Full Description
The second part of this volume comprises four essays on Durand's music, contributed by three of his former composition students -- Christian Asplund, Eric Flesher, and Ryan M. Hare -- and by his colleague, music theorist Jonathan W. Bernard, who has also edited and introduced this absorbing portrait of the composer.
Contents
Editor's Introduction
Texts and Music by Durand
--In the Mirror Land: Reflections on a Self-Reflection (2004)
--Melody--Three Situations: Un Feu distinct, La Terre et le feu, Athanor (2004)
--On Some Aspects of the Piano Concerto: Time as Generator of Space through Melody and Harmony (1996)
--In the Mirror Land: Version for Flute and Oboe (2003)
Texts by Others
--Thematic Adaptation in Recent Works of Joel-Francois Durand / Eric Flesher
--Centers, Fields, and Cracks: Some Solutions to the Problems of Contemporary Composition in the Music of Joel-Francois Durand / Ryan M. Hare
--"As if to illustrate the process of creation itself": Joel-Francois Durand's Lichtung / Christian Asplund
--Durand, Bernhard, and Form / Jonathan W. Bernard
Biography
List of Works
Contributors
Index
