Eva Mantzourani

The Life and Twelve-Note Music of Nikos Skalkottas (eBook, ePUB)

• Format: ePub

Produktbeschreibung

Eva Mantzourani provides a comprehensive study of this fascinating yet under-researched composer. The book comprises a critical biography, an exploration of Skalkottas's twelve-note compositional processes and analytical case studies, providing a diachronic framework within which Skalkottas's dodecaphonic compositional development can be more effectively viewed.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Taylor & Francis
• Seitenzahl: 440
• Erscheinungstermin: 3. März 2016
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9781317025597
• Artikelnr.: 44863841

Autorenporträt

Eva Mantzourani specializes in both Music Analysis and Musicology, and has a particular interest in the music of the Greek composer Nikos Skalkottas. She studied at the Aristotle University of Thessaloniki, Goldsmiths College, University of London, and King's College, University of London, where she received her PhD. She is a Reader in Music at Canterbury Christ Church University.

Inhaltsangabe

Contents: Introduction
Part I A Biographical Study: The early years in Greece (1904-1921)
The Berlin period
The Greek period. Part II Twelve-Note Technique: Introduction to part II
The sets and set-groups
Manipulation of the sets
Derivation techniques
Serial transformations: transposition, retrograde, inversion
Set structure and phrase structure
Set structure and large-scale form. Part III Twelve-Note Compositional Development: Case Studies: Introduction to part III
Berlin works
Linear serialism of the mid-1930s: 'strict' 12-note technique
Expansion of the mid-1930s 'strict' 12-note technique: first Symphonic Suite (1935)
Towards a free dodecaphonic technique
New directions in the last chamber works: tonal serialism
Epilogue
Appendices
Bibliography
Index.