The Graph Music of Morton Feldman

Erscheinungsjahr 2018
ISBN: 978-1-107-52141-4
Verlag: Cambridge University Press

Buch, Englisch, 404 Seiten, Paperback, Format (B × H): 152 mm x 229 mm, Gewicht: 586 g

Reihe: Music since 1900

Morton Feldman is widely regarded as one of America's greatest composers. His music is famously idiosyncratic, but, in many cases, the way he presented it is also unusual because, in the 1950s and 1960s, he often composed in non-standard musical notations, including a groundbreaking variety on graph paper that facilitated deliberately imprecise specifications of pitch and, at times, other musical parameters. Feldman used this notation, intermittently, over seventeen years, producing numerous graph works that invite analysis as an evolving series. Taking this approach, David Cline marshals a wide range of source materials - many previously unpublished - in clarifying the ideology, organisation and generative history of these graphs and their formative role in the chronicle of post-war music. This assists in pinpointing connections with Feldman's compositions in other formats, works by other composers, notably John Cage, and contemporary currents in painting. Performance practice is examined through analysis of Feldman's non-notated preferences and David Tudor's celebrated interpretations.

Autoren/Hrsg.

Cline, David

Fachgebiete

• Geisteswissenschaften Kunst Kunstgeschichte Kunstgeschichte: 20./21. Jahrhundert
• Geisteswissenschaften Geschichtswissenschaft Geschichtliche Themen Kultur- und Ideengeschichte
• Geisteswissenschaften Geschichtswissenschaft Weltgeschichte & Geschichte einzelner Länder und Gebietsräume Weltgeschichte
• Geisteswissenschaften Musikwissenschaft Geschichte der Musik Geschichte der Musik: Klassische Musik des 20./21. Jahrhunderts
• Geisteswissenschaften Musikwissenschaft Musikwissenschaft Allgemein Einzelne Komponisten und Musiker
• Geisteswissenschaften Kunst Kunstformen, Kunsthandwerk Installations-, Aktions-, Computer- und Videokunst
• Geisteswissenschaften Musikwissenschaft Geschichte der Musik Geschichte der Musik: Klassik (ca. 1750-1830)
• Geisteswissenschaften Geschichtswissenschaft Geschichtliche Themen Mentalitäts- und Sozialgeschichte
• Geisteswissenschaften Kunst Kunstformen, Kunsthandwerk Malerei: Gemälde

Inhaltsverzeichnis

Introduction; 1. Early graphs, 1950–3; 2. Later graphs, 1958–67; 3. Notation; 4. Ideology; 5. Holism; 6. Compositional methods I; 7. Compositional methods II; 8. Non-notated preferences; 9. Tudor's performances; 10. Connections with works in other notations; 11. Moving on; Epilogue; Appendix 1. Two unpublished graphs; Appendix 2. Other perspectives on compositional methods.

Über Autor(innen)

Cline, David
David Cline completed his Ph.D. in Music at Goldsmiths, University of London in 2011 and was a fellow of the Institute of Musical Research at the School of Advanced Study, University of London from 2013 to 2015. His research has appeared in Perspectives of New Music and Twentieth-Century Music.