The Voice of Music
Conversations with Composers of Our Time
- 336 pages
- English
- ePUB (mobile friendly)
- Available on iOS & Android
About this book
This title was first published in 2000. Extensive and generously illustrated interviews have been a feature of the lively Danish music periodical "Dansk Musik Tidsskrift" (Danish Music Review) since the 1960s. Now a long-standing tradition, these "conversations" with influential composers from all over the world are prepared by professional musicians and experienced writers on music. This volume is a collection of interviews selected from issues published since 1990 by Anders Beyer, the journal's editor-in-chief. The book gives an up-to-date picture of the North European musical perspectives through interviews with composers from each of the Nordic countries. These are further complemented by interviews with trend-setting composers from the rest of Europe and America. The interviews have been edited and translated into English to make them accessible to a wider audience. The volume features interviews with composers including Erik Bergman, Tikhon Chrennikov, Edison Denisov, Hans Gerfors, Philip Glass, Sofia Gubaidulina and Pelle Gudmundsen-Holmgreen.
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Table of contents
- Cover
- Haft Title
- Title Page
- Copyright Page
- Table of Contents
- Acknowledgements
- Introduction
- An Art Without Ideology
- The Poetry of Opposition
- Into the Labyrinth of the Soul
- Composer and Optimist
- A Multifaceted Sonic Explorer
- A Refined Primitive
- My Unattainable Goal
- A Composer on Inclined Planes
- On Articulating the Existential Scream
- Every Day Brings New Discoveries
- Music Must Bring Light
- My Great Need for Expression
- An Established Outsider
- The Work of Art as a True Presence
- Between Hope and Despair
- Giving Musical Form to Your Thoughts
- My Conscience is Clear
- Between Tradition and Renewal
- When Language Fails the World is Revealed
- A New World of Sound
- A Distinctive Profile in New Music
- Colour, Timbre and Harmony
- Biographies
- Index