Joel-Francois Durand in the Mirror Land

by Durand, Joel-Francois

• ISBN13: 9780295985749
• ISBN10: 0295985747
• eBook ISBN(s): 9780295801148
• Format: Hardcover
• Copyright: 2005-11-30
• Publisher: Univ of Washington Pr

Summary

"In the Mirror Land: Reflections on a Self-Reflection," the central essay in this collection of texts by and about French composer Joël-François Durand, is a wideranging self-interview in which Durand speaks candidly and engagingly about how and why he became a composer and about the ways in which this choice has shaped his musical and intellectual development. Peopling his conversation are poet Jackson Mac Low, novelist Thomas Bernhard, philosophers Martin Heidegger and Theodor W. Adorno, musicologist Carl Dahlhaus, and a host of others - painters, filmmakers, an architect - along with a vast company of composers from the twentieth and twenty-first centuries. Two further essays by Durand round out this collection of the composer's writings: an in-depth exposition and contemplation of the use of melody in his music and a short but intense analytical study of his Piano Concerto. The second part of this volume comprises four essays on Durand's music, contributed by three of his former composition students -- Christian Asplund, Eric Flesher, and Ryan M. Hare -- and by his colleague, music theorist Jonathan W. Bernard, who has also edited and introduced this absorbing portrait of the composer.

Author Biography

Joel-Francois Durand is professor of composition in the School of Music, University of Washington.

Table of Contents

EDITOR'S INTRODUCTION	vii
TEXTS AND MUSIC BY DURAND
In the Mirror Land: Reflections on a Self-Reflection (2004)	1	(88)
Melody—Three Situations: Un Feu distinct, La Terre et le feu, Athanor (2004)	89	(50)
On Some Aspects of the Piano Concerto: Time as Generator of Space through Melody and Harmony (1996)	139	(14)
In the Mirror Land: Version for Flute and Oboe (2003)	153	(10)
TEXTS BY OTHERS
Thematic Adaptation in Recent Works of Joël-François Durand
Eric Flesher	163	(10)
Centers, Fields, and Cracks: Some Solutions to the Problems of Contemporary Composition in the Music of Joël-François Durand
Ryan M. Hare	173	(10)
"As if to illustrate the process of creation itself": Joël-François Durand's Lichtung
Christian Asplund	183	(28)
Durand, Bernhard, and Form
Jonathan W. Bernard	211	(36)
BIOGRAPHY	247	(4)
LIST OF WORKS	251	(8)
CONTRIBUTORS	259	(2)
INDEX	261