Patricia Hall / Friedemann Sallis (eds.)

A Handbook to Twentieth-Century Musical Sketches

Herausgeber: Sallis, Friedemann; Hall, Patricia

• Gebundenes Buch

Produktbeschreibung

This indispensable handbook, first published in 2004, explains how scholars and students should work with and think about the composer's working manuscripts. This book surveys the knowledge necessary to work efficiently in archives and libraries housing this material and with the skills and techniques specifically related to sketch studies: transcription, reconstructing sketchbooks, deciphering handwriting, dating documents. It deals with the music of important twentieth-century composers and presents visual examples of manuscripts from the collections of world-renowned institutions such as the Paul Sacher Foundation. The book aims to make the work of both researchers and students more efficient and rewarding.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Cambridge University Press
• Seitenzahl: 270
• Erscheinungstermin: 18. Juni 2014
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 250mm x 175mm x 19mm
• Gewicht: 650g
• ISBN-13: 9780521808606
• ISBN-10: 052180860X
• Artikelnr.: 22229525

Autorenporträt

Patricia Hall is Associate Professor of Music Theory at the Department of Music, University of California, Santa Barbara. She is the author of A View of Berg's 'Lulu' through the Autograph Sources (1997). She has also contributed to several works including The Cambridge Companion to Alban Berg (1996) and has written articles and reviews for a number of journals.
Friedemann Sallis is Professor titulaire at the Département de musique, Université de Moncton. He is the author of An Introduction to the Early Works of György Ligeti (1996). He also contributed to Music of the Twentieth-Century Avant-Garde (L. Sitsky ed., 2002) and has published numerous articles on music of the nineteenth and twentieth centuries.

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.