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Boulez, Pierre

 
9780226840130: Music Lessons: The Collège De France Lectures: The Collège De France Lectures
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ISBN 10: 0226840131 ISBN 13: 9780226840130
Editorial: Univ of Chicago Pr, 2025

Sinopsis

A groundbreaking group of writings by French composer Pierre Boulez, his yearly lectures prepared for the Collège de France. 

Music Lessons marks the first publication in English of Pierre Boulez’s Collège de France lectures, written while he held the chair of Invention, Technique and Language in Music at the Collège between 1976 and 1995. Representing Boulez’s most significant writings from the period, the lectures offer a sustained intellectual engagement with one of the dominant figures of twentieth-century music, a consummate composer-conductor who remained central to the conversation around contemporary music until his death in 2016. Boulez explores, among other topics, the process through which a musical idea is realized in a full-fledged composition, the complementary roles of craft and inspiration and the degree to which the memory of other musical works can influence and change the act of creation. Boulez also gives a penetrating account of problems in classical music that are still present today, such as the conservatism of a musical community fixated on the repertory of the past. Woven into the discussion are stories of his own compositions and those of fellow composers whose work he engaged with in his many roles as teacher, thinker, and conductor: from Stravinsky to Stockhausen and Varèse, from Bartók to Berg, Debussy to Mahler and Wagner, and all the way back to his beloved J. S. Bach.

Including a foreword by semiologist Jean-Jacques Nattiez, who was for years close to the composer, this edition is also enriched by an illuminating preface by Jonathan Goldman. With an authoritative translation retaining Boulez’s fierce convictions, cutting opinions and signature wit, Music Lessons is an essential and entertaining volume.

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Pierre Boulez (1925–2016) was a French composer, conductor, and music theorist. He conducted with major orchestras in the United States and Europe, including the Cleveland Orchestra, the BBC Symphony Orchestra, the New York Philharmonic, the Chicago Symphony, and the Berlin Philharmonic. Jonathan Dunsby is professor of music theory at the Eastman School of Music, University of Rochester. Jonathan Goldman is professor of musicology at the Université de Montréal. Arnold Whittall is emeritus professor of music at King’s College London.

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Editorial
Univ of Chicago Pr
Año de publicación
2025
Idioma
Inglés
ISBN 10 
0226840131
ISBN 13 
9780226840130
Encuadernación
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Número de páginas
688
Editor
Dunsby Jonathan, Goldman Jonathan, Whittall Arnold
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