| Uniform title | Ėdison Denisov. English |
| Series |
Contemporary music studies ; v. 8
Contemporary music studies ; v. 8. ^A287275
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| Contents |
A biographical outline. Childhood and school years. The family ; School years ; University years ; The music college. First works -- A mathematician or a musician? -- The conservatoire. The post-1948 period ; Under Vissarion Shebalin's tutorship ; In search of folk music ; Graduation from the conservatoire. The postgraduate years -- Works written during the conservatoire years (1951-59) ; The first press reviews -- Acquisition of his own style. Self-education ; Opus one: The Sun of the Incas -- Running against the stream. 'The new technique is not a fashion' ; A propos of one interview ; A chronicle of bans -- The west getting to know Denisov -- 'The Khrennikov seven' -- Denisov the teacher -- Recognition -- The composer's inner world -- The composer's style and techniques -- A breakthrough to a personal style -- Denisov's style -- Genres, characters, images. 'High lyricism' ; Lyrical 'Interweaving' ; 'Shooting', 'Pricking' and sharply rhythmical dots ; 'Dotting' and pointillistic 'splashes' ; 'Rustles'. 'Smooth threads' -- Sonoristic mixtures. Clusters -- Sonoristic arrays ; Alleatory ; Traditional artistic genres -- On Denisov's artistic thinking -- Denisov's music: harmony and the pitch-class system -- Rhythmics -- Serial technique. 'Series elaboration' ; Serialism -- Musical compositions. Stage music. Edison Denisov and Boris Vian ; Boris Vian's novel l Ecume des jours ; Edison Denisov's opera l Ecume des jours ; The ballet Confession ; The opera Les Quatre filles -- Works for orchestra. Peinture ; Concertos ; Symphony for full orchestra -- Chamber instrumental compositions. Crescendo e Diminuendo ; Three pieces for piano four hands ; Three pieces for cello and piano ; Ode for clarinet, piano and percussion ; Romantic Music ; DSCH ; Silhouettes ; Trio for violin, viola and cello ; The wind quintet ; Sonata for saxophone and piano ; Canon in memory of Igor Stravinsky ; Signes en blanc ; Quintet for clarinet and string quartet ; Three pieces for percussion -- Choral works. Requiem -- Works for voice. The Sun of the Incas ; Italian Songs ; Wails ; La vie en rouge ; Autumn ; The song-cycles of the 1980s for voice and piano -- Special genres. Instrumental theatre ; Blue Notebook ; The Ship Steams Past the Harbour -- Electronic musique concrete. Birdsong ; Sur la nappe d'un etang glace -- Orchestrations -- Denisov on music: literary writings and public statements. On composers and music ; Some general statements about music ; Some problems of musical composition -- Appendices. Letters from Dmitry Shostakovich to Edison Denisov ; Pierre Boulez about Edison Denisov ; About some musical works. A plot of the opera l Ecume des jours ; A plot of the opera Les quatre filles ; Blue Notebook: Edison Denisov's annotation ; Requiem: musical forms ; Romantic music ; Some sets -- Musicological works by Edison Denisov. |
| Abstract |
Edison Denisov belongs to the generation of composers who came to the fore in the post-Stalinist era and were destined to change the course of Russian music. Their maturity in the late 1940s coincided with persecutions of the best writers, poets and theatrical figures, Party resolutions on music, and the struggle against "formalism" and "cosmopolitanism." This generation took up the challenge and embarked on its way, proceeding from unconscious but mounting intellectual ferment to an open breach with official ideological doctrines, towards more and more daring and independent artistic concepts. The creative personality of Edison Denisov, one of the leading Russian avant-gardists, was shaped under these conditions. Starting in a Shostakovian style, Denisov took a sharp turn toward the New Music of Boulez and Nono. Denisov's creative individuality, rooted in the past of Russian music and developed under the beneficial impact of 20th century composers like Stravinsky, Bartok and Webern, revealed itself to its best advantage in his avant-garde compositions beginning with the cantata The Sun of the Incas. In this monograph, detailed analyses are given of Denisov's compositional techniques and his musical and literary works in an attempt to reveal the inner world of one of the foremost representatives of the Russian avant-garde. |
| General note | Translation of: Edison Denisov. |
| Bibliography note | Includes bibliographical references (pages 225-227), discography (pages 213-218), and indexes. |
| Bibliography note | "Complete catalogue of works": pages 195-212. |
| ISBN | 3718654253 |
| ISBN | 3718654261 (pbk.) |
