Pierre Boulez’s sur Incises and its World - Peter O'Hagan

Pierre Boulez’s sur Incises and its World

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Buch | Hardcover
270 Seiten
2024
Routledge (Verlag)
978-1-032-50767-5 (ISBN)
168,35 inkl. MwSt
Performer and researcher Peter O’Hagan studies the musical style of Pierre Boulez during his final creative period, by means of a detailed consideration of the ensemble work sur Incises, which stands at the heart of Boulez’s later output.

O’Hagan offers a unique blend of perceptions stemming from playing as well as analysing Boulez’s piano music. It is examined in the context of the group of works based on the cipher derived from the name of the dedicatee, Paul Sacher. With one exception, these works are dominated by the keyboard, and sur Incises is examined in relation both to them and to the composer’s output as a whole. An absorbing narrative elucidates the complex evolution of sur Incises, informed by a study of the considerable body of sketches and drafts. O’Hagan sheds new light on the creative process, not only in this work, but more generally on Boulez as a dominant force in music since 1950.

The book will be of interest not only to specialists in the field of contemporary music but to musicology students and a wider public interested in the work of one of the dominating creative personalities of our time.

Peter O’Hagan is a pianist and writer specialising in contemporary music. He is editor of British Music of the 1990s (Ashgate 2003), co-editor of Boulez Studies (2016) and author of Pierre Boulez and the Piano (Routledge 2016).

Introduction

PART 1

Pierre Boulez and Paul Sacher

1. Mein Lieber Pierre … Cher Paul

2. The cipher at play

3. Spirals

PART 2

The culmination of a friendship

4. Derivations and fragments

5. To Paul Sacher on the occasion of his ninetieth birthday

6. Primus inter pares?

7. Variations and reminiscences

8. A Coda … and a codetta

9. Imagine… a blank page

Appendix: Interview with Dimitri Vassilakis

Erscheint lt. Verlag 30.12.2024
Reihe/Serie Ashgate Studies in Theory and Analysis of Music After 1900
Zusatzinfo 22 Tables, black and white; 105 Line drawings, black and white; 105 Illustrations, black and white
Verlagsort London
Sprache englisch
Maße 156 x 234 mm
Themenwelt Kunst / Musik / Theater Musik Instrumentenkunde
Kunst / Musik / Theater Musik Klassik / Oper / Musical
ISBN-10 1-032-50767-5 / 1032507675
ISBN-13 978-1-032-50767-5 / 9781032507675
Zustand Neuware
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