This is the first book to provide a complete listeners' guide to the piano works of Brazilian composer Marlos Nobre. The text focuses on the piano works of a living Brazillian composer Marlos Nobre. Through the book the reader will become familiar with not only all of Nobre's piano pieces, but with interesting aspects of his life, musical influences, and the circumstances that contributed to each of his compositions. Several dissertations have been written about the works of Nobre. Until now have readers and music lovers have not had access to a complete listeners' guide to Nobre's piano works. This reference book describes the complete catalogue of his musical productions for the piano. It contains a list of works, a description of each piece, factual information (date of premiere, who played, etc.), performance suggestions, and analysis. Such a catalogue will be a valuable reference not only for musicologists, performers, and music teachers, but also, due to Nobre's incorporation of Brazilian folk music. It serves the important function of disseminating the music of one of the most important contemporary composers of Latin America. Close contact with Marlos Nobre was essential to complete this book. Through his invaluable help, and specifically through the foreword, written by Nobre, the reader will be able to understand his personal relationship with the piano.
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• INTRODUCTION
• CHAPTER 1 A Parisian Apprenticeship
• CHAPTER 2 Towards twelve-note technique
• CHAPTER 3 First Sonata: ... a Rene Leibowitz...
• CHAPTER 4 Second Sonata: pulveriser le son
• CHAPTER 5 Chance and Inspiration in Structures Premier Livre
• CHAPTER 6 The Expansion of Serialism: Structures Deuxieme Livre, Chapitre I
• CHAPTER 7 Alea: Third Sonata, 1955-57
• CHAPTER 8 At the Limits of Serialism: Structures Deuxieme Livre, Chapitre II
• CHAPTER 9 Sonate, " Que me veux-tu " : Third Sonata, 1957-63
• CHAPTER 10 A competition piece and its consequences: Incises (1994/2001)
• CHAPTER 11 A Codetta: Une page d'ephemeride (2005) ... A Work in Progress... APPENDIX Objets trouves: an interview with Pierre Boulez.
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Pierre Boulez's first piano pieces date from his youth, prior to his studies in Paris with Messiaen, and his subsequent meteoric rise to international acclaim as the leader of the musical avant-garde during the 1950s. His most recent published work is a solo piano piece, Une page d'ephemeride, written some sixty years after his first attempts at composition. The piano has remained central to Boulez's creative work throughout his career, and although his renown as a conductor has to some extent overshadowed his other achievements, it was as a performer of his own piano music that his practical gifts first found expression. Peter O'Hagan has given performances of various unpublished piano works by Boulez, including Antiphonie from the Third Sonata and Trois Psalmodies. In this study, he considers Boulez's writing for the piano in the context of the composer's stylistic evolution throughout the course of his development. Each of the principal works is considered in detail, not only on its own terms, but also as a stage in Boulez's ongoing quest to invent radical solutions to the renewal of musical language and to reinvigorate tradition. The volume includes reference to hitherto unpublished source material, which sheds light on his working methods and on the interrelationship between works.
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