Description
The handbook presents a cross-section of current scholarly research on the spectral music movement and its legacy, from its founding in the mid-1970's to the present. It will appeal to scholars, composers, and students desiring to become better acquainted with the broad influence of spectral music.
Table of Contents
Part I Introduction Chapter 1. Introduction Part II Spectral Precedents Chapter 2. Skryabin's Mystical Space and the Spectral Attitude Kenneth Smith Chapter 3. Hugues Dufourt's Epistemology of Fields, vis-à-vis Varäse and Bachelard Matthew Mendez Chapter 4. Olivier Messiaen: Spectralist Robert Sholl Chapter 5. Paul Hindemith's Technologically Mediated Concept of Nature Alexandra Monchick Chapter 6. Scelsi's Pfhat: Apparitions of a Monumental PastRebecca Leydon Chapter 7. György Ligeti as a Forerunner to Spectral Composition Benjamin Levy Chapter 8. A Short History of Just Intonation in America Kyle Gann Chapter 9. James Tenney and the Theory of Harmony Robert Wannamaker Chapter 10. The Incorporeal Music of Eliane Radigue Charles Curtis Part III Spectralisms Chapter 11. Gérard Grisey and Spectra as Theoretical and Practical Models François-Xavier Féron Chapter 12. Hugues Dufourt and the Origins of His World Marilyn Nonken Chapter 13. Tristan Murail's Poetics of Music Liam Cagney Chapter 14. Timbre, Technology, and Hybridization in the Music of Michael Levïnas Eddie Campbell Chapter 15. Timbral-Harmonic Hierarchy in Claude Vivier's Lonely Child Christopher Gainey Chapter 16. On Saariaho's Microsonology Judith Lochhead Chapter 17. Spectralism as "Spiritual Breakthrough" in the Music of Jonathan Harvey Arnold Whittall Chapter 18. Spectral aesthetics and slow listening in the music of Helena Tulve Amy Bauer Chapter 19. Philippe Leroux and the Notion of the Post-Spectral Paul Clift Chapter 20. Peter Ablinger and the Liminal Voice Rebecca Flore Chapter 21. Harmonic structure, optics, and ideology in the music of Georg Friedrich Haas Amy Bauer and Landon Morrison Chapter 22. Psychedelic Rock, Techno, and the Music of Fausto Romitelli Arbo, Alessandro Part IV Spectralism in cross-cultural context Chapter 23. Horatiu Radulescu and the Intangible Dimensions of Plasmatic Music Liviu Marinescu Chapter 24. Jean Louis Florentz and Spectralism Robert Sholl Chapter 25. Transcending Ethnic Borders in Spectral Music Yayoi Uno Everett Chapter 26. Spectralism in the Service of Expression and Irishness in the Music of Donnacha Dennehy Nicole Grimes Part V Spectral Performance Practices Chapter 27. An Attitude Towards the Performance of Spectral Music Marilyn Nonken Chapter 28. Performing Spectral Ensemble Works by Grisey and Dumitrescu Richard Carrick Chapter 29. Sources, aesthetics and performance in Radulescu's Piano Sonatas Ian Pace Part VI Critical and Material Perspectives Chapter 30. Sound in Itself: the French theorization of timbre James Steintrager Chapter 31. The Phenomenological Turn in Romanian Spectralism Aaron Hayes Chapter 32. Spectralism and Research in Psychoacoustics and Music Perception Philippe LalitteChapter 33. French Spectral music and improvisation Stephen Lehman Chapter 34. Expression and Technologies of Perception in DiCastri and Adamcyk's Phonobellow William Mason Chapter 35. Dynamic Form and Models for Analyzing Processive Form in Spectral Music Joshua Banks Mailman Chapter 36. "La voix comme radicale altérité"? Spectral Music for the Voice Lukas Haselböck Part VII Spectral composers on their work Chapter 37. Spectral Methodology of the Virtual and Physical in the Sonic Art of Patricia Alessandrini Patricia Alessandrini and Timothy Rutherford-Johnson Chapter 38. Edmund Campion's Spectral Influences Edmund Campion Chapter 39. Embodied Practice and Historical Aspectuality in Ken Ueno's "Person-Specific" Concertos Ken Ueno Chapter 40. Jean Luc Hervé and his Aesthetic of Surroundings Jean Luc Hervé Chapter 41. Sounds and Spectra as Symbols Jacob Sudol Index
