Morton Feldman''s Piano and String Quartet - Analysis, Aesthetics, and Experience of a 20th-Century Masterpiece

Written in 1985, the year before Feldman's death, this single movement 80-minute composition is heralded by many to be the composer's crowning achievement. The book is a complete analysis of the work, including the aural experience, and includes interviews with notable Feldman performers: David Harrington of the Kronos Quartet and Aki Takahashi.

About the author

Ray Fields is a composer, analyst, and researcher. His works are performed at festivals, conferences, sacred settings, public spaces, and on-line. He studied with Thomas DeLio, Robert Gibson, Mark Edwards Wilson, and Christopher Pavlakis. His preparation for analyzing Morton Feldman's Piano and String Quartet included three weeks of study at the Feldman Archive of the Paul Sacher Stiftung in Basel, Switzerland; interviews with David Harrington of the Kronos Quartet and pianist Aki Takahashi, who premiered and recorded the work, as well as other performers of Feldman's music; and cognitive research on the aural experience of the composition itself.

Product details

• Authors: Ray Fields
• Publisher: Rowman and Littlefield
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 30.09.2022
• EAN: 9781538172278
• ISBN: 978-1-5381-7227-8
• No. of pages: 136
• Subjects: Humanities, art, music > Music > Miscellaneous; Music, Individual composers & musicians, specific bands & groups, MUSIC / Instruction & Study / Theory, MUSIC / Individual Composer & Musician, MUSIC / Reference, Reference works, Musicians, singers, bands & groups, Theory of music & musicology, Composers & songwriters