The Boulez-Cage CorrespondenceCambridge University Press, 1993 - 168 Seiten Between May 1949 and August 1954 the composers Pierre Boulez and John Cage exchanged a series of remarkable letters that reflect on their own music and the culture of the time. This correspondence, together with other relevant documents, has been edited and annotated by Jean-Jacques Nattiez and is now available for the first time in English in a paperback edition. |
Inhalt
Letters and documents | 27 |
between 20 and 24 May 1949 | 32 |
November 1949 | 33 |
4 December 1949 | 37 |
Forerunners of Modern Music March 1949 | 38 |
3 11 and 12 January 1950 | 43 |
17 January 1950 | 46 |
April 1950 | 51 |
30 December 1950 | 80 |
between 7 and 21 May 1951 | 90 |
22 May 1951 | 92 |
between 22 May and 17 July 1951 | 97 |
17 July 1951 | 98 |
19512 | 104 |
summer 1951 | 109 |
after 6 October 1951 | 111 |
February 1950 | 54 |
before April 1950 | 56 |
May 1950 | 57 |
5 June 1950 | 60 |
June 1950 | 62 |
21 June 1950 | 65 |
June 1950 | 66 |
late June early July 1950 | 67 |
2 July 1950 | 68 |
26 July 1950 | 69 |
after 18 July 1950 | 70 |
July or August 1950 | 71 |
probably August 1950 | 72 |
probably August 1950 | 73 |
1 September 1950 | 74 |
autumn 1950 | 75 |
18 December 1950 | 77 |
December 1951 | 112 |
before 21 May 1952 | 127 |
19512 | 128 |
summer 1952 | 130 |
1 October 1952 | 133 |
October 1952 | 136 |
2 November 1952 | 139 |
1953 | 140 |
1 May 1953 | 142 |
after 18 June 1953 | 144 |
July 1954 | 146 |
end Julybeginning August 1954 | 151 |
article Cage for the Encyclopédie Fasquelle 1958 | 152 |
5 September 1962 | 153 |
Biographical glossary | 156 |
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The Boulez-Cage Correspondence Pierre Boulez,John Cage,Jean Jacques Nattiez Keine Leseprobe verfügbar - 1993 |
Häufige Begriffe und Wortgruppen
American composer Barrault Boulez to John Cage to Pierre Cage's chance chart Christian Wolff Compagnie Renaud-Barrault complex composition concert Contrepoints correspondence Cowell dance David Tudor dear John Dear Pierre duration edition experimental music film French composer frequency Gatti give going hear Heugel hope idea Imaginary Landscape instruments Jameux Joffroy John Cage lecture Leibowitz Letter from John Letter from Pierre Maro Ajemian Masselos Messiaen Middlebury Morton Feldman Music of Changes musique concrète orchestra organization Paris Paul Sacher percussion performance Peyser pianist piece Pierre Boulez Pierre Schaeffer pitch play Polyphonie Polyphonie X possible première prepared piano published Quartet radio recording refers retrogradable rhythm rhythmic structure Rue Beautreillis Schaeffer Schoenberg Second Sonata Silence soleil des eaux Sonatas and Interludes sound Souvtchinsky Stockhausen Stocktakings Stravinsky strings tape tell timbre tones total serialism translation Virgil Thomson Webern write written wrote York Yvonne Loriod
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Seite 9 - Before this happens, centers of experimental music must be established. In these centers, the new materials, oscillators, turntables, generators, means for amplifying small sounds, film phonographs, etc., available for use. Composers at work using twentieth-century means for making music. Performances of results. Organization of sound for extra-musical purposes (theatre, dance, radio, film).
Seite 14 - Structure is properly mind-controlled. Both delight in precision, clarity, and the observance of rules. Whereas form wants only freedom to be. It belongs to the heart; and the law it observes, if indeed it submits to any, has never been and never will be written.1 Method may be planned or improvised (it makes no difference: in one case, the emphasis shifts towards thinking, in the other towards feeling; a piece for radios as instruments would give up the matter of method to accident). Likewise, material...
Seite 20 - No, Sir, I have not lost him." The other asked: "Have you not lost your friend?" "No, Sir, I have not lost my friend either." The third traveller asked: "Are you not here in order to enjoy the fresh air?
Seite 20 - The most superficial way of trying to influence others is through talk that has nothing real behind it.