Brett Boutwell

Biographic Data

ID7347783
NAMEBrett Boutwell
GIVEN NAMESBrett
FAMILY NAMEBoutwell
SIGNATUREBOUTWELL B
AFFILIATIONSLouisiana State University
VERIFIEDNo
TOTAL WORKS6
TOTAL CITATIONS0
WORKS AS AUTHOR5
WORKS AS EDITOR1
FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR2001
LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR2026
H-INDEX0

  • Morton Feldman, the Kronos Quartet, and the Sound of Schubert

    Brett Boutwell, Brett N BoutwellARTICLEContemporary Music Review2026

    ‘It should sound like Schubert’, said Morton Feldman of his own music during a rehearsal with the Kronos Quartet. In this article, his surprising remark serves as the basis for intertwined analyses of Feldman’s relationship to musical performance and to the musical past. A comparison of his late piece Piano and String Quartet and Schubert’s late Notturno for piano trio reveals one possible explanation of what it meant, for Feldman, to ‘sound like…

  • Terry Jennings, the Lost Minimalist

    Brett BoutwellARTICLEAmerican Music2014

    Research Article| April 01 2014 Terry Jennings, the Lost Minimalist Brett Boutwell Brett Boutwell Search for other works by this author on: This Site Google American Music (2014) 32 (1): 82–107. https://doi.org/10.5406/americanmusic.32.1.0082 Cite Icon Cite Share Icon Share Facebook Twitter LinkedIn MailTo Permissions Search Site Citation Brett Boutwell; Terry Jennings, the Lost Minimalist. American Music 1 January 2014; 32 (1): 82–107. doi: http…

  • The Breathing of Sound Itself’

    Brett BoutwellARTICLEContemporary Music Review2013

    Morton Feldman's well-known attraction to visual art is difficult to disentangle from another stimulus to his creative thought during the first two decades of his career: his obsession with musical time and struggle to represent it through the visual medium of notation. Inclined to frame compositional questions in terms drawn from painting, he was forced to reconcile the inherent temporality of his own art form with the inherent spatiality of ano…

  • John Zorn

    Brett BoutwellARTICLEAmerican Music2010

    Book Review| December 01 2010 John Zorn: Tradition and Transgression John Zorn: Tradition and Transgression. By John Brackett. Bloomington: Indiana University Press, 2008. ISBN-13: 978-0-253-35234-7. Paper. 248 pp. 28 b&w photos, 46 figures. $24.95. Brett Boutwell Brett Boutwell Louisiana State University Search for other works by this author on: This Site Google American Music (2010) 28 (4): 514–516. https://doi.org/10.5406/americanmusic.28.4.05…

  • John Cage

    Brett BoutwellARTICLEAmerican Music2007

  • Feldman, Morton

    Steven Johnson, Steven G Johnson et al.EDITORCHAPTERThe new Grove dictionary of music…2001