Orientations: Collected Writings, Volume 0Pierre Boulez is one of the most influential--and controversial--figures in the world of contemporary music. As composer, conductor, and critic, his challenging views of modern developments are lent a special authority by his high standing as an interpreter of classic composers. Orientations will enhance his reputation as a lucid expositor of the modern composer's world. When writing about composing and analysis Boulez forges a new way of thinking about music. He is immensely illuminating about his own compositions. He offers special insight on composers with whom he has been particularly associated as a conductor--including Berlioz, Debussy, Wagner, Mahler, Schoenberg, Stravinsky, and Messiaen. And he writes about performance and orchestras, tackling the question of how to make new music more familiar for the concert-goer. This rich and wide-ranging volume is truly a special resource for everyone wanting to learn more about twentieth-century music. |
Contents
Translators Note | 9 |
Aesthetics and the Fetishists | 31 |
The Spectacles Worn by Reason? | 44 |
Putting the Phantoms to Flight | 63 |
Time Notation and Coding | 84 |
Form | 90 |
Towards a Conclusion | 97 |
Seeing and Knowing | 106 |
Das klagende Lied | 304 |
Reflections on Pelléas et Mélisande | 306 |
Orchestral Works | 318 |
Chien flasque | 323 |
Schoenberg the Unloved? | 325 |
Speaking Playing Singing | 330 |
Kandinsky and Schoenberg | 344 |
Music for strings percussion and celesta | 346 |
Frenzy and Organization | 129 |
Sonate que me veuxtu | 143 |
Constructing an Improvisation | 155 |
Pli selon pli | 174 |
Sound Word Synthesis | 177 |
Poetry Centre and Absence Music | 183 |
An Interview with Dominique Jameux | 199 |
Exemplars | 203 |
Tell Me | 205 |
Berlioz and the Realm of the Imaginary | 212 |
Symphonie fantastique and Lélio | 220 |
The Man and the Works | 223 |
R is Working | 231 |
The First Encounter | 237 |
Here Space Becomes Time | 240 |
Approaches to Parsifal | 245 |
The Ring | 260 |
A Performers Notebook | 278 |
Why Biography? | 292 |
Our Contemporary | 295 |
Style or Idea? In Praise of Amnesia | 349 |
The Firebird | 360 |
The Rite of Spring | 362 |
The StravinskyWebern Conjunction | 364 |
Hyperprisme Octandre Intégrales | 370 |
The Chamber Concerto | 372 |
Lulu | 380 |
Olivier Messiaen | 404 |
A Lost Paradise? | 421 |
The Domaine musical | 427 |
Ten Years On | 434 |
Point of Departure | 441 |
The Bauhaus Model | 464 |
Arousing Interest in New Music | 471 |
Whats New? | 477 |
Technology and the Composer | 486 |
Tributes | 495 |
Hans Rosbaud | 513 |
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