Kaija Saariaho: Visions, Narratives, Dialogues

Jon Hargreaves, Tim Howell

• Publisher: Taylor & Francis
• Year: 2017
• Print ISBN: 9781409421160
• eBook ISBN: 9781351561426
• Edition: 1
• Topic: Media & Performing Arts
• Subtopic: Music

Kaija Saariaho is internationally recognized as a leading figure in contemporary music, enjoying a well-deserved reputation for works that are both creatively original and of considerable appeal. Her music communicates with a refreshingly broad audience, and this special achievement deserves careful consideration. In the first symposium book in English to be dedicated exclusively to this single figure, scholars from both the UK and Saariaho's native Finland bring a range of perspectives to her richly varied output. Uncovering the compositional, historical, cultural and sociological issues that have resulted in such critical acclaim lies at the heart of this collection of essays. Saariaho's approach to composition is an interdisciplinary one; it embraces a number of art forms - visual, literary and musical - in works that explore a creative dialogue between image, continuity and time. While such diversity is readily accommodated in a multi-authored collection, the consistency of an underlying compositional identity and integrity is also an important trait. The grouping of these essays into three strands - 'visions', 'narratives' and 'dialogues' - reflects the wide range of Saariaho's creative preoccupations while subscribing to a carefully structured succession of commentaries.

Index

References to music extracts and illustrations are in bold

acoustic processes

Cendres 23, 27

Du cristal 198

Graal théâtre 140

Nymphéa Reflection 104

acoustics 10

space 189

Alanko, Petri 69

Anderson, Julian 37

art

forms

opera as 109

in Saariaho’s music xv

music, Western 63, 64, 65, 74, 75, 76, 78, 180

Saariaho, student of xvi, 6, 109

sonic, music as 64

of time, music as 81

Assayag, Gérard, IANA computer programme 167

Atlan, Henri, Entre le cristal et la fumée 179, 183

Balzac, Honoré de, Séraphîta 53

Barrière, Jean-Baptiste 76

Bataille, Georges 75

Batta, Andrea, on Don Giovanni 115

Bergman, Erik xxii

body, the

and music 64–5

and performativity 65

and production of space 79

body–mind, integration, Du cristal ...à la fumèe 201

Boulez, Pierre 22

Le Marteau sans maître 8

and Saariaho 11

Bradshaw, Susan 22

Cage, John 103

Causton, Richard, Phoenix

analysis 37, 38

‘Cantilena’ 38, 39

dedication 38

‘Epilogue’ 39–40, 39

Celan, Paul 16

CHANT voice programme 10

FOF -synthesis 163

cinders trope, Derrida 16

Clifton, Thomas 81

compositional process, see under Saariaho

computer analysis 160, 162, 174, 176

concertos

classical form 144

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Table of contents

• Cover
• Half Title
• Title
• Copyright
• Contents
• List of Examples
• Notes on Contributors
• Preludes and Codas
• Acknowledgements
• VISIONS
• NARRATIVES
• DIALOGUES
• Bibliography
• Index