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A Handbook to Twentieth-Century Musical Sketches

By: Patricia Hall (Editor), Friedemann Sallis (Editor)

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Published: 19th July 2012
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This indispensable handbook, first published in 2004, explains how scholars and students should work with and think about the composer's working manuscripts. This book surveys the knowledge necessary to work efficiently in archives and libraries housing this material and with the skills and techniques specifically related to sketch studies: transcription, reconstructing sketchbooks, deciphering handwriting, dating documents. It deals with the music of important twentieth-century composers and presents visual examples of manuscripts from the collections of world-renowned institutions such as the Paul Sacher Foundation. The book aims to make the work of both researchers and students more efficient and rewarding.

Introduction
Sketches and sketching
Preliminaries before visiting an archive
Archival etiquette
Coming to terms with the composer's working manuscripts
The classification of musical sketches exemplified in the catalogue of the Archivio Luigi Nono
Digital preservation of archival material
Transcribing sketches
A tale of two sketchbooks: reconstructing and deciphering Alban Berg's sketchbooks for Wozzeck
'Written between the desk and the piano': dating Béla Bartók's sketches
Defining compositional process: idea and instrumentation in Igor Stravinsky's Ragtime (1918) and Pribaoutki (1915)
Floating hierarchies: organisation and composition in works by Pierre Boulez and Karlheinz Stockhausen during the 1950s
Elliot Carter's sketches: spiritual exercises and craftsmanship
E-Sketches: Brian Ferneyhough's use of computer assisted compositional tools
John Cage's Williams Mix (1951-3): the restoration and new realizations of and variations on the first octophonic, surround-sound tape composition
Appendix: Select list of institutions housing manuscript collections of twentieth-century composers
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ISBN: 9781107405400
ISBN-10: 1107405408
Audience: Tertiary; University or College
Format: Paperback
Language: English
Number Of Pages: 270
Published: 19th July 2012
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Dimensions (cm): 24.6 x 18.9  x 1.4
Weight (kg): 0.49