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Writing to Louis Andriessen

Author : Rose Dodd

Publisher :

Page : 240 pages

File Size : 49,71 MB

Release : 2019

Category :

ISBN : 9789462263079

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Louis Andriessen is the Netherlands? foremost composer of contemporary music. 'Writing to Louis Andriessen: Commentaries on life in music' surveys significant works from Andriessen?s career. The book will be substantial in its commentary on the span of his work, with contributors from the UK, the Netherlands and the US contextualising his music from a European critical perspective, linking outwards to American minimalism, so too surveying his international importance. It will be in the English language.0Louis Andriessen has exerted influence not only as a teacher at the Koninklijk Conservatorium, Den Haag but also internationally in the expanse of works presented. Celebrating his eightieth birthday in 2019, former students, now also significant voices internationally, and contemporaries join together to write to Louis Andriessen in a book of critical reflection and celebration. Amongst those writing will be Donnacha Dennehy, Rose Dodd, David Dramm, Anthony Fiumara, Ron Ford, Christopher Fox, Liz Haddon, Yannis Kyriakides, Jan Nieuwenhuis, Ian Pace, Martijn Padding, Johanneke van Slooten and Julia Wolfe.0Designed by Joost Grootens, the visual presentation within the book will comprise letters from Andriessen?s personal correspondence with the iconic American mezzo-soprano Cathy Berberian, music materials and programme booklets, musical score excerpts and archive photos, all in lush presentation.



The Apollonian Clockwork

Author : Louis Andriessen

Publisher : Amsterdam University Press

Page : 315 pages

File Size : 15,89 MB

Release : 2006

Category : Music

ISBN : 9053568565

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The one book about Stravinsky Stravinsky would have liked. Richard Taruskin.



The Art of Stealing Time

Author : Louis Andriessen

Publisher : ARC Publications

Page : 358 pages

File Size : 21,77 MB

Release : 2002

Category : Biography & Autobiography

ISBN :

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The Dutch composer, Louis Andriessen, has been writing and talking about his own work and everything which is directly, indirectly, or nothing at all to do with it, for many years now and The Art of Stealing Time is a collection of these articles, lectures and interviews. Andriessen talks about his childhood memories, his literary and cinematic preferences, colleagues he admires and ensembles he has established. He also talks about his own work, from De Staat [The Republic], the piece with which, twenty-five years ago, he changed the face of the musical landscape in the Netherlands up to and including the last opera he created with Peter Greenaway, Writing to Vermeer. Andriessen's style is informal, direct and always engaging, and through his use of anecdote, he is able to convey complex ideas to the widest of audiences, musicians and non-musicians alike. Controversial, funny, stimulating and thought-provoking, The Art of Stealing Time gives us a unique insight into the mind and working methods of one of the most significant composers alive today. This is, without doubt, a book to return to again and again.



The Music of Louis Andriessen

Author : Louis Andriessen

Publisher : Psychology Press

Page : 344 pages

File Size : 14,84 MB

Release : 2002

Category : Biography & Autobiography

ISBN : 9780815337898

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First Published in 2002. Routledge is an imprint of Taylor & Francis, an informa company.



Music of Louis Andriessen

Author : Maja Trochimczyk

Publisher : Routledge

Page : 341 pages

File Size : 48,38 MB

Release : 2002-05-10

Category : Music

ISBN : 1136769668

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This book presents the musician in dialog with a Polish-Canadian musicologist and three of his Dutch friends and collaborators, Reinbert de Leeuw, Elmer Schönberger and Frits van der Waa. Topics include his artistic evolution, his relationship to minimalism, his prevalent interest in mysticism and meaning, the use of quotation and writing for



Louis Andriessen: De Staat

Author : Robert Adlington

Publisher : Routledge

Page : 162 pages

File Size : 40,72 MB

Release : 2017-10-03

Category : Music

ISBN : 1351218840

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Louis Andriessen is one of the foremost composers in the world today. His music, with its distinctive blend of jazz, minimalism, Stravinsky and the European avant-garde, has attracted wide audiences internationally and made him a sought-after teacher among younger generations of composers. De Staat ('The Republic') brought Andriessen to international attention in 1976, and it remains his best-known work. This book is the first extended, single-author study of Andriessen in any language. It opens with a detailed account of Andriessen's involvement in the political upheavals of the 1960s and 1970s which formed the basis for his later views on instrumentation and musical style. The following chapters assess the principal influences on his music and the musical structure of De Staat. The book closes with an extensive discussion of the meaning of De Staat in the light of the composer's firmly held socio-political views. The downloadable resources include a thrilling live recording of De Staat from the 1978 Holland Festival, plus two earlier works not previously commercially available on compact disc - De Volharding and Il Principe.



