Thomas Adès Studies
Part of Cambridge Composer Studies
- Editors:
- Edward Venn, University of Leeds
- Philip Stoecker, Hofstra University, New York
- Date Published: August 2024
- availability: Not yet published - available from October 2024
- format: Paperback
- isbn: 9781108708135
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Thomas Adès is a dominant force in contemporary music, whose work attracts significant attention and acclaim, and has been performed by many renowned ensembles. This volume – the first to present a range of scholarly essays on every aspect of Adès's music – offers authoritative accounts of Adès's major compositions from a variety of analytical, critical, cultural and historical perspectives. The opening chapters focus on Adès's earlier music, offering close readings of key works. Further essays focus on his engagement with forms and instrumental genres. The final chapters turn to Adès's texted music and highlight how themes introduced in earlier chapters cut across Adès's entire output. Richly illustrated with musical examples and supported by further online material, this book provides a multi-faceted portrait of Adès's work that opens up new ways of thinking about, and engaging with, his music.
Read more- The first collection of scholarly essays on this acclaimed contemporary composer
- A wide-ranging overview of Adès's work, covering almost all of his music
- Approaches Adès's music from a variety of theoretical and critical perspectives
Awards
- Winner, 2022 Outstanding Multi-Author Collection Award, Society for Music Theory
Reviews & endorsements
'the most comprehensive analytical account to date on the music of this living composer … a wonderfully integrated volume discussing all of the composer's major works …' Society for Music Theory Awards Committee
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- Date Published: August 2024
- format: Paperback
- isbn: 9781108708135
- length: 336 pages
- dimensions: 244 x 170 x 18 mm
- weight: 0.584kg
- availability: Not yet published - available from October 2024
Table of Contents
1. 'Chronically Volatile': Gesture in Adès's Living Toys and America: a Prophecy Philip Rupprecht
2. Performing Adès Edward Venn with Henry Weekes
3. 'Fountain of Youth', 'River of Meaning': Aesthetics of the Superficial in Powder Her Face Nicholas David Stevens
4. 'Oh Brave New Caliban': Postcolonial Perspectives on Adès's The Tempest Jane Forner
5. Chaconnes in the Music of Adès Philip Stoecker
6. Closing the Circle? Tevot and the Question of Symphonic Resolution Richard Powell
7. A World in Constant Motion: Adès's in Seven Days Amy Bauer
8. Musique Automatique? Adèsian Automata and the Logic of Disjuncture Brian Moseley
9. Narrating the Dance of Death: Morality and Social Critique in Adès's Totentanz Scott Lee
10. Hearing Voices in Adès's Operas Emma Gallon
11. The Rich Logic of Adès's the Exterminating Angel and The Tempest John Roeder
12. Sonic Allegory in Adès's the Exterminating Angel Yayoi Uno Everett
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