The Voice of Music (eBook, ePUB)

Conversations with Composers of Our Time
Redaktion: Beyer, Anders / Übersetzer: Christensen, Jean

• Format: ePub

Produktbeschreibung

First published in 2000, this volume is a collection of interviews selected from issues published since 1990 by Anders Beyer, the journal's editor-in-chief, giving an up-to-date picture of the North European musical perspectives through interviews with composers from each of the Nordic countries.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Taylor & Francis
• Seitenzahl: 354
• Erscheinungstermin: 11. Juni 2019
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9781351745147
• Artikelnr.: 56959106

Autorenporträt

Anders Beyer (b. 1958, Denmark) editor, author and critic, graduated in musicology from the Institute of Musicology, University of Copenhagen. In addition to his work as a critic for the national daily newspaper, Information, he edits Dansk Musik Tidsskrift (Danish Music Review) and Nordic Sounds. He has taught twentieth-century music history at the University of Copenhagen, and he is a consultant and writer for The New Grove Dictionary of Music and Musicians and Musik in Geschichte und Gegenwart (MGG). Beyer is editor of the book The Music of Per Norgard. Fourteen Interpretative Essays, Scolar Press, 1996.

Inhaltsangabe

1. Introduction
Jean Christensen. 2. An Art Without Ideology
Gyorgy Ligeti. 3. The Poetry of Opposition
Karl Aage Rasmussen. 4. Into the Labyrinth of the Soul
Sofia Gubaidulina. 5. Composer and Optimist
Porkell Sigurbjornsson. 6. A Multifaceted Sonic Explorer
Olav Anton Thommessen. 7. A Refined Primitive
Erik Bergman. 8. My Unattainable Goal
Vagn Holmboe. 9. A Composer on Inclined Planes
Per Norgard. 10. On Articulating the Existential Scream
Arne Nordheim. 11. Every Day Brings New Discoveries
Karlheinz Stockhausen. 12. Music Must Bring Light
Edison Denisov. 13. My Great Need for Expression
Ingvar Lidholm. 14. An Established Outsider
Pelle Gudmundsen-Holmgreen. 15. The Work of Art as a True Presence
Hans Gefors. 16. Between Hope and Despair
Alfred Schnittke. 17. Giving Musical Form to your Thoughts
Jukka Tiensuu. 18. My Conscience is Clear
Tikhon Khrennikov. 19. Between Tradition and Renewal
Pawel Szymanski. 20. When Language Fails the World is Revealed
Philip Glass. 21. A New World of Sound
Magnus Lindberg. 22. A Distinctive Profile in New Music
Iannis Xenakis. 23. Colour
Timbre and Harmony
Kaija Saariaho.