Perspectives of New Music articles from June 2000

Perspectives of New Music archives from June 2000

Reading the Runes.(deciphering first-draft scores of Peter Maxwell Davies)
June 22, 2000... RESEARCHERS INTERESTED in the music of Peter Maxwell Davies have long been aware of a problem relating to the interpretation of the precompositional workings and first-draft scores in the available sketch material: the presence of a personal...

Dialogue De L'Ombre Double: Construction By Assemblage.(Pierre Boulez)(Critical Essay)(Illustration)
June 22, 2000... What is...important...is the dialectic of composition. Pierre Boulez, Orientations PUBLISHED IN 1985, Dialogue de l'ombre double by Pierre Boulez is scored for one live clarinet and one prerecorded clarinet, both usually performed by...

Broken and Unbroken Interval Cycles and their Use in Determining Pitch-Class set Resemblance.(Statistical Data Included)
June 22, 2000... THE THIRD SONG of Dallapiccola's Quattro Liriche di Antonio Machado ends with a series of six-note chords in the piano part (Example 1). (1) The first chord, repeated and held through measure 80, is a member of set class (SC) 6-Z28 [013569];...

Balzano and Zweifel: Another Look at Generalized Diatonic Scales.
June 22, 2000... I. INTRODUCTION NEARLY THIRTY YEARS AGO, an alternative basis for the derivation of the Western diatonic scale was proposed by Budden (1972), and developed more recently by Balzano (1980). This alternative basis is derived from Group...

Nancarrow's Canons: Projections of Temporal and Formal Structures.(Conlon Nancarrow )(Critical Essay)
June 22, 2000... RARELY HAS A COMPOSER been devoted as persistently to the compositional technique of canon as Conlon Nancarrow (1912-1997). Some three-quarters of his fifty-one "Studies" for player piano feature canons, often strict canons of two to twelve...

Debussy's "Soupir": An Experiment in Permutational Analysis.(Critical Essay)
June 22, 2000... I What attracted me in Mallarme, at the stage I had reached at that time, was the extraordinary formal density of his poems. Not only was the content truly extraordinary...but never has the French language been taken so far in the matter...

For Marty.(Martin Boykan's Fourth String Quartet)(Brief Article)(Critical Essay)
June 22, 2000... MIDWAY THROUGH the initial presentation of ideas in the first movement of Martin Boykan's Fourth String Quartet, an octave line enters in the second violin and viola. After the Coriolanian imperative at the movement's opening, this moment...

Echoes of Petrarch: Martin Boykan and Musical Narrative.
June 22, 2000... THROUGHOUT THE TWENTIETH CENTURY, musical analysis placed a peculiar emphasis on structure as a means of validation. From Schenker's Ursatz to Forte's pitch-class set complexes, theoretical systems have implicitly asserted that a piece's...

To Martin Boykan on His Seventieth Birthday.(Brief Article)
June 22, 2000... [MUSICAL NOTES NOT REPRODUCIBLE IN ASCII] ROSS BAUER teaches composition and is Chair of the Music Department at the University of California, Davis. He has also taught at Stanford and Brandeis Universities. Founder and Director of Empyrean...

A Musical Moment (I Hope) for Marty.
June 22, 2000... [MUSICAL NOTES NOT REPRODUCIBLE IN ASCII] HAYES BIGGS holds the Doctor of Musical Arts degree in composition from Columbia University, a Master of Music degree from Southern Methodist University, and a Bachelor of Music degree in piano...

Invention: To Marty Boykan at 70.(Brief Article)
June 22, 2000... IN DIFFERENT TO FASHION, oblivious to ready-made solutions, resistant to categorization, Martin Boykan's music is a splendid standard-bearer for our embattled new music. It is music of density and precision, but also of breadth and poetry, and...

Fanfare for Marty.(2001 Goddard Lieberson Fellowship)(Brief Article)
June 22, 2000... [MUSICAL NOTES NOT REPRODUCIBLE IN ASCII] LOUIS KARCHIN, a composer, is the recipient of a 2001 Goddard Lieberson Felonwship from the American Academy of Arts and Letters. His music is published by C.F. Peters Corporation and is available...

Fof Martin Boykan's Birthday Festschrift.(Brief Article)
June 22, 2000... I FIRST GOT TO KNOW Marty Boykan through his music. I heard Eric Moe perform Marty's Fantasy Sonata on an Earplay concert in San Francisco, and I was bowled over. The piece was beautiful and extremely lyrical, and formally it was crystal clear....

Encomium.(Martin Boykan)(Brief Article)
June 22, 2000... AS A STUDENT at Brandeis in the 1970s, I had the good fortune to take a number of Martin Boykan's classes (in fact, anything I could find that he taught). From his course on the Schoenberg Trio to his composition seminar, to his proseminar in...

Stravagamza XIV for Piano.(Richard Swift)(Brief Article)
June 22, 2000... [MUSICAL NOTES NOT REPRODUCIBLE IN ASCII] RICHARD SWIFT, Professor of Music emeritus, University of California, Davis, has recently completed STANZAS for two pianos which will receive its premiere in the autumn of 2001.