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1. Harmony Book by Elliott Carter | |
Paperback: 369
Pages
(2002-07)
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Excellent
A Giant's Tool
Why bother?
Not your grandmother's harmony book
not for everyone, yet illuminating sometimes,perhaps not!! Carter has received numerous prizes but for his body of work the prizes seem to be arbitrary and marginal, we forget them because he has so many of them,like Oscars,who ever has more than one we forget about. We go(should go) directly toward the creative vigours structural or otherwise to the music, its incessant shapes, and convoluted designs,its virtuosic displays and its long range topologies of poly rhythms and other global durational frames. The Harmony Book here, (actually Two Volumes sewed into one here)began as a fairly modest endeavor, a practical accounting means, a way to remember certain configurations of tones, or intervallic transformations. No one can remember everything, so Carter began making these large 14 inch long sheets of these tones. All of this creative odyssey is retold within the interview with scholar John F. Link, who has devoted his analytic work to Carter's polyrhythms,and also this Harmony Book.A wonderful interview here with Carter. Volume One is a Catalogue/Synthesis of three note, four note, five note etc chords, and their tranpostions. It seems easier to contemplate these chords here as 1+2=3, or 3+2=5, for one isolated tone then followed by 2 more tones can powerfully direct the best,evocative,crisis moments in music, anyones.. This becomes especially relevant when one needs to account for 55 six note chords distribute graciously over the durations of a work,or controlling the succession of 80 or 90 tones followed, staggered, accelerated as the work's discourse unfolds. Volume 2 then is Analysis, a means of looking more deeply into the relationships of all this stuff, the tones, the intervals, the chords. There are moments of pure illumination as in the discussion on Carter's provocative/evocative Night Fantasies or when for instance one learns as in Carter's Third String Quartet, a work shaped by the Duets,One Violin with Viola, One Violin then with Cello, One group more stationary reduced to Five tones, the other Duet ensemble is free to explore all interval rows. I can't help thinking this is how international capital functions,in Argentina, in South Korea in today's neo-liberal mileau. There are also elaborate yet functional means of simple symbols, as a four note chord represented with a box, four point, then five note pentagon, and six, then what is referred to as the Sigla controlling and defining the entire array of tones,220 intervals and chords with all their additions.... There is a Glossary to help one wade through this fascinating Naming of the Father- game. There are also nice excerpts from Carter's music that helps embellish a point,much like conceptual menus for creativity. Then there is the dimension as to who or what controls whom. Does one need this Harmony Book to decepher the structural complexity within Carter's oeuvre. Does Carter need his own Book? And the answer is sometimes! for Carter said that he did break the tyranny of these alloted configurations simply to make the music more interesting. I guess that is the last horizon, the music must be interesting, how one got there is also interesting,perhaps more so or less so, it may become part of what we may now think of musical philosophy and the creativity, the last bastion known. ... Read more |
2. Elliott Carter: Collected Essays and Lectures, 1937-1995 by Elliott Carter | |
Paperback: 392
Pages
(1998-02)
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reflections of a great contemporary composer Elliott Carter enjoys a much higher level of recognition in Europe than in the U.S., where composers of schlocky film scores are vastly more popular (ie, "Star Wars").While noticed by only a few today, these writings will play a part in establishing Carter's future reputation as one of the greatest composers of the 20th century -- an American composer whether he was recognized by his contemporaries at home or not. ... Read more |
3. Flawed Words and Stubborn Sounds: A Conversation With Elliott Carter by Allen Edwards | |
Hardcover: 130
Pages
(1972-01)
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Carter and the flow of time in music
expositions of an American structural thinker There are great issues discussed here as the future of the orchestra, how difficult it has become to give everyone in the modern orchestra something to play. These interviews traverse only to 1971, Carter was on the threshold of his monumental Third String Quartet. But we obtain quite well thought out reflections of the darkly brooding "Piano Concerto",a work completed during a stay in Berlin with students, Rzewski among them, and the "Concerto for Orchestra". The latter he had fragmented the modern orchestra into 'concertini', small ensembles of fascinating timbres. Carter here is quite social in his reflections of tradition and the elitist endeavor of writing music. He reflects that we really cannot speak of a national consciousness for serious composers as Carter has so obviously becomein the past ten years. That perhaps writing music for the primary venues will be something for the past. And if we warp=speed to the present from 1971 we see the corporate agenda for orchestral commissions as Eisner's vacuous vision of "Mickey Mouse" giving music money to Alan Jay Kernis and Michael Torke for modern creations, creations quite obvious and predictable.Yet without points of interest. Carter reflects quite profoundly on his working methods, the five and seven tone chordal structures, in the "Piano Concerto", and The powerfully wrought "Concerto for Orchestra", the latter written during the Vietnam Times, of street anti-establishment rebellion. We learn the impetus of Carter's musical aesthetic as linear, the only aesthetic worth pursuing, and he makes a profoundly convincing arguments against contra the texture bound creations a la Stockhausen, where texture became boring after the first initial moments. Or he reflects deeply on the vacuity of serial thinking that never lets the EAR be the primary focus for music, rather the highly abstracted geometric sense of music not for the EAR but the self-indulgent mind. Shame this is out-of print, I have an old tattered copy that I cherish deeply. ... Read more |
