The Oxford handbook of spectral music / edited by Amy Bauer, Liam Cagney, and William Mason.

Other author Bauer, Amy Marie.
Other author Cagney, Liam, 1983-
Other author Mason, Will.
Format Electronic
Edition[1.]
Publication InfoNew York : Oxford University Press, 2025.
Descriptionvolumes cm
Supplemental ContentFull text available from Oxford Handbooks Online Music
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SeriesOxford handbooks series
Contents Introduction. Introduction / The Editors -- Spectral Precedents. Skryabin's Mystical Space and the Spectral Attitude / Kenneth Smith ; Varèse and spectral resonance / Matthew Mendez ; Olivier Messiaen : Spectralist / Robert Sholl ; Paul Hindemith's Technologically Mediated Concept of Nature / Alexandra Monchick ; Scelsi's Pfhat : Apparitions of a Monumental Past / Rebecca Leydon ; György Ligeti as a Forerunner to Spectral Composition / Benjamin Levy ; A Short History of Just Intonation in America / Kyle Gann ; James Tenney and the Theory of Harmony / Robert Wannamaker ; The Incorporeal Music of Eliane Radigue / Charles Curtis -- Spectralisms. Gérard Grisey and Spectra as Theoretical and Practical Models / Féron, François-Xavier ; Hugues Dufourt and the Origins of His World / Marilyn Nonken ; Tristan Murail's Poetics of Music / Liam Cagney ; Timbre, Technology, and Hybridization in the Music of Michael Levïnas / Eddie Campbell ; Timbral-Harmonic Hierarchy in Claude Vivier's Lonely Child / Christopher Gainey ; On Saariaho's Microsonology / Judith Lochhead ; Spectralism as "Spiritual Breakthrough" in the Music of Jonathan Harvey / Arnold Whittall ; Spectral aesthetics and slow listening in the music of Helena Tulve / Amy Bauer ; Philippe Leroux and the Notion of the Post-Spectral / Paul Clift ; Peter Ablinger and the Liminal Voice / Rebecca Flore ; Harmonic structure, optics, and ideology in the music of Georg Friedrich Haas / Amy Bauer and Landon Morrison ; Psychedelic Rock, Techno, and the Music of Fausto Romitelli  / Alessandro Arbo --
Contents Spectralism in cross-cultural context. Horațiu Rădulescu and the Intangible Dimensions of Plasmatic Music / Liviu Marinescu ; Jean Louis Florentz and Spectralism / Robert Sholl ; Transcending Ethnic Borders in Spectral Music / Yayoi Uno Everett ; Spectralism in the Service of Expression and Irishness in the Music of Donnacha Dennehy / Nicole Grimes -- Spectral Performance Practices. An Attitude Towards the Performance of Spectral Music / Marilyn Nonken ; Performing Spectral Ensemble Works by Grisey and Dumitrescu / Richard Carrick ; 'Sources, aesthetics and performance in Rădulescu's Piano Sonatas' / Ian Pace --
Contents Critical and Material Perspectives. Sound in Itself : the French theorization of timbre / James Steintrager ; The Phenomenological Turn in Romanian Spectralism / Aaron Hayes ; Spectralism and Research in Psychoacoustics and Music Perception / Philippe Lalitte ; French Spectral music and improvisation / Stephen Lehman ; Expression and Technologies of Perception in DiCastri and Adamcyk's Phonobellow / William Mason ; Dynamic Form and Models for Analyzing Processive Form in Spectral Music / Joshua Banks Mailman ; (Title undergoing revision) / Lucas Haselböck -- Spectral composers on their work. Spectral Methodology of the Virtual and Physical in the Sonic Art of Patricia Alessandrini / Patricia Alessandrini and Timothy Rutherford-Johnson ; Edmund Campion's Spectral Influences / Edmund Campion ; Embodied Practice and Historical Aspectuality in Ken Ueno's "Person-Specific" Concertos / Ken Ueno ; Jean Luc Hervé and his Aesthetic of Surroundings / Jean Luc Hervé ; Sounds and Spectra as Symbols / Jacob Sudol.
Abstract "The handbook presents a cross-section of the current scholarly and creative activity related to the spectral music movement and its legacy, from its founding in the mid-1970's to the current day. It will appeal to scholars, composers, and students desiring to become better acquainted with the broad influence of spectral music"-- Provided by publisher.
General noteIncludes index.
Access restrictionAvailable only to authorized users.
Technical detailsMode of access: World Wide Web
Genre/formElectronic books.
LCCN 2024054796
ISBN9780190633547 (hardback)
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