For much of his career, the internationally known, and still active Dutch composer Louis Andriessen has been understood as an iconoclast who challenged and resisted the musical establishment. This book explores his compositions as a case study for exploring the social and aesthetic implications of new music. Everett chronicles the evolution of Andriessen's music over the course of five decades: the formative years in which he experimented with serialism and collage techniques; his political activism in the late 1960s; 'concept' works from the 1970s that provide musical commentary on philosophical writings by Plato, St Augustine and others; theatrical and operatic collaborations with Robert Wilson and Peter Greenaway in the 1980s and 1990s; and recent works that explore contemplative themes on death and madness. Everett's analysis of Andriessen's music draws on theories of parody, narrativity, and intertextuality that have gained currency in musicological discourse in recent years.
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For much of his career, the internationally known, and still active Dutch composer Louis Andriessen has been understood as an iconoclast who challenged the musical establishment. Containing over one hundred musical examples, this book provides a comprehensive analysis of Andriessen's music, chronicling its evolution over the course of five decades.
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Yayoi Uno Everett is Assistant Professor in Music at Emory University, Atlanta.
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sound continua, pianto motive, polyrhythmic cycles, second vocal entry, semiquaver motive, hammering chords, textural music, block juxtaposition, complementary melody, hocket technique, rhythmic augmentation, tempo acceleration, choral entry, vocal entries, domestic serenity, metric modulation, second orchestras, written meter, rhythmic unison, musical analogue, opening motive, expressive state, musical commentary, borrowed themes, sung text Key Phrases - Capitalized Phrases (CAPs): (learn more)
The Music of Louis Andriessen, The Hague, Peter Greenaway, Contra Tempus, Peter Schat, Facing Death, Holland Festival, Workers Union, Misha Mengelberg, Sacrificial Dance, Golden Section, The Last Day, Madame Mondrian, Willem Pijper, New York City, Ton de Leeuw, United States, Madame de Vries, World War, Madame Curie, Van Baaren, Second Symphony, Hendrik Andriessen, Jan van Vlijmen, Reinbert de Leeuw New!
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sound continua, pianto motive, polyrhythmic cycles, second vocal entry, semiquaver motive, hammering chords, textural music, block juxtaposition, complementary melody, hocket technique, rhythmic augmentation, tempo acceleration, choral entry, vocal entries, domestic serenity, metric modulation, second orchestras, written meter, rhythmic unison, musical analogue, opening motive, expressive state, musical commentary, borrowed themes, sung text Key Phrases - Capitalized Phrases (CAPs): (learn more)
The Music of Louis Andriessen, The Hague, Peter Greenaway, Contra Tempus, Peter Schat, Facing Death, Holland Festival, Workers Union, Misha Mengelberg, Sacrificial Dance, Golden Section, The Last Day, Madame Mondrian, Willem Pijper, New York City, Ton de Leeuw, United States, Madame de Vries, World War, Madame Curie, Van Baaren, Second Symphony, Hendrik Andriessen, Jan van Vlijmen, Reinbert de Leeuw New!
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- Music of Louis Andriessen by Maja Trochimczyk on 6 pages
- The Rite of Spring (Dover Miniature Music Scores) by Igor Stravinsky on 5 pages
- The Apollonian Clockwork: On Stravinsky (Amsterdam University Press - Amsterdam Archaeological Studies) by Louis Andriessen on 4 pages
- The Stravinsky Legacy (Music in the Twentieth Century) by Jonathan Cross in Front Matter, and Back Matter
- New Dutch Swing by Kevin Whitehead on page 62, and Back Matter
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- Schoenberg's Transformation of Musical Language (Music in the Twentieth Century) by Ethan Haimo in Front Matter
- Louis Andriessen: De Staat (Landmarks in Music Since 1950) (Landmarks in Music Since 1950) by Robert Adlington in Back Matter
- Music of Louis Andriessen by Maja Trochimczyk in Front Matter
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