The Musical Language of Pierre Boulez

Writings and Compositions

By:

Jonathan Goldman

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Paperback / softback

Series:

Music Since 1900

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Pierre Boulez is arguably the most influential composer of the second half of the twentieth century. Here, Jonathan Goldman provides a fresh appraisal of the composer's music, demonstrating how understanding the evolution of Boulez's ideas on musical form is an important step towards evaluating his musical thought generally. The theme of form arising from a grammar of oppositions - the legacy of structuralism - serves as a common thread in Boulez's output, and testifies to the constancy of Boulez's thought over and above his several notable aesthetic and stylistic changes. This book lends a voice to the musical works by using the writings - particularly the mostly untranslated collected Collège de France lectures (1976–95) - to comment on them. It also uses five musical works from the post-1975 period to exemplify concepts developed in Boulez's writings, presenting a vivid portrait of Boulez's extremely varied production.

Author Biography:

Jonathan Goldman is Associate Professor of Musicology at the Université de Montréal, and specializes in twentieth-century music history. Editor-in-Chief of the journal Circuit, musiques contemporaines, he wrote the preface to Leçons de musique (2005), a collection of Boulez's writings published in France.

Release date Australia

June 19th, 2014

Author

Jonathan Goldman

Audience

Professional & Vocational

Illustrations

75 Printed music items; 4 Halftones, unspecified; 61 Line drawings, unspecified

Pages

270

Series

Music Since 1900

Dimensions

170x244x14

ISBN-13

9781107673205

Product ID

22116956

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