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Gérard Grisey and spectral music : composition in the information age / Liam Cagney

By: Material type: TextTextSeries: Music since 1900Publisher: Cambridge, United Kingdom ; New York, NY : Cambridge University Press, 2024Copyright date: ©2024Edition: First published 2024Description: xvi, 297 páginas : ilustraciones (blanco y negro), música notada ; 25 cmContent type:
  • Texto
Media type:
  • sin mediación
Carrier type:
  • volumen
ISBN:
  • 9781009399524
Subject(s): Genre/Form: LOC classification:
  • ML410.G923 C34 2024
Contents:
Introduction -- Part I. Grisey's Style: 1. Grisey's Early Formation (1960-1966) ; 2. Messiaen's Class and New Music in Late 1960s Paris (1967-1970) ; 3. Statistical Serialism and Vagues, chemins, le souffle (1970-1972) ; 4. On the Threshold: D'eau et de pierre (1972) -- Part II. Spectral Music: 5. Psychoacoustics and the New Compositional Framework (1973-1974) ; 6. L'Itinéraire and Synthetic Music (1973-1976) ; 7. New Dimensions (1976-1978) ; 8. Spectral Music and écriture liminale (1979-1982) -- Conclusion
Language Note: Texto en inglésBibliography: Incluye referencias bibliográficas (páginas 270-291) e índicesSummary: "This book is the first in-depth historical overview of spectral music, which is widely regarded, alongside minimalism, as one of the two most influential compositional movements of the last fifty years. Charting spectral music's development in France from 1972 to 1982, this ground-breaking study establishes how spectral music's innovations combined existing techniques from post-war music with the use of information technology. The first section focuses on Gérard Grisey, showing how he creatively developep techniques from Messiaen, Xenakis, Ligeti, Stockhausen, and Boulez towards a distinctive style of music based on groups of sounds mutating in time. The second section shows how a wider generation of young composers centred on the Parisian collective L'Itinéraire developep a common vision of music embracing seismic developments in psychoacoustics and computer sound synthesis. Framed against institutional and political developments in France, spectral music is shown as at once an inventive artistic response to the information age and a continuation nof the French colouristic tradition." (cubierta posterior)

Introduction -- Part I. Grisey's Style: 1. Grisey's Early Formation (1960-1966) ; 2. Messiaen's Class and New Music in Late 1960s Paris (1967-1970) ; 3. Statistical Serialism and Vagues, chemins, le souffle (1970-1972) ; 4. On the Threshold: D'eau et de pierre (1972) -- Part II. Spectral Music: 5. Psychoacoustics and the New Compositional Framework (1973-1974) ; 6. L'Itinéraire and Synthetic Music (1973-1976) ; 7. New Dimensions (1976-1978) ; 8. Spectral Music and écriture liminale (1979-1982) -- Conclusion

"This book is the first in-depth historical overview of spectral music, which is widely regarded, alongside minimalism, as one of the two most influential compositional movements of the last fifty years. Charting spectral music's development in France from 1972 to 1982, this ground-breaking study establishes how spectral music's innovations combined existing techniques from post-war music with the use of information technology. The first section focuses on Gérard Grisey, showing how he creatively developep techniques from Messiaen, Xenakis, Ligeti, Stockhausen, and Boulez towards a distinctive style of music based on groups of sounds mutating in time. The second section shows how a wider generation of young composers centred on the Parisian collective L'Itinéraire developep a common vision of music embracing seismic developments in psychoacoustics and computer sound synthesis. Framed against institutional and political developments in France, spectral music is shown as at once an inventive artistic response to the information age and a continuation nof the French colouristic tradition." (cubierta posterior)