Music Sketches

This introduction provides students and scholars with the information and skills they need when studying composers' sketches.

List of contents

Preface; 1. Introduction; 2. Sketch studies past and present; 3. Tracking down evidence of the creative process; 4. The physical objects of the compositional process; 5. Studying loose leaves; 6. Sketchbooks; 7. Transcription and facsimile reproduction; 8. Sketches and the critical edition of music; 9. Dangerous liaisons: the evolving relationship between sketch studies and analysis; 10. Musical palimpsests; Appendix: Beethoven sketchbooks published between 1913 and 2013; Glossary.

About the author

Friedemann Sallis is a professor in the Department of Music at the University of Calgary. His publications include A Handbook to Twentieth-Century Musical Sketches (co-edited with Patricia Hall, 2004), Centre and Periphery, Roots and Exile: Interpreting the Music of István Anhalt, György Kurtág and Sándor Veress (co-edited with Robin Elliott and Kenneth DeLong, 2011), and numerous articles on twentieth-century music. He has acquired broad experience within the field of sketch studies, particularly with twentieth-century composers and performers, including György Kurtág, György Ligeti, Luigi Nono and Glenn Gould.

Product details

• Authors: Friedemann Sallis, Friedemann (University of Calgary) Sallis, Friedemann Hall Sallis
• Assisted by: Friedemann Sallis (Editor)
• Publisher: Cambridge University Press Academic
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 29.01.2015
• EAN: 9780521866484
• ISBN: 978-0-521-86648-4
• Dimensions: 177 mm x 250 mm x 20 mm
• Series: Cambridge Introductions to Music; Print on Demand; Cambridge Introductions to Music; Cambridge Introductions to Mus
• Subject: Humanities, art, music > Music > General, dictionaries