The Rest Is Noise

Author : Alex Ross

Publisher : Farrar, Straus and Giroux

Page : 706 pages

File Size : 34,33 MB

Release : 2007-10-16

Category : Music

ISBN : 1429932880

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Winner of the 2007 National Book Critics Circle Award for Criticism A New York Times Book Review Top Ten Book of the Year Time magazine Top Ten Nonfiction Book of 2007 Newsweek Favorite Books of 2007 A Washington Post Book World Best Book of 2007 In this sweeping and dramatic narrative, Alex Ross, music critic for The New Yorker, weaves together the histories of the twentieth century and its music, from Vienna before the First World War to Paris in the twenties; from Hitler's Germany and Stalin's Russia to downtown New York in the sixties and seventies up to the present. Taking readers into the labyrinth of modern style, Ross draws revelatory connections between the century's most influential composers and the wider culture. The Rest Is Noise is an astonishing history of the twentieth century as told through its music.



Postopera: Reinventing the Voice-Body

Author : Jelena Novak

Publisher : Routledge

Page : 206 pages

File Size : 18,61 MB

Release : 2016-03-09

Category : Music

ISBN : 1317077199

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Both in opera studies and in most operatic works, the singing body is often taken for granted. In Postopera: Reinventing the Voice-Body, Jelena Novak reintroduces an awareness of the physicality of the singing body to opera studies. Arguing that the voice-body relationship itself is a producer of meaning, she furthermore posits this relationship as one of the major driving forces in recent opera. She takes as her focus six contemporary operas - La Belle et la Bête (Philip Glass), Writing to Vermeer (Louis Andriessen, Peter Greenaway), Three Tales (Steve Reich, Beryl Korot), One (Michel van der Aa), Homeland (Laurie Anderson), and La Commedia (Louis Andriessen, Hal Hartley) - which she terms 'postoperas'. These pieces are sites for creative exploration, where the boundaries of the opera world are stretched. Central to this is the impact of new media, a de-synchronization between image and sound, or a redefinition of body-voice-gender relationships. Novak dissects the singing body as a set of rules, protocols, effects, and strategies. That dissection shows how the singing body acts within the world of opera, what interventions it makes, and how it constitutes opera’s meanings.



Composing Dissent

Author : Robert Adlington

Publisher :

Page : 383 pages

File Size : 26,87 MB

Release : 2013-09-12

Category : History

ISBN : 0199981019

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The 1960s saw the emergence in the Netherlands of a generation of avant-garde musicians with a pronounced commitment to social and political engagement. This book presents the Dutch experience as an exemplary case study in the complex and conflictual encounter of the musical avant-garde with the decade's currents of social change.



Researching and Writing on Contemporary Art and Artists

Author : Christopher Wiley

Publisher : Springer Nature

Page : 285 pages

File Size : 24,82 MB

Release : 2020-06-27

Category : Art

ISBN : 3030392333

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Researching and writing about contemporary art and artists present unique challenges for scholars, students, professional critics and creative practitioners alike. This collection of essays from across the arts disciplines—music, literature, dance, theatre and the visual arts—explores the challenges and complexities raised by engaging in researching and writing on living or recently deceased subjects and their output. Different sections explore critical perspectives and case studies in relation to innovative, distinctive or otherwise leading work, as well as offering innovative modes of discourse such as a visual essay and a music composition. Subjects addressed include recent scandals of Canadian literary celebrity, late-career output, the written element of music composition PhDs, and the boundaries between ethnography and hagiography, with case studies ranging from Howard Barker to Adrian Piper to Sylvie Guillem and Misty Copeland.