malik@delphi.DEC (Karl Malik ZK1-1/D42 ) (04/06/84)
Subj; Analysis of music of Elliot Carter?
Has anyone out there studied the music of Eliott Carter?
Attended a seminar, a theory class, etc.?
Can anyone offer any suggestions as to the note-to-note
structure of his works?
I've been staring at his Brass Quintet. Like many of his
pieces, there is the usual stylistic independence of instruments
('personalities') and sections based on certain intervals or chords.
But, for example, in a section based on sixths, I can find
no structure other than he's playing with sixths. Is that all (no
denigration intended) there is to it? Is his choice of pitches,
patterns, rhythms, etc. wholly intuitive?
That's my guess, but I wonder if I'm missing something.
Carter anecdote - Someone once asked Carter if his music
was 12-tone. He replied that he didn't know, since he had never
analyzed them from that perspective.
- Karl
...decvax!devwrl!rhea!star!malikahearn@convex.UUCP (04/11/84)
#R:decwrl:-692500:convex:39000004:000:463 convex!ahearn Apr 11 09:22:00 1984 As you gain insight into Carter's music, please post your results to the net. I've been listening to Carter for a year or so and would like to see some technical analysis of his work. (I'm not a musician or composer, so I've been relying on reading and intuitive response so far.) I really like some of Carter's later pieces, especially *Seringa*, which is based on text by Aeschylus and the contemporary poet John Ashberry. Thanks in advance. Joe Ahearn