991 / 352 str.

Pierre Boulez; Stephen Walsh; Robert Piencikowski

Opis

In these essays, the leading French composer and conductor Pierre Boulez explains many of his most significant ideas about music. The essays are divided into four parts, the first three concerned with common preoccupations (aesthetic, technical, and polemical) and the last a collection of entries intended for a music encyclopedia. Boulez offers penetrating and provocative analyses of the music of the major figures of twentieth-century music including Stravinsky, Schoenberg, Berg, Webern, Debussy, Messiaen, and Ravel. His illuminating comments arise from intimate knowledge of the music, and the resulting collection is an essential document of post-war modern music.

Recenzje

'crucial document ... The passion behind Boulez's polemics is perhaps the most old-fashioned aspect of these essays - and also perhaps the most admirable.' David Schiff, Reed College, Notes, March 1993

Spis treści

Introduction; I: In search of a musical aesthetic; II: Towards a technology; III: A few squibs; IV: Entries for a musical encyclopaedia; Postface; Index

O autorze

Leading French composer and conductor and writer on music.