Xenakis : : His Life in Music / / by James Harley.

Xenakis: His Life in Music is a full-length study of the influential contemporary composer Iannis Xenakis. Following the trajectory of Xenakis’s compositional development, James Harley, who studied with Xenakis, presents the works together with clear explanations of the technical and conceptual inno...

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Place / Publishing House:Boca Raton, FL : : Taylor and Francis, an imprint of Routledge,, [2004].
©2011.
Year of Publication:2004
Edition:First edition.
Language:English
Physical Description:1 online resource (273 p.)
Notes:Description based upon print version of record.
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Table of Contents:
  • The outsider
  • From the personal to the individual
  • From architecture to algorithm
  • The voice, the stage, and a new conception of time
  • Arborescences, random walks, and cosmic conceptions
  • Sieves, ensembles, and thoughts of death
  • Melody, harmonic color, and nonlinear form
  • The late works: abstraction and intensity.