Analytical studies of the music of Ashley, Cage, Carter, Dallapiccola, Feldman, Lucier, Reich, Satie, Schoenberg, Wolff, and Xenakis : essays in contemporary music / Thomas DeLio ; edited by Patricia Burt ; with a preface by Christopher Shultis.
Collects DeLio's major analytical essays from 1980-2000.
Bibliography
Includes bibliographical references (pages 345-351) and discography (pages 353-356).
Contents
The morphology of a global structure : John Cage's Variations II (1980) -- Spatial design in Elliott Carter's Canon for 3 (1980) -- The dialectics of structure and materials : Iannis Xenakis' Nomos alpha (1980) -- Structural pluralism : Robert Ashley's in memoriam...Esteban Gomez (1981) -- Structure as context (1981) -- Steve Reich (1981) -- Toward an art of imminence : Morton Feldman's Durations III, #3 (1983) -- The shape of sound : Alvin Lucier's Music for pure waves, bass drums and acoustic pendulums (1983) -- Structure as behavior : Christian Wolff's For one, two or three people (1984) -- A proliferation of canons : Luigi Dallapiccola's Goethe Lieder nos. 2 and 6 (1985/87) -- Structure and strategy : Iannis Xenakis' Linaia-agon (1987) -- Time transfigured : Erik Satie's Parade (1993) -- Language and form in an early atonal composition : Schoenberg's op. 19 #2 (1994) -- Morton Feldman's Last pieces #3 (1996) -- On Christian Wolff (2000).