Peter Asimov
Biographic Data
| ID | 6307141 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Peter Asimov |
| GIVEN NAMES | Peter |
| FAMILY NAME | Asimov |
| SIGNATURE | ASIMOV P |
| ORCID | 0000-0003-4746-4796 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 5 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 0 |
| WORKS AS AUTHOR | 5 |
| WORKS AS EDITOR | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2019 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2025 |
| H-INDEX | 0 |
The Hidden Poetics of Messiaen’s “Serialism”
Interpretation of Messiaen’s piano étude Mode de valeurs et d’intensités (1949) as an exercise in the application of serialism to parameters beyond pitch has enshrined the work as a milestone in modernist music historiography. This article brings to light another intellectual current that played at least as significant a role in his formal experimentation during this period, namely the scientific study of poetic rhythm. I begin by sketching how M…
The Melakarta s and the ‘République Modale’
The zeal for ‘modality’ in French modernist composition drew sustenance from the Indo-European hypothesis (or ‘Aryan myth’) of a linguistic-turned-‘racial’ patrimony linking India, Greece, and Europe, prevalent in Francophone intellectual, including musicological, discourse. Against this backdrop, the central case study traces how the Karnatic melakarta system of rāga classification travelled from Southern India, via British imperial networks, to…
Yvonne Loriod and the Practice of Analytical Memory
The usefulness of music analysis in memorisation is well attested in music‐performance scholarship, even though the methods and processes of analytical memorisation are rarely documented and difficult to assess, especially in a historical perspective. The newly accessible working papers of Yvonne Loriod (1924–2010), a pianist renowned for her phenomenal musical memory, contain a corpus of small, handwritten aide‐mémoires (which she called pense‐b…
Accenting the Classics
Reviewed by: Accenting the Classics: Editing European Music in France, 1915–1925 by Deborah Mawer, et al. Peter Asimov Accenting the Classics: Editing European Music in France, 1915–1925. By Deborah Mawer, Barbara L. Kelly, Rachel Moore, and Graham Sadler. Woodbridge: The Boydell Press, 2023. [xviii, 364 p. ISBN 978-1-83765-032-3. £85.00/$125.00 (hardback)] Right around the time of the first installment of the Durand publishing house’s Édition cl…
Messiaen, Loriod, Birds and Bees
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Messiaen, Loriod, Birds and Bees
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Accenting the Classics
Reviewed by: Accenting the Classics: Editing European Music in France, 1915–1925 by Deborah Mawer, et al. Peter Asimov Accenting the Classics: Editing European Music in France, 1915–1925. By Deborah Mawer, Barbara L. Kelly, Rachel Moore, and Graham Sadler. Woodbridge: The Boydell Press, 2023. [xviii, 364 p. ISBN 978-1-83765-032-3. £85.00/$125.00 (hardback)] Right around the time of the first installment of the Durand publishing house’s Édition cl…
The Melakarta s and the ‘République Modale’
The zeal for ‘modality’ in French modernist composition drew sustenance from the Indo-European hypothesis (or ‘Aryan myth’) of a linguistic-turned-‘racial’ patrimony linking India, Greece, and Europe, prevalent in Francophone intellectual, including musicological, discourse. Against this backdrop, the central case study traces how the Karnatic melakarta system of rāga classification travelled from Southern India, via British imperial networks, to…
Yvonne Loriod and the Practice of Analytical Memory
The usefulness of music analysis in memorisation is well attested in music‐performance scholarship, even though the methods and processes of analytical memorisation are rarely documented and difficult to assess, especially in a historical perspective. The newly accessible working papers of Yvonne Loriod (1924–2010), a pianist renowned for her phenomenal musical memory, contain a corpus of small, handwritten aide‐mémoires (which she called pense‐b…
The Hidden Poetics of Messiaen’s “Serialism”
Interpretation of Messiaen’s piano étude Mode de valeurs et d’intensités (1949) as an exercise in the application of serialism to parameters beyond pitch has enshrined the work as a milestone in modernist music historiography. This article brings to light another intellectual current that played at least as significant a role in his formal experimentation during this period, namely the scientific study of poetic rhythm. I begin by sketching how M…
Art (5 works) · Musicology and Musical Analysis (4 works) · Literature (3 works) · Diverse Musicological Studies (2 works) · Musical (2 works) · Psychology (2 works) · Art history (1 work) · Biology (1 work) · Classics (1 work) · Cognitive science (1 work)