Analytical studies of the music of Ashley, Cage, Carter, Dallapiccola, Feldman, Lucier, Reich, Satie, Schoenberg, Wolff, and Xenakis
Subtitle: essays in contemporary music
By: Thomas DeLio ; edited by Patricia Burt ; with a preface by Christopher Shultis
Contributors: Burt, Patricia, editor; Shultis, Christopher, writer of preface
Publisher: Edwin Mellen Press
Published: 2017
Place of publication: Lewiston, New York
Language: eng
Number of pages: 356
ISBN-13: 9781495505928
Copyright date: 2017
Subjects: Music; History and criticism; Analysis, appreciation; Composers
Notes: Collects DeLio's major analytical essays from 1980-2000.

Includes bibliographical references (pages 345-351) and discography (pages 353-356).
Table of contents: title: The morphology of a global structure : John Cage's Variations II (1980); title: Spatial design in Elliott Carter's Canon for 3 (1980); title: The dialectics of structure and materials : Iannis Xenakis' Nomos alpha (1980); title: Structural pluralism : Robert Ashley's in memoriam...Esteban Gomez (1981); title: Structure as context (1981); title: Steve Reich (1981); title: Toward an art of imminence : Morton Feldman's Durations III, #3 (1983); title: The shape of sound : Alvin Lucier's Music for pure waves, bass drums and acoustic pendulums (1983); title: Structure as behavior : Christian Wolff's For one, two or three people (1984); title: A proliferation of canons : Luigi Dallapiccola's Goethe Lieder nos. 2 and 6 (1985/87); title: Structure and strategy : Iannis Xenakis' Linaia-agon (1987); title: Time transfigured : Erik Satie's Parade (1993); title: Language and form in an early atonal composition : Schoenberg's op. 19 #2 (1994); title: Morton Feldman's Last pieces #3 (1996); title: On Christian Wolff (2000).