Lutoslawski Studies

by Skowron, Zbigniew

• ISBN13: 9780198166603
• ISBN10: 0198166605
• Format: Hardcover
• Copyright: 2001-09-13
• Publisher: Oxford University Press

Summary

Lutoslawski Studies presents for the first time an overview of the great twentieth-century composer Witold Lutoslawskis works and his compositional style. Whereas most previous literature on Lutoslawski's music has focussed on disparate or isolated aspects of his compositional technique, thisstudy encompasses areas such as the composer's aesthetics, the evolution of his style, and the compositional strategies which apply to broader periods of his creativity. The international team of contributors (including the leading Lutoslawski scholars Steve Stucky, Charles Bodman Rae, and MartinaHomma) bring to this study the results of recent research, offering a broader approach that links many issues which have been treated selectively in former studies, as well as throwing new light on the essence of the composer's music and the way in which modern and traditional elementsco-exist.

Table of Contents

List of Music Examples	xi
Note on Contributors	xvi
PART I -- AESTHETICS
Lutoslawski's Aesthetics: A Reconstruction of the Composer's Outlook	3	(13)
Zbigniew Skowron
Lutoslawski's Sound-World: A World of Contrasts	16	(20)
Charles Bodman Rae
The Visionary and the Dramatic in the Music of Lutoslawski	36	(21)
John Casken
Poetic and Dramatic Schemes in Lutoslawski's Vocal-Instrumental Works	57	(39)
Benoit Aubigny
'Dans la Nuit': The Themes of Death and Night in Lutoslawski's Ceuvre	96	(31)
Maja Trochimczyle
PART 2 -- STYLE AND COMPOSITIONAL TECHNIQUE
Change and Constancy: The Essential Lutoslawski	127	(36)
Steven Stucky
Considerations of Symphonic Form in the Music of Lutoslawski	163	(31)
James Harley
Loutslawski's Studies in Twelve-Tone Rows	194	(17)
Martina Homma
Jeux venitiens: Working Methods at the Start of Lutoslawski's Mature Period	211	(33)
Adrian Thomas
Between Polarity and Synthesis: The Modernist Paradigm in Lutoslawski's Concertors for Cello and Piano	244	(25)
Arnold Whittall
The Stylistic Traits of Witold Lutoslawski's Works for Solo Instrument and Piano	269	(18)
Jadwiga Paja-Stach
The Intergrative Role of Motion Patterns in Lutoslawski's Mature Symphonic Works: A Comparison of Livre pour orchestre and the Symphony No. 4	287	(18)
Andrzej Tuchowski
On the Types of Chain Connections in the Late Music of Lutoslawski: Some Remarks on Chain 1 for Chamber Ensemble and Chain 3 for Orchestra	305	(19)
Irina Nikolska
Microtones in the Music of Lutoslawski	324	(32)
Peter Petersen
Select Bibliography	356	(6)
Index	362