Musicology for Landscape

Informationen zum Autor Dr David Nicholas Buck is founder of his eponymous design practice and is a landscape architect and educator with a special interest in the temporality of landscape. He has designed projects in Asia and the UK and has published widely on a range of design topics. Klappentext A Musicology for Landscape makes available to a wider landscape architecture and urban design audience the works of three influential composers - Morton Feldman, Gyorgi Ligeti and Michael Finnissy - presenting a critical evaluation of their work within music, as well as a means in which it might be used in design research. Zusammenfassung A Musicology for Landscape makes available to a wider landscape architecture and urban design audience the works of three influential composers - Morton Feldman, Gyorgi Ligeti and Michael Finnissy - presenting a critical evaluation of their work within music, as well as a means in which it might be used in design research. Inhaltsverzeichnis 1. In an Open Field. Reflective Window. Made by Walking. Everything Under the Sky. The Deception of the Eye. Time Revealed, Time Concealed. Uncertain Precedents. The Time of Music. Creative Transcription. A Musicology for Landscape Architecture. 2. A Parallel History of Time in Music and Landscape. Music. Landscape. 3. Horizons . Morton Feldman. Space in the Development of Music Notation. Time Represented by Space. This Departing Landscape. ‘Realising’ Feldman. Sound and Shaped Time. Transcribing Manhattan. Sounds of the City. Notation of Space. 4. Clouds . György Ligeti. Sound on Paper. Dimensions of Time and Space. The View from the Road. A Cinematic Landscape. Lines Burnt in Light. The Time of Landscape. A Proximity to Notation. Notation of Time. 5. Meadows . Michael Finnissy. Melty Watercolours with Samuel Palmer Gloom on Top. Landscape Drawn Through Sound. Pink Elephants . Each Bird is Known by its Song. 655 Seconds of Antipodean Landscape. An Iconography of New Landscape Notations. 923 Above . Early Design Notation. Rousham’s History of Sound. Five Over Eleven. Ut Pictura Sonitu . Concluding the Picturesque. Notation of Material. 6. Busoni's Garden. Horizons, Clouds, Meadows . A New Relationship to Notation. Touching at a Distance. Sound Plus Vision. Notation as Landscape, Landscape as Notation. Busoni’s garden. Bibliography. ...

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• Authors: BUCK, David N. Buck, David Nicholas Buck
• Assisted by: Teddy Cruz (Editor of the series), Murray Fraser (Editor of the series), Jonathan Hill (Editor of the series), Jane Rendell (Editor of the series)
• Publisher: Taylor & Francis Ltd.
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 16.05.2017
• EAN: 9781138694422
• ISBN: 978-1-138-69442-2
• No. of pages: 214
• Series: Design Research in Architecture; Design Research in Architectur; Design Research in Architecture; Design Research in Architectur
• Subjects: Humanities, art, music > Art > Architecture; Landscape art & architecture, ARCHITECTURE / Landscape, The arts: general issues, ARCHITECTURE / General, The environment, Theory of music & musicology, Gardens (descriptions, history etc), Human Geography, 20th Century & Contemporary Classical Music, Landscape architecture and design, Art music, orchestral and formal music, Theory of architecture, Theory of music and musicology, The arts: general topics