Elliott Carter

138 Pages·2011·1.173 MB·English

by  James Wierzbicki

american composers
Elliott
Carter
James Wierzbicki
elliott carter
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american
Composers
A list of books in the series appears
at the end of this book.
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Elliott
Carter
James Wierzbicki
university of illinois press
Urbana, Chicago, and Springfield
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© 2011 by the Board of Trustees
of the University of Illinois
All rights reserved
Manufactured in the
United States of America
1 2 3 4 5 c p 5 4 3 2 1 Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data
∞ This book is printed Wierzbicki, James Eugene.
Elliott Carter / James Wierzbicki.
on acid-free paper.
p. cm. — (American composers)
Includes bibliographical references and index.
isbn-13: 978-0-252-03609-5 (hardcover : alk. paper)
isbn-10: 0-252-03609-3 (hardcover : alk. paper)
isbn-13: 978-0-252-07800-2 (pbk. : alk. paper)
isbn-10: 0-252-07800-4 (pbk. : alk. paper)
1. Carter, Elliott, 1908–
2. Composers—United States—Biography.
I. Title.
ml410.c3293w54 2011
780.92—dc22 2010040228
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Le temps dont nous disposons chaque jour est élastique;
les passions que nous ressentons le dilatent, celles que nous
inspirons le rétrécissent et l’habitude le remplit.
[The time which we have at our disposal every day is elastic;
the passions that we feel expand it, those that we inspire
contract it; and habit fills up what remains.]
—Marcel Proust, À l’ombre des jeunes filles en fleurs (1919),
translated by C. K. Scott Moncrieff
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contents
introduction 1
1. Foundations (1908–45) 5
2. Three Seminal Works (1945–51) 32
3. Maturity (1950–80) 50
4. New Directions (1980–2010) 75
Epilogue 97
notes 101
index 117
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elliott carter
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