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Gerhard on Music: Selected Writings

Author(s): Gerhard, Roberto; Bowen, Meirion
ISBN10: 0754600092
ISBN13: 9780754600091
Cover: Hardcover
 
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Table of Contents
Acknowledgements viii
List of plates
x
Chronology of Gerhard's Life and Work xi
Introduction 1(8)
I Composer and Public
Listening to music (1930)
9(2)
The composer and his audience (1960)
11(6)
Sound and symbol (1957)
17(7)
The contemporary musical situation (1956)
24(13)
II Tradition and Innovation
Music at the court of Alfonso V the Magnanimous (1936)
37(2)
A note on Felipe Pedrell (c. 1940)
39(2)
New musical methods (1930)
41(12)
Music and poetry (1935)
53(6)
III Contemporary Composers 1929--1939
Hanns Eisler (1898--1982)
59(3)
Bartok
62(3)
Ildebrando Pizzetti
65(2)
Baltasa Samper
67(1)
Some Composers from Madrid
68(9)
IV Music and Drama
Opera (1930)
77(2)
Music and film (1930)
79(2)
The Duenna (1949)
81(7)
Music and ballet
88(15)
V New Horizons
Schoenberg, Twelve-note music and serialism Schoenberg in Barcelona (1932)
103(11)
On composition with twelve notes (1954)
114(2)
Tonality in twelve-tone music (1952)
116(13)
Developments in twelve-tone technique (1956)
129(10)
Alban Berg: obituary (1936)
139(3)
Webern
142(6)
Twelve-note technique in Stravinsky (1957)
148(9)
Functions of the series in twelve-note composition (1960)
157(20)
VI Music in a Post-war Context
England, spring 1945
177(3)
Concrete music and electronic sound composition (1959)
180(7)
Sound observed (1965)
187(9)
The Plague (1964)
196(3)
Introduction to Symphony No. 2 (1959)
199(2)
``Is Modern Music Growing Old?'' (1960)
201(10)
Art and anarchy (1961)
211(5)
The Muse and music today (1962)
216(10)
An inaugural lecture (1961)
226(8)
Notes 234(10)
Appendix I: Chronological list of Gerhard's writings 244(4)
Appendix II: List of musical compositions by Gerhard and selected discography 248(19)
Selected bibliography 267(4)
Index 271

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