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Subject(s)

• Spectral music—History and criticism [Browse]
• Music—20th century—History and criticism [Browse]
• Music—21st century—History and criticism [Browse]

Editor

• Bauer, Amy Marie [Browse]
• Cagney, Liam, 1983- [Browse]
• Mason, Will [Browse]

Series

• Oxford handbooks [More in this series]
• Oxford handbook

Summary note

"The handbook presents a cross-section of the current scholarly and creative activity related to the spectral music movement and its legacy, from its founding in the mid-1970's to the current day. It will appeal to scholars, composers, and students desiring to become better acquainted with the broad influence of spectral music"-- Provided by publisher.

Notes

Includes index.

Bibliographic references

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Contents

• Introduction. Introduction / The Editors
• Spectral Precedents. Skryabin's Mystical Space and the Spectral Attitude / Kenneth Smith ; Varèse and spectral resonance / Matthew Mendez ; Olivier Messiaen : Spectralist / Robert Sholl ; Paul Hindemith's Technologically Mediated Concept of Nature / Alexandra Monchick ; Scelsi's Pfhat : Apparitions of a Monumental Past / Rebecca Leydon ; György Ligeti as a Forerunner to Spectral Composition / Benjamin Levy ; A Short History of Just Intonation in America / Kyle Gann ; James Tenney and the Theory of Harmony / Robert Wannamaker ; The Incorporeal Music of Eliane Radigue / Charles Curtis
• Spectralisms. Gérard Grisey and Spectra as Theoretical and Practical Models / Féron, François-Xavier ; Hugues Dufourt and the Origins of His World / Marilyn Nonken ; Tristan Murail's Poetics of Music / Liam Cagney ; Timbre, Technology, and Hybridization in the Music of Michael Levïnas / Eddie Campbell ; Timbral-Harmonic Hierarchy in Claude Vivier's Lonely Child / Christopher Gainey ; On Saariaho's Microsonology / Judith Lochhead ; Spectralism as "Spiritual Breakthrough" in the Music of Jonathan Harvey / Arnold Whittall ; Spectral aesthetics and slow listening in the music of Helena Tulve / Amy Bauer ; Philippe Leroux and the Notion of the Post-Spectral / Paul Clift ; Peter Ablinger and the Liminal Voice / Rebecca Flore ; Harmonic structure, optics, and ideology in the music of Georg Friedrich Haas / Amy Bauer and Landon Morrison ; Psychedelic Rock, Techno, and the Music of Fausto Romitelli / Alessandro Arbo
• Spectralism in cross-cultural context. Horațiu Rădulescu and the Intangible Dimensions of Plasmatic Music / Liviu Marinescu ; Jean Louis Florentz and Spectralism / Robert Sholl ; Transcending Ethnic Borders in Spectral Music / Yayoi Uno Everett ; Spectralism in the Service of Expression and Irishness in the Music of Donnacha Dennehy / Nicole Grimes
• Spectral Performance Practices. An Attitude Towards the Performance of Spectral Music / Marilyn Nonken ; Performing Spectral Ensemble Works by Grisey and Dumitrescu / Richard Carrick ; 'Sources, aesthetics and performance in Rădulescu's Piano Sonatas' / Ian Pace
• Critical and Material Perspectives. Sound in Itself : the French theorization of timbre / James Steintrager ; The Phenomenological Turn in Romanian Spectralism / Aaron Hayes ; Spectralism and Research in Psychoacoustics and Music Perception / Philippe Lalitte ; French Spectral music and improvisation / Stephen Lehman ; Expression and Technologies of Perception in DiCastri and Adamcyk's Phonobellow / William Mason ; Dynamic Form and Models for Analyzing Processive Form in Spectral Music / Joshua Banks Mailman ; (Title undergoing revision) / Lucas Haselböck
• Spectral composers on their work. Spectral Methodology of the Virtual and Physical in the Sonic Art of Patricia Alessandrini / Patricia Alessandrini and Timothy Rutherford-Johnson ; Edmund Campion's Spectral Influences / Edmund Campion ; Embodied Practice and Historical Aspectuality in Ken Ueno's "Person-Specific" Concertos / Ken Ueno ; Jean Luc Hervé and his Aesthetic of Surroundings / Jean Luc Hervé ; Sounds and Spectra as Symbols / Jacob Sudol.

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ISBN

• 9780190633547 (hardcover)
• 0190633549 (hardcover)

LCCN

2024054796

OCLC

1472195573

Other standard number

• CIPO000251477

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