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Pierre Boulez?s sur Incises and its World
 
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ISBN13:9781032507675
ISBN10:1032507675
Binding:Hardback
No. of pages:284 pages
Size:234x156 mm
Language:English
Illustrations: 105 Illustrations, black & white; 105 Line drawings, black & white; 22 Tables, black & white
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Pierre Boulez?s sur Incises and its World

 
Edition number: 1
Publisher: Routledge
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Short description:

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.

Long description:

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. 

Table of Contents:

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