440 Pages
by
Routledge
440 Pages
by
Routledge
440 Pages
by
Routledge
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Nikos Skalkottas is perhaps the last great 'undiscovered' composer of the twentieth century. In the 1920s he was a promising young violinist and composer in Berlin, and a student of Schoenberg, who included him among his most gifted pupils. It was only after his return to Greece in 1933 that Skalkottas became an anonymous and obscure figure, working in complete isolation until his death in 1949.... Read more
Contents: Introduction; Part I A Biographical Study: The early years in Greece (1904-1921); The Berlin period; The Greek period. Part II Twelve-Note Technique: Introduction to part II; The sets and set-groups; Manipulation of the sets; Derivation techniques; Serial transformations: transposition, retrograde, inversion; Set structure and phrase structure; Set structure and large-scale form. Part III Twelve-Note Compositional Development: Case Studies: Introduction to part III; Berlin works; Linear serialism of the mid-1930s: 'strict' 12-note technique; Expansion of the mid-1930s 'strict' 12-note technique: first Symphonic Suite (1935); Towards a free dodecaphonic technique; New directions in the last chamber works: tonal serialism; Epilogue; Appendices; Bibliography; Index.
Biography
Eva Mantzourani specializes in both Music Analysis and Musicology, and has a particular interest in the music of the Greek composer Nikos Skalkottas. She studied at the Aristotle University of Thessaloniki, Goldsmiths College, University of London, and King's College, University of London, where she received her PhD. She is a Reader in Music at Canterbury Christ Church University.
'Eva Mantzourani gives us the first major English language introduction to Skalkottas’ life and work in this book ... the book gives a very good impression of the compositional style of Nikos Skalkottas’ twelve-note music. Rich in examples and illustrated with tables that enable the reader to fully understand the functionality of sets, it succeeds in looking at Skalkottas with the right perspective, and in adding him to the realm of important dodecaphonic composers of the twentieth century'. Fontes artis musicae
