Musical portraits
Subtitle: the composition of identity in contemporary and experimental music
By: Joshua S. Walden
Publisher: Oxford University Press
Published: 2018
Language: eng
Number of pages: 184
ISBN-13: 9780190653507
Copyright date: 2018
Subjects: Characters and characteristics in music; History and criticism; Music
Description: Joshua S. Walden's study of the genre of musical portraiture since 1945 focuses on significant composers of the period, including Pierre Boulez, Morton Feldman, Philip Glass, and György Ligeti. Grounding his exploration in key works, Walden uncovers contemporary understandings of music's capacity to depict identity, and of intersections between music, literature, theater, film, and the visual arts.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references (pages 161-175) and index.
Table of contents: title: Introduction: portraiture as a musical genre; title: Musical and literary portraiture; title: Musical portraits of visual artists; title: Listening in on composers' self-portraits; title: Celebrity, music, and the multimedia portrait; title: Epilogue : musical portraiture, the posthumous, and the posthuman.