Stocktakings from an apprenticeship / Pierre Boulez ; collected and presented by Paule Thévenin ; translated from the French by Stephen Walsh ; with an introduction by Robert Piencikowski.
| Author/creator | Boulez, Pierre |
| Other author | Thévenin, Paule. |
| Other author | Walsh, Stephen, 1942- |
| Format | Book |
| Publication Info | Oxford [England] : Clarendon Press ; New York : Oxford University Press, 1991. |
| Description | xxix, 316 pages : illustrations, music ; 24 cm |
| Subjects |
| Contents | In search of a musical aesthetic -- Bach's moment -- Current investigations -- Corruption in the censers -- Alea -- Sound and word -- Towards a technology -- Proposals -- Stravinsky remains -- Possibly... -- "...Near and far" -- "At the edge of fertile land" (Paul Klee) -- Tendencies in recent music -- A few squibs -- The current impact of Berg (the fortnight of Austrian music in Paris) -- Trajectories : Ravel, Stravinsky, Schoenberg -- Note on Sprechgesang -- Schoenberg is dead -- Incipit -- A conjuction : in three fragments -- Entries for a musical encyclopedia -- Chord -- Chromaticism -- Concrète (musique) -- Counterpoint -- Series -- Béla Bartók -- Alban Berg -- Claude Debussy -- Arnold Schoenberg -- Schoenberg's music for piano -- Anton Webern. |
| Abstract | 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. |
| General note | Translation of: Relevés d'apprenti. |
| Bibliography note | Includes bibliographical references and index. |
| Other title | Relevés d'apprenti. |
| LCCN | 90007655 |
| ISBN | 0193112108 : |
Availability
| Library | Location | Call Number | Status | Item Actions |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Music | Closed Stacks - Ask at Circulation Desk | ML60 .B71313 1991 | ✔ Available | Place Hold |