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 Taking this approach, David Cline marshals a wide range of source materials - many previously unpublished - in clarifying the ideology, organisation and generative history of these graphs and their formative role in the chronicle of post-war music.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.
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David Cline provides a detailed analysis of Morton Feldman's groundbreaking graph music and its considerable impact upon the development of post-war classical music. This book highlights the influence of contemporary art on Feldman's works and explores his relationships with Earle Brown, John Cage, Christian Wolff and David Tudor.
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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 Two unpublished graphs; Appendix 2.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.
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David Cline provides a detailed analysis of Morton Feldman's graph works and how they changed the course of post-war music.

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ISBN
9781107109230
Publisert
2016-05-26
Utgiver
Vendor
Cambridge University Press
Vekt
950 gr
Høyde
253 mm
Bredde
180 mm
Dybde
23 mm
Aldersnivå
06, P
Språk
Product language
Engelsk
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Product format
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Antall sider
410

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Biographical note

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.