Thomas Adès Studies
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Thomas Adès Studies

  1. 338 pages
  2. English
  3. PDF
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Thomas Adès Studies

About this book

Thomas Adès is a dominant force in contemporary music, whose work attracts significant attention and acclaim, and has been performed by many renowned ensembles. This volume – the first to present a range of scholarly essays on every aspect of Adès's music – offers authoritative accounts of Adès's major compositions from a variety of analytical, critical, cultural and historical perspectives. The opening chapters focus on Adès's earlier music, offering close readings of key works. Further essays focus on his engagement with forms and instrumental genres. The final chapters turn to Adès's texted music and highlight how themes introduced in earlier chapters cut across Adès's entire output. Richly illustrated with musical examples and supported by further online material, this book provides a multi-faceted portrait of Adès's work that opens up new ways of thinking about, and engaging with, his music.

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Information

Publisher
Cambridge University Press
Year
2021
Print ISBN
9781108486651
eBook ISBN
9781108788496
Topic
Media & Performing Arts
Subtopic
Music History & Criticism

Table of contents

  1. Cover
  2. Half-title
  3. Title page
  4. Copyright information
  5. Dedication
  6. Contents
  7. List of Figures
  8. List of Tables
  9. List of Music Examples
  10. List of Online Materials
  11. List of Contributors
  12. Preface
  13. Acknowledgements
  14. Notes on the Text
  15. 1 'Chronically volatile': Gesture in Adès's Living Toys and America: A Prophecy
  16. 2 Performing Adès
  17. 3 'Fountain of Youth', 'River of Meaning': Aesthetics of the Superficial in Powder Her Face
  18. 4 'Oh brave new Caliban': Postcolonial Perspectives on Adès's The Tempest
  19. 5 Chaconnes in the Music of Adès
  20. 6 Closing the Circle?: Tevot and the Question of Symphonic Resolution
  21. 7 A World in Constant Motion: Adès's In Seven Days
  22. 8 Musique automatique? Adèsian Automata and the Logic of Disjuncture
  23. 9 Narrating the Dance of Death: Morality and Social Critique in Adès's Totentanz
  24. 10 Hearing Voices in Adès's Operas
  25. 11 The RICH Logic of Adès's The Exterminating Angel and The Tempest
  26. 12 Sonic Allegory in Adès's The Exterminating Angel
  27. Bibliography
  28. Index

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