| Series |
Studies in contemporary music and culture ; no. 7
Studies in contemporary music and culture ; no. 7. ^A691397
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| Contents |
General introduction to Studies in Contemporary Music and Culture / Joseph Auner -- Learning. Dialog 1: Learning / Louis Andriessen and Maja Trochimczyk -- Louis Andriessen and his habitat / Frits van der Waa -- Composing. The man and his music: a portrait / Maja Trochimczyk -- Dialog 2: Fragments on composing / Louis Andriessen and Maja Trochimczyk -- Unisons and the Republic: Andriessen's minimalism / Maja Trochimczyk -- On conceiving time: conversations with Elmer Schonberger / Louis Andreissen and Elmer Schonberger -- Lectures for young composers / Louis Andriessen -- Ideas. Dialog 3: Interests and ideas / Louis Andriessen and Maja Trochimczyk -- Hadewijch: a mystic in the cathedral / Maja Trochimczyk -- Working with Louis: a conversation with Reinbert de Leeuw / Reinbert de Leeuw and Maja Trochimczyk -- Art. Dialog 4: Vermeer and painting / Louis Andriessen and Maja Trochimczyk -- Writing to Vermeer: a view of a "filmic" opera / Maja Trochimczyk -- Andriessen and the art of composing / Maja Trochimczyk. |
| Abstract |
This book presents the musician in dialog with a Polish-Canadian musicologist and three of his Dutch friends and collaborators, Reinbert de Leeuw, Elmer Schönberger and Frits van der Waa. Topics include his artistic evolution, his relationship to minimalism, his prevalent interest in mysticism and meaning, the use of quotation and writing for the stage and an introduction to his musical language. |
| Bibliography note | Includes bibliographical references (pages 307-312), discography (pages 313-315), and index. |
| LCCN | 2001041855 |
| ISBN | 0815337892 |
