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Composing Ambiguity: The Early Music of Morton Feldman (Hardcover, New Ed)
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Composing Ambiguity: The Early Music of Morton Feldman (Hardcover, New Ed)
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American composer Morton Feldman is increasingly seen to have been
one of the key figures in late-twentieth-century music, with his
work exerting a powerful influence into the twenty-first century.
At the same time, much about his music remains enigmatic, largely
due to long-standing myths about supposedly intuitive or aleatoric
working practices. In Composing Ambiguity, Alistair Noble reveals
key aspects of Feldman's musical language as it developed during a
crucial period in the early 1950s. Drawing models from primary
sources, including Feldman's musical sketches, he shows that
Feldman worked deliberately within a two-dimensional frame,
allowing a focus upon the fundamental materials of sounding pitch
in time. Beyond this, Feldman's work is revealed to be essentially
concerned with the 12-tone chromatic field, and with the
delineation of complexes of simple proportions in 'crystalline'
forms. Through close reading of several important works from the
early 1950s, Noble shows that there is a remarkable consistency of
compositional method, despite the varied experimental notations
used by Feldman at this time. Not only are there direct relations
to be found between staff-notated works and grid scores, but much
of the language developed by Feldman in this period was still in
use even in his late works of the 1980s.
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