The Voice of Music

Conversations with Composers of Our Time

Anders Beyer, Jean Christensen

• Publisher: Routledge
• Year: 2019
• eBook ISBN:
  9781351745147
• Topic: Theology & Religion
• Subtopic: Religion

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.

INDEX

Page numbers in italics refer to illustrations

A

absolute music 237

abstract music 264

academic musicians 269

Adams, John 10, 275

Adorno, Theodor W. xii, 9, 148,173–80, 232, 300

aesthetics and aestheticism 94, 285–6

African music 14, 220, 273

Aho, Kalevi 250

Aitken, Robert 61

Albers, Josef 176, 276

Alfvén, Hugo 221

Alldahl, Per-Gunnar 317

amateurs, working with 60–61, 135

Anderson, Laurie 269

Antheil, George 89

Apel, Willi 9

apollonian and dionysian poles 114–15

Arabic music 110

Arditti, Irvine 13

Arditti String Quartet 13

Århus 130, 224, 228–9, 317, 320

Aristoxenes 296

art galleries as concert halls 268–9

Artyomov, Vyacheslav 318

Asafiev, Boris 49

Ashkenazy, Vladimir 62

Astraea group 318

Augustine, St 23

Augustyn, Rafał 262

Auld, Korvat 250

avant-garde movement 8, 11–12, 262, 303

B

Babbitt, Milton 269

Bach, J.S. 8, 14, 24, 51, 61, 116, 121, 167, 169, 196, 297

Bäck, Sven Erik 200–201, 204, 222, 228

Bacon, Francis 138

Baird, Tadeusz 322

Bartók, Béla xvii, 4, iii, 199, 222, 290

Beatles, the 274

Beckett, Samuel...

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