Electroacoustic music : analytical perspectives / edited by Thomas Licata, foreword by Jean-Claude Risset.
| Other author | Licata, Thomas, 1961- editor. |
| Format | Book |
| Publication Info | Westport, CT : Greenwood Press, 2002. |
| Description | xxiv, 242 pages : illustrations ; 25 cm. |
| Subjects |
| Series | Contributions to the study of music and dance ; no. 63, 0193-9041 ; Contributions to the study of music and dance ; no. 63. ^A466730 |
| Contents | Foreword / Jean-Claude Risset -- Introduction / Thomas Licata -- Through the sensory looking-glass: the aesthetic and serial foundations of Gesang der Jünglinge / Pascal Decroupet and Elena Ungeheuer -- Diamorphoses by Iannis Xenakis / Thomas DeLio -- Koenig ; Sound composition ; Essay / Konrad Boehner -- Luigi Nono's Ommaggio a Emilio Vedova / Thomas Licata -- Serial composition, serial form, and process in Karlheinz Stockhausen's Telemusik / Jerome Kohl -- Subscore manipulation as a tool for compositional and sonic design / Otto Laske -- Story of emergence and dissolution: analytical sketches of Jean-Claude Risset's Contours / Agostino Di Scipio -- Looking into Sequence symbols / James Dashow -- Oppositional dialectics in Joji Yuasa's The Sea Darkens / Kristian Twombly. |
| Abstract | Electroacoustic music, a flourishing medium for over half a century, remains today, in a wide array of technological forms, one of the major areas of creative activity in music. However, it has long been overlooked in theoretical studies--possibly in part because it does away with traditional scores and notation. In this landmark collection, a group of distinguished composers and theorists who have actively worked in the field present detailed analyses of important electroacoustic works while also demonstrating some recent approaches to the analysis of the music of this medium. Included here are discussions of such significant works as Karlheinz Stockhausen's Gesang der Jünglinge (1955/56), Iannis Xenakis' Diamorphoses (1957), and Jean-Claude Risset's Contours (1982). Overall, the collection aims to elucidate the sonic design of each of the electroacoustic music works under investigation, using its best examples as a lens through which to examine an unduly neglected genre. Demonstrating recent techniques in the analysis of electroacoustic music, the volume also considers various compositional approaches as well as computer applications that have become an irreplaceable tool in the composing of this music. So little has been written about this 20th-century art form that this book is at once a fresh, bold step forward in musicology and analysis. |
| Bibliography note | Includes bibliographical references and index. |
| LCCN | 2001054717 |
| ISBN | 0313314209 (alk. paper) |
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