Elliott Carter: Collected Essays and Lectures, 1937-1995

by Elliott Carter

Book Overview

Elliott Carter b.1908] is now generally acknowledged as America's most eminent living composer. This definitive volume of his essays and lectures -- many previously unpublished or uncollected -- shows his thinking and writing onmusic and associated issues developing in parallel with his career as a composer; his reputation became established in the 1950s, and the material in this book offers an important and knowledgeable commentary on the course...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1580460259
• ISBN13: 9781580460255
• Release Date: February 1998
• Publisher: University of Rochester Press
• Length: 392 Pages
• Weight: 1.20 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.8" x 6.1" x 9.0"