Elliott Carter Studies

Over the course of an astonishingly long career, Elliott Carter has engaged with many musical developments of the twentieth and now twenty-first centuries â€“ from his early neo-classic music of the interwar period, to his modernist works of conflict and opposition in the 1960s and 1970s, to the reshaping of a modernist aesthetic in his latest compositions. Elliott Carter Studies throws new light on these many facets of Carter's extensive musical oeuvre. This collection of essays presents historic, philosophic, philological and theoretical points of departure for in-depth investigations of individual compositions, stylistic periods in Carter's output and his contributions to a variety of genres, including vocal music, the string quartet and the concerto. The first multi-authored book to appear on Carter's music, it brings together new research from a distinguished team of leading international Carter scholars, providing the reader with a wide range of perspectives on an extraordinary musical life.

Preface
Overview: Music Early and Late:
The true significance of Elliott Carter's early works
Elliott Carter's late music
Analysis and Aesthetics:
The search for order: Carter's late-modern thematicism
Ritornello form in Carter's Boston and ASKO concertos
'The matter of human cooperation' in Carter's mature style
Time management: rhythm as a formal determinant in certain works of Elliott
'I try to write music that will appeal to an intelligent listener's ear': on Elliott Carter's string quartets
Composition with intervals: melodic invention in Elliott Carter's recent concertos
Sketch Studies:
Left by the wayside: Elliott Carter's unfinished sonatina for oboe and harpsichord
At the edge of creation: Elliott Carter's sketches in the Library of Congress
Music and Text:
Three Illusions ... and maybe a fourth: a hermeneutic approach to Carter's music
Layers of meaning: expression and design in Carter's songs
'It's as if our voices made no sound': irony in episodes 10-15 of What Next?
Words and music in The Defense of Corinth
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