The Music of Elliott Carter

The Music of Elliott Carter
ISBN-10
0801436125
ISBN-13
9780801436123
Category
Music
Pages
372
Language
English
Published
1998
Publisher
Cornell University Press
Authors
David Schiff, Elliott Carter

Description

The Music of Elliott Carter engages composers, performers, and critics and speaks to concert-goers, whether attuned to or alarmed by the formidable difficulty of Carter's music. David Schiff views the music from the perspective of the composer's development and relates his compositional techniques to those non-musical arts - contemporary American poetry in particular - with which Carter has been deeply involved. The volume benefits from Schiff's extensive discussions of Carter's works with their most noted performers, including Heinz Holliger, Oliver Knussen, and Ursula Oppens, and from the generous cooperation of the composer himself.

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