The Oxford Handbook of Spectral Music

The handbook presents a cross-section of current scholarly research on the spectral music movement and its legacy, from its founding in the mid-1970's to the present. It will appeal to scholars, composers, and students desiring to become better acquainted with the broad influence of spectral music.

Table des matières

• Part I Introduction


• Chapter 1. Introduction


• Part II Spectral Precedents


• Chapter 2. Skryabin's Mystical Space and the Spectral Attitude


• Kenneth Smith


• Chapter 3. Hugues Dufourt's Epistemology of Fields, vis-à-vis Varÿse and Bachelar


• d Matthew Mendez


• Chapter 4. Olivier Messiaen: Spectralist


• Robert Sholl


• Chapter 5. Paul Hindemith's Technologically Mediated Concept of Nature


• Alexandra Monchick


• Chapter 6. Scelsi's Pfhat: Apparitions of a Monumental Past


• Rebecca Leydon


• Chapter 7. György Ligeti as a Forerunner to Spectral Composition


• Benjamin Levy


• Chapter 8. A Short History of Just Intonation in America


• Kyle Gann


• Chapter 9. James Tenney and the Theory of Harmony


• Robert Wannamaker


• Chapter 10. The Incorporeal Music of Eliane Radigue


• Charles Curtis


• Part III Spectralisms


• Chapter 11. Gérard Grisey and Spectra as Theoretical and Practical Models


• François-Xavier Féron


• Chapter 12. Hugues Dufourt and the Origins of His World


• Marilyn Nonken


• Chapter 13. Tristan Murail's Poetics of Music


• Liam Cagney


• Chapter 14. Timbre, Technology, and Hybridization in the Music of Michael Levïnas


• Eddie Campbell


• Chapter 15. Timbral-Harmonic Hierarchy in Claude Vivier's Lonely Child


• Christopher Gainey


• Chapter 16. On Saariaho's Microsonology


• Judith Lochhead


• Chapter 17. Spectralism as "Spiritual Breakthrough" in the Music of Jonathan Harvey


• Arnold Whittall


• Chapter 18. Spectral aesthetics and slow listening in the music of Helena Tulve


• Amy Bauer


• Chapter 19. Philippe Leroux and the Notion of the Post-Spectral


• Paul Clift


• Chapter 20. Peter Ablinger and the Liminal Voice


• Rebecca Flore


• Chapter 21. Harmonic structure, optics, and ideology in the music of Georg Friedrich Haas


• Amy Bauer and Landon Morrison


• Chapter 22. Psychedelic Rock, Techno, and the Music of Fausto Romitelli


• Arbo, Alessandro


• Part IV Spectralism in cross-cultural context


• Chapter 23. Horatiu Radulescu and the Intangible Dimensions of Plasmatic Music


• Liviu Marinescu


• Chapter 24. Jean Louis Florentz and Spectralism


• Robert Sholl


• Chapter 25. Transcending Ethnic Borders in Spectral Music


• Yayoi Uno Everett


• Chapter 26. Spectralism in the Service of Expression and Irishness in the Music of Donnacha Dennehy


• Nicole Grimes


• Part V Spectral Performance Practices


• Chapter 27. An Attitude Towards the Performance of Spectral Music


• Marilyn Nonken


• Chapter 28. Performing Spectral Ensemble Works by Grisey and Dumitrescu


• Richard Carrick


• Chapter 29. Sources, aesthetics and performance in Radulescu's Piano Sonatas


• Ian Pace


• Part VI Critical and Material Perspectives


• Chapter 30. Sound in Itself: the French theorization of timbre


• James Steintrager


• Chapter 31. The Phenomenological Turn in Romanian Spectralism


• Aaron Hayes


• Chapter 32. Spectralism and Research in Psychoacoustics and Music Perception


• Philippe Lalitte


• Chapter 33. French Spectral music and improvisation


• Stephen Lehman


• Chapter 34. Expression and Technologies of Perception in DiCastri and Adamcyk's Phonobellow


• William Mason


• Chapter 35. Dynamic Form and Models for Analyzing Processive Form in Spectral Music


• Joshua Banks Mailman


• Chapter 36. "La voix comme radicale altérité"? Spectral Music for the Voice


• Lukas Haselböck


• Part VII Spectral composers on their work


• Chapter 37. Spectral Methodology of the Virtual and Physical in the Sonic Art of Patricia Alessandrini


• Patricia Alessandrini and Timothy Rutherford-Johnson


• Chapter 38. Edmund Campion's Spectral Influences


• Edmund Campion


• Chapter 39. Embodied Practice and Historical Aspectuality in Ken Ueno's "Person-Specific" Concertos


• Ken Ueno


• Chapter 40. Jean Luc Hervé and his Aesthetic of Surroundings


• Jean Luc Hervé


• Chapter 41. Sounds and Spectra as Symbols


• Jacob Sudol


• Index

A propos de l'auteur

Amy Bauer is Professor of Music at the University of California, Irvine. She has published articles and book chapters on the music of Thomas Adès, Carlos Chávez, Marc-Andre Dalbavie, Georg Friedrich Haas, Helmut Lachenmann, Mauro Lanza, David Lang, György Ligeti, Olivier Messiaen, Gabriela Ortiz, Salvatore Sciarrino, Helena Tulve, and Claude Vivier, as well as on television music, opera, spectral music, and the philosophy and reception of modernist music and music theory. Her monographs include Ligeti's Laments: Nostalgia, Exoticism and the Absolute (2011), and the collection György Ligeti's Cultural Identities (2017), co-edited with Márton Kerékfy.

Liam Cagney is Lecturer in Music at BIMM University. His musical criticism regularly appears in publications like the Irish Times, Gramophone, the Guardian, the TLS, the Spectator, the Telegraph, VAN, and Frieze and his podcast with Stephen Graham, Talking Musicology, was nominated for a Classical:NEXT

Innovation Award. Liam's first monograph Gérard Grisey and Spectral Music Composition in the Information Age was published in 2024.

Will Mason is Associate Professor of Music at Wheaton College (MA). His work as a composer and performer has appeared on New Amsterdam Recordings and Exit Stencil Records. His scholarship covers topics ranging from microtonality to electroacoustic music, particularly concerning philosophies of embodiment.

Résumé

The handbook presents a cross-section of current scholarly research on the spectral music movement and its legacy, from its founding in the mid-1970's to the present. It will appeal to scholars, composers, and students desiring to become better acquainted with the broad influence of spectral music.

Détails du produit

• Auteurs: Bauer
• Collaboration: Amy Bauer (Editeur), Bauer Amy (Editeur), Liam Cagney (Editeur), William Mason (Editeur), Mason William (Editeur)
• Edition: Oxford Academic
• Langues: Anglais
• Format d'édition: Livre Relié
• Sortie: 23.08.2025
• EAN: 9780190633547
• ISBN: 978-0-19-063354-7
• Poids: 3 g
• Illustrations: 214
• Thème: Oxford Handbooks
• Catégories: Sciences humaines, art, musique > Musique > Histoire de la musique; MUSIC / Genres & Styles / General, MUSIC / History & Criticism, Music reviews & criticism, Music reviews and criticism, Music: styles and genres, Music: styles & genres