Revisiting the Historiography of Postwar Avant-Garde Music

by Anne-Sylvie Barthel-Calvet (Editor), Christopher Brent Murray (Editor)

Overview

This collection of essays delves into the historiographical traditions that have dominated how the stories of European postwar avant-garde music are told, seeking to approach commonplaces of that history writing from new perspectives.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9781032310046
Publisher:	Taylor & Francis
Publication date:	01/29/2024
Pages:	208
Product dimensions:	6.12(w) x 9.19(h) x (d)

About the Author

Anne-Sylvie Barthel-Calvet is Associate Professor of Musicology at the Université de Lorraine; she also teaches at the Université de Strasbourg. A specialist of European avant-garde music and of the composer Iannis Xenakis, she is currently finishing a biography of Xenakis that will be published by Fayard in 2022. Barthel Calvet previously edited Propositions pour une historiographie critique de la création musicale après 1945 (2011).

Christopher Brent Murray is a Professor at the Conservatoire national supérieur de musique et danse de Paris and teaches at the Université libre de Bruxelles. He is co-author, with Yves Balmer and Thomas Lacôte of Le modèle et l'invention: Olivier Messiaen et la technique de l'emprunt (2017).

Table of Contents

1 Introduction: Revisiting Old Stories of New Music

Anne-Sylvie Barthel-Calvet and Christopher Brent Murray

2 Recent Histories of Twentieth-Century Music and the Historiographical Tradition

Martin Kaltenecker

3 Continuity in the Creative Auto-Genealogies of Boulez, Stockhausen, Pousseur, and Nono

Pascal Decroupet

4 Inventing a Genre: Mauricio Kagel and Instrumental Theater

Jean-François Trubert

5 The Songs of Koma Pio and Hele Marsiale in Olivier Messiaen’s Île de feu Etudes

Christopher Brent Murray

6 A New Patronage Model in Postwar America: Luciano Berio, Philanthropy, and the Economics of Culture

Tiffany Kuo

7 Iannis Xenakis and the Men of Information Theory

Anne-Sylvie Barthel-Calvet

8 Open Works on Record: An Unsung Mediation

Jonathan Goldman

9 Making Audible the Mysteries of Sound: An Alternative Historiography for the Musical Avant-Garde from Varèse to Grisey

Pascal Decroupet