4. The Music of Elliott Carter (Photos Not Included) by David Schiff | |
Hardcover: 372
Pages
(1998-11)
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Editorial Review Product Description Authoritative and gracefully written, The Music of Elliott Carter engages composers, performers, and critics, and speaks to concert-goers, whether attuned to or alarmed by the formidable difficulty of Carter's music. David Schiff views the music from the perspective of the composer's development and relates his compositional techniques to those nonmusical arts--contemporary American poetry in particular--with which Carter has been deeply involved. The volume benefits from Schiff's extensive discussions of Carter's works with their most noted performers, including Heinz Holliger, Oliver Knussen, and Ursula Oppens, and from the generous cooperation of the composer himself. This new edition, a thoroughly reorganized, revised, and updated version of the book published in 1983, accounts for the many new works written by Carter since 1980 and accommodates the burgeoning critical literature on his music. Its features include many musical examples and a selected discography. In addition to the new foreword, the composer has provided his listing of three-to-six note chords and a note on "Voyage." Customer Reviews (1)
Incredibly readable on greatstructural innovator |
5. String Quartet No. 3 (1971): Study Score | |
Paperback: 100
Pages
(1986-11-01)
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extemely intense music after a long gestation |
6. Elliott Carter: A Centennial Portrait in Letters and Documents by Felix Meyer, Anne C. Shreffler | |
Hardcover: 352
Pages
(2008-10-16)
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7. The Musical Languages of Elliott Carter by Charles Rosen | |
Hardcover:
Pages
(1984-12)
Isbn: 0317599763 Average Customer Review: Canada | United Kingdom | Germany | France | Japan | |
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Crucial insights to Carter's music, including the Stravinsky influence |
8. Symphonia: sum fluxae pretium spei: Full Score (Boosey & Hawkes Scores/Books) | |
Paperback: 260
Pages
(2008-12-01)
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9. Riding a Blue Horse: A Novel of Crime (Otto Penzler Books) by Carter Elliott | |
Hardcover: 224
Pages
(2003-06-09)
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Former CIA officer/special agent right on target
A very impressive debut
Ready for book II
Would make a good movie! |
10. Elliott Carter: A Centennial Celebration (Festschrift Series) by Marc Ponthus | |
Paperback: 122
Pages
(2008-08-01)
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11. Elliott Carter: Sketches And Scores In Manuscript by Richard Jackson | |
Paperback: 64
Pages
(1973-06)
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12. Percussion Masterclass on Works by Carter, Milhaud and Stravinsky (Meredith Music Resource) by Anthony J. Cirone, Morris Lang, Charles Dowd | |
Paperback: 64
Pages
(2010-10-01)
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13. Elliott Carter: A Guide to Research (Composer Resource Manuals) by John F. Link | |
Hardcover: 320
Pages
(2000-09-28)
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Info from the author |
14. Elliott Carter: A Bio-Bibliography (Bio-Bibliographies in Music) by William T. Doering | |
Hardcover: 208
Pages
(1993-11-30)
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15. Writings: An American Composer Looks at Modern Music by Carter Elliott Cook | |
Hardcover: 390
Pages
(1978-04)
Isbn: 0253367204 Canada | United Kingdom | Germany | France | Japan | |
16. String Quartet No. 2 (1959): Set of Parts | |
Paperback: 192
Pages
(1989-11-01)
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more classic inshape water mark |
17. Carter-Ruck on Libel and Slander by Peter F. Carter-Ruck | |
Hardcover: 737
Pages
(1997-10)
Isbn: 0406992487 Canada | United Kingdom | Germany | France | Japan | |
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18. Carter (Biblioteca di cultura musicale) (Italian Edition) by Elliott Carter | |
Paperback: 318
Pages
(1989)
Isbn: 887063051X Canada | United Kingdom | Germany | France | Japan | |
19. Sonata (1952): Set of Parts (Ensemble) by Elliott Carter | |
Paperback: 76
Pages
(1986-11-01)
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20. AMERICAN MUSIC FOR STRINGS - vinyl lp. SERENADE FOR STRING ORCHESTRA , OP. 1 - SERIOUS SONG - A LAMENT FOR STRING ORCHESTRA - ELEGY - ROUNDS FOR STRING ORCHESTRA - THE LOS ANGELES CHAMBER ORCHESTRA / GERARD SCHWARZ, CONDUCTOR by SAMUEL - IRVING FINE - ELLIOTT CARTER - DAVID DIAMOND BARBER | |
Unknown Binding:
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(1980)
Asin: B0041CTRAW Canada | United Kingdom | Germany | France | Japan | |
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