A Handbook to Twentieth-Century Musical Sketches

Herausgeber: Hall, Patricia; Sallis, Friedemann

• Broschiertes Buch

Produktbeschreibung

This indispensable handbook explains how scholars and students should work with and think about the composer's working manuscripts.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Cambridge University Press
• Seitenzahl: 270
• Erscheinungstermin: 13. April 2012
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 246mm x 189mm x 15mm
• Gewicht: 529g
• ISBN-13: 9781107405400
• ISBN-10: 1107405408
• Artikelnr.: 35937921

Inhaltsangabe

Introduction Friedemann Sallis and Patricia Hall; 1. Sketches and sketching
Giselher Schubert and Friedemann Sallis; 2. Preliminaries before visiting
an archive Ulrich Mosch; 3. Archival etiquette Therese Muxeneder; 4. Coming
to terms with the composer's working manuscripts Friedemann Sallis; 5. The
classification of musical sketches exemplified in the catalogue of the
Archivio Luigi Nono Erika Schaller; 6. Digital preservation of archival
material William Koseluk; 7. Transcribing sketches Regina Busch; 8. A tale
of two sketchbooks: reconstructing and deciphering Alban Berg's sketchbooks
for Wozzeck Patricia Hall; 9. 'Written between the desk and the piano':
dating Béla Bartók's sketches László Somfai; 10. Defining compositional
process: idea and instrumentation in Igor Stravinsky's Ragtime (1918) and
Pribaoutki (1915) Tomi Mäkelä; 11. Floating hierarchies: organisation and
composition in works by Pierre Boulez and Karlheinz Stockhausen during the
1950s Pascal Decroupet; 12. Elliot Carter's sketches: spiritual exercises
and craftsmanship Denis Vermaelen; 13. E-Sketches: Brian Ferneyhough's use
of computer assisted compositional tools Ross Feller; 14. John Cage's
Williams Mix (1951-3): the restoration and new realizations of and
variations on the first octophonic, surround-sound tape composition Larry
Austin; Appendix. Select list of institutions housing manuscript
collections of twentieth-century composers.