Perspectives of New Music articles from June 1996

Perspectives of New Music archives from June 1996

Introduction to the pitch organization of French spectral music.
June 22, 1996... INTRODUCTION Gerard Grisey (b.1946) and Tristan Murail (b. 1947) are the two best-known French "spectral" composers. Their music promotes a very specific aesthetic which gives predominance to timbre, a trend already foreseen in the stance of...

The inner voices of simple things: a conversation with Paul Lansky. (interview with a musician)(Interview)
June 22, 1996... A NETWORK MODEL OF MUSIC In a 1990 article in Perspectives of New Music, you consider music as a process of network building.(1) Besides the three traditional nodes on this network - composer, performer, and audience - you add two new ones:...

Self-similar pitch structures, their duals, and rhythmic analogues.
June 22, 1996... To see a World in a Grain of Sand And a Heaven in a Wild Flower Hold Infinity in the Palm of your Hand And Eternity in an hour William Blake, "Auguries of Innocence" A self-similar structure is one that exhibits parallel construction at...

An interview with John Adams. (musician)
June 22, 1996... The following interview was conducted on 24 October 1995 while John Adams was in Louisville to receive the University of Louisville Grawemeyer Award for Music Composition for his Violin Concerto.(1) Adams composed the Violin Concerto between 7...

The interior monologue in Earl Kim's violin concerto. (musician/composer)
June 22, 1996... Earl Kim was born in Dinuba, California in 1920. He studied with Arnold Schonberg, Ernst Bloch, and Roger Sessions, and taught composition at Princeton from 1952 to 1967 and at Harvard from 1967 until 1990. Kim's music ranges from an almost tonal...

On Proportions. (lecture by composer Stepan Wolpe)
June 22, 1996... TRANSLATOR'S INTRODUCTORY NOTE On proportions" ("Vortag uber Proportionen") is not only a lecture: it is also a kind of theater piece, to be enacted by Stefan Wolpe (along with two pianists to play its forty-one musical examples). Half...

The music of Sylvano Bussotti. (contemporary Italian musician/composer)
June 22, 1996... The music of Sylvano Bussotti is among the most interesting and underappreciated written in the last half-century. All too often Bussotti is dismissed as "one of those graphic composers" of the early sixties, whose scores looked pretty but were...

Miriam Gideon: a memorial tribute. (composer, scholar and music teacher)(Obituary)
June 22, 1996... INTRODUCTION Composer, scholar, and dedicated teacher, Miriam Gideon had a fulfilling, productive, long, and distinguished career in music. With the sad news of her death on 18 June 1996, close friends and the contemporary music community, of...

Composition (not philosophy): James Pritchett's 'The Music of John Cage.'
June 22, 1996... John Cage was many things to many people - an extraordinarily prolific composer, performer, teacher, essayist, aesthetician, painter, and poet. He was known for his avid and often learned pursuit of subjects other than music, such as Zen...

The Music of John Cage.
June 22, 1996... John Cage was many things to many people - an extraordinarily prolific composer, performer, teacher, essayist, aesthetician, painter, and poet. He was known for his avid and often learned pursuit of subjects other than music, such as Zen...

A ((P)Re)View of Elaine Barkin's twenty-year retrospective collection of her works for print. (musician/composer)(includes index)
June 22, 1996... Before the end of 1997, open space will issue a printbook containing works for print (essays, textpieces, graphics, collages) composed over the last twenty or so years by Elaine Barkin. Its title is e: an anthology. It includes as an endpaper a...