Perspectives of New Music articles from January 1 2003

Perspectives of New Music archives from January 1 2003

Xenakis: ... tireless renewal at every instant, at every death ...(Iannia Xenakis)(Critical Essay)
January 1, 2003... XENAKIS WAS A MAN of keen intellect, with a sardonic, bird-of-prey character. He was by turns imperious or vulnerable, impish or implacably unforgiving, which is to say that--as is true of any complex being--he both represented himself and was...

Toward an interpretation of Xenakis's Nomos alpha.(Critical Essay)
January 1, 2003... Art, and above all, music has a fundamental function, which is to catalyze the sublimation that it can bring about through all means of expression. It must aim through fixations which are landmarks to draw towards a total exaltation in which...

Xenakis in miniature: style and structure in a r. (Hommage a Ravel) for piano (1987).
January 1, 2003... INTRODUCTION BETWEEN THE EARLY 1970s and the late 1990s Iannis Xenakis composed several short works for solo instruments and for small ensembles. Because of their limited duration and minimal instrumentation, these works may be thought of...

The writings of Iannis Xenakis (starting with Formalized Music).
January 1, 2003... XENAKIS'S OUTPUT was most prolific, not only of musical works but also of prose. His bibliography is impressive, both in relation to his contemporaries and from an historical perspective. (1) For the moment, over 160 articles have been...

"Absolute purity projected into sound": Goeyvaerts, Heidegger and early serialism.
January 1, 2003... RESEARCH FELLOW OF THE FUND FOR SCIENTIFIC RESEARCH--FLANDERS (BELGIUM) 1. INTRODUCTION AT THE DARMSTADT SUMMER COURSES of 1951, Karel Goeyvaerts and Karlheinz Stockhausen played the second part of Goeyvaerts's Nr. 1, the sonata for...

Field notes: a study of fixed-pitch formations.
January 1, 2003... THIS ARTICLE INVESTIGATES a technique of pitch organization that is common in post-tonal music, involving static formations I call "pitch fields." After an introductory example and a brief, informal survey of pitch-field properties and their...

David Lewin. (Editorial Notes).(passed away May 5, 2003)(Brief Article)(Obituary)
January 1, 2003... David Lewin passed away May 5, 2003. He will be sorely missed by the community of music scholars and composers, and by the Perspectives of New Music community. He served actively on the Editorial Board of Perspectives from 1972 through 1999. It...

Correspondence.(Letter to the Editor)
January 1, 2003... 30 March 2003 Dear Editors: It was troubling to read Julia Werntz's "Adding Pitches" in your issue 39:2. What might have been a valuable introduction to the remarkable and subtle 72-tone-equal-temperament music of Joseph Maneri was...