Lutosławski studies
By: edited by Zbigniew Skowron.
Contributors: Skowron, Zbigniew.
Publisher: Oxford University Press
Published: 2001
Place of publication: New York
Language: eng
Number of pages: 370
Subjects: Lutosławski, Witold, -- 1913- -- Criticism and interpretation
Description: "Lutoslawski Studies presents for the first time an overview of the great Polish twentieth-century composer Witold Lutoslawski's works and his compositional style. Whereas most previous literature on Lutoslawski's music has focussed on disparate or isolated aspects of his compositional technique, this study encompasses areas such as the composer's aesthetics, the evolution of his style, and the compositional strategies which apply to broader areas of his creativity.

The international team of contributors (including the leading Lutoslawski scholars Steven Stucky, Charles Bodman Rae, and Martina Homma) bring to this study the results of recent research, offering a broader approach that links many issues which have been treated selectively in former studies, as well as throwing new light on the essences of the composer's music."--BOOK JACKET.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references (p. 356-361) and index.
Table of contents: title: Part I: Aesthetics. Lutosławski's aesthetics: a reconstruction of the composer's outlook / Zbigniew Skowron ; Lutosławski's sound-world: a world of contrasts / Charles Bodman Rae ; The visionary and the dramatic in the music of Lutosławski / John Casken ; Poetic and dramatic schemes in Lutosławski's vocal-instrumental works / Benoît Aubigny ; Dans la nuit: the themes of death and night in Lutosławski's œuvre / Maja Trochimczyk; title: Part 2: Style and compositional technique. Change and constancy: the essential Lutosławski / Steven Stucky ; Considerations of symphonic form in the music of Lutosławski / James Harley ; Lutosławski's studies in twelve-tone rows / Martina Homma ; Jeux vénitiens: working methods at the start of Lutosławski's mature period / Adrian Thomas ; Between polarity and synthesis: the modernist paradigm in Lutosławski's concertos for cello and piano / Arnold Whittall ; The stylistic traits of Witold Lutosławski's works for solo instrument and piano / Jadwiga Paja-Stach ; The integrative role of motion patterns in Lutosławski's mature symphonic works: a comparison of Livre pour orchestre and the Symphony No. 4 / Andrzej Tuchowski ; On the types of chain connections in the late music of Lutosławski: some remarks on Chain 1 for chamber ensemble and Chain 3 for orchestra / Irina Nikolska ; Microtones in the music of Lutosławski / Peter Petersen.