Jonathan Harvey's Bhakti : for chamber ensemble and electronics : serialism, electronics, and spirituality / John Palmer.
| Author/creator | Palmer, John, 1959- |
| Format | Book |
| Publication Info | Lewiston, NY : Edwin Mellen Press, 2001. |
| Description | 176 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm. |
| Subjects |
| Portion of title | Bhakti |
| Series | Studies in history and interpretation of music ; v. 77 Studies in the history and interpretation of music ; v. 77. ^A231525 |
| Contents | Background. The composer's electroacoustic output before Bhakti -- IRCAM -- The commission -- The concept -- The literary texts -- The form. Infrastructure and instrumentation -- The motions -- Tempi -- Rhythm -- Pitch strategies, melodic and harmonic Gestalt. The organisation of pitch -- The prime tone-row and its cells -- The development of cells -- The spaces -- Interaction -- The organisation of timbre. Foreword -- The mirror of sound -- Extended instrumentation -- Macro-level: the structural relation between tape and ensemble -- Micro-level: electroacoustic strategies in context -- Overview and interpretation. Foreword -- The movements -- The symbolism of listening -- Retrospection and forum. Rationale -- A retrospective with Jonathan Harvey -- Forum. |
| Abstract | Jonathan Harvey's Bhakti, commissioned by Pierre Boulez in association with IRCAM, has been widely recognized as one of the most influential works of the 1980s and one of the major electroacoustic compositions ever to be produced at IRCAM, Paris. It has been performed worldwide by the most influential ensembles of contemporary music. This study provides the reader with a comprehensive platform of discussion including a rigorous analytical scrutiny of the serial techniques used by the composer, an in-depth exploration of the electroacoustic techniques employed for the realisation of the tape part, a discussion about the composer's aesthetics and the correspondence between the music and its metaphysical meaning in conjunction with the Rig Veda texts that have inspired the work, an interview with the composer, and a final forum about the work including eminent musicologists, composers and conductors such as Joel Chadabe, Arnold Whittall, James Wood, Eric De Visscher and other leading personalities of the international contemporary music circuit. |
| Bibliography note | Includes bibliographical references (pages 173-174) and index. |
| LCCN | 2001018320 |
| ISBN | 0773474366 |
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