Jonathan W Bernard
Biographic Data
| ID | 1014197 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Jonathan W Bernard |
| GIVEN NAMES | Jonathan W |
| FAMILY NAME | Bernard |
| SIGNATURE | BERNARD J W |
| VERIFIED | No |
| TOTAL WORKS | 10 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 4 |
| WORKS AS AUTHOR | 9 |
| WORKS AS EDITOR | 1 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1983 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2012 |
| H-INDEX | 1 |
Elliott Carter
Book Review| December 01 2012 Elliott Carter Elliott Carter. By James Wierzbicki. American Composers. Urbana: University of Illinois Press, 2011. ISBN-13: 978-0-252-07800-2. Softcover. Pp. xvi, 122. $20.00. Jonathan W. Bernard Jonathan W. Bernard Search for other works by this author on: This Site Google American Music (2012) 30 (4): 514–516. https://doi.org/10.5406/americanmusic.30.4.0514 Cite Icon Cite Share Icon Share Facebook Twitter LinkedIn…
The Pleasure of Modernist Music
Minimalism, Postminimalism, and the Resurgence of Tonality in Recent American Music
music they have been writing for the past twenty-five years or so.' While would seem that during the early 1970s had been accorded a certain grudging acceptance, as time went on most composers found progressively less satisfactory.2 Reich, for instance, has asserted that it becomes more pejorative than descriptive starting about 1973 with my Music for Mallet Instruments, Voices, and Organ.'3 Furthermore, some prominent critics over the past two d…
Listening to Zappa
Although he was best known as guitarist and leader of The Mothers of Invention and other amplified bands, and for writing music in an essentially rock or rock/jazz style, Frank Zappa grew up with a keen interest in “serious” 20th-century concert music and aspired to be an orchestral composer as well; his scores have been recorded by Pierre Boulez, the Ensemble Modern, and others. Appropriate listening strategies for Zappa's pieces for acoustic co…
Voice Leading as a Spatial Function in the Music of Ligeti
Technically speaking I have always approached musical texture through part-writing. Both Atmospheres and Lontano have a dense canonic structure. But you cannot actually hear the polyphony, the canon. You hear a kind of impenetrable texture, something like a very densely woven cobweb. I have retained melodic lines in the process of composition, they are governed by rules as strict as Palestrina's or those of the Flemish school, but the rules of th…
The Later Music of Elliott Carter
The Mystery of Varese
Inaudible Structures, Audible Music
Not long after his emigration to the West in 1956, Gy6rgy Ligeti decided to challenge a well-established compositional trend. Ligeti is known today as one of a relatively small number of composers who in the late 1950s sought viable alternatives to post-Webernian serialism, and it is no exaggeration to say that, nowadays, when aside from a handful of undisputed masterpieces much of what was written during the serialist era seems hopelessly dated,…
On 'Density 21.5'
Titles are often misleading, so perhaps I had better begin by saying that this one is intended to reflect, at least approximately, the relative emphasis that I have given to the two aspects of my essay, which is as much a vehicle for presenting my analytical ideas about Varese's piece for solo flute as it is a critique of the approach that Jean-Jacques Nattiez, in an article that recently appeared in this journal, has taken to the work.1 Certainl…
Spatial Sets in Recent Music of Elliott Carter
Inaudible Structures, Audible Music
Not long after his emigration to the West in 1956, Gy6rgy Ligeti decided to challenge a well-established compositional trend. Ligeti is known today as one of a relatively small number of composers who in the late 1950s sought viable alternatives to post-Webernian serialism, and it is no exaggeration to say that, nowadays, when aside from a handful of undisputed masterpieces much of what was written during the serialist era seems hopelessly dated,…
Listening to Zappa
Although he was best known as guitarist and leader of The Mothers of Invention and other amplified bands, and for writing music in an essentially rock or rock/jazz style, Frank Zappa grew up with a keen interest in “serious” 20th-century concert music and aspired to be an orchestral composer as well; his scores have been recorded by Pierre Boulez, the Ensemble Modern, and others. Appropriate listening strategies for Zappa's pieces for acoustic co…
Voice Leading as a Spatial Function in the Music of Ligeti
Technically speaking I have always approached musical texture through part-writing. Both Atmospheres and Lontano have a dense canonic structure. But you cannot actually hear the polyphony, the canon. You hear a kind of impenetrable texture, something like a very densely woven cobweb. I have retained melodic lines in the process of composition, they are governed by rules as strict as Palestrina's or those of the Flemish school, but the rules of th…
Spatial Sets in Recent Music of Elliott Carter
On 'Density 21.5'
Titles are often misleading, so perhaps I had better begin by saying that this one is intended to reflect, at least approximately, the relative emphasis that I have given to the two aspects of my essay, which is as much a vehicle for presenting my analytical ideas about Varese's piece for solo flute as it is a critique of the approach that Jean-Jacques Nattiez, in an article that recently appeared in this journal, has taken to the work.1 Certainl…
The Mystery of Varese
Inaudible Structures, Audible Music
Not long after his emigration to the West in 1956, Gy6rgy Ligeti decided to challenge a well-established compositional trend. Ligeti is known today as one of a relatively small number of composers who in the late 1950s sought viable alternatives to post-Webernian serialism, and it is no exaggeration to say that, nowadays, when aside from a handful of undisputed masterpieces much of what was written during the serialist era seems hopelessly dated,…
The Later Music of Elliott Carter
Voice Leading as a Spatial Function in the Music of Ligeti
Technically speaking I have always approached musical texture through part-writing. Both Atmospheres and Lontano have a dense canonic structure. But you cannot actually hear the polyphony, the canon. You hear a kind of impenetrable texture, something like a very densely woven cobweb. I have retained melodic lines in the process of composition, they are governed by rules as strict as Palestrina's or those of the Flemish school, but the rules of th…
Listening to Zappa
Although he was best known as guitarist and leader of The Mothers of Invention and other amplified bands, and for writing music in an essentially rock or rock/jazz style, Frank Zappa grew up with a keen interest in “serious” 20th-century concert music and aspired to be an orchestral composer as well; his scores have been recorded by Pierre Boulez, the Ensemble Modern, and others. Appropriate listening strategies for Zappa's pieces for acoustic co…
Minimalism, Postminimalism, and the Resurgence of Tonality in Recent American Music
music they have been writing for the past twenty-five years or so.' While would seem that during the early 1970s had been accorded a certain grudging acceptance, as time went on most composers found progressively less satisfactory.2 Reich, for instance, has asserted that it becomes more pejorative than descriptive starting about 1973 with my Music for Mallet Instruments, Voices, and Organ.'3 Furthermore, some prominent critics over the past two d…
The Pleasure of Modernist Music
Elliott Carter
Book Review| December 01 2012 Elliott Carter Elliott Carter. By James Wierzbicki. American Composers. Urbana: University of Illinois Press, 2011. ISBN-13: 978-0-252-07800-2. Softcover. Pp. xvi, 122. $20.00. Jonathan W. Bernard Jonathan W. Bernard Search for other works by this author on: This Site Google American Music (2012) 30 (4): 514–516. https://doi.org/10.5406/americanmusic.30.4.0514 Cite Icon Cite Share Icon Share Facebook Twitter LinkedIn…
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