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Music lessons : the Collège de France lectures / Pierre Boulez ; translated by Jonathan Goldman, Jonathan Dunsby, Arnold Whittall.

By: Boulez, Pierre, 1925-2016 [author.]Contributor(s): Goldman, Jonathan, 1972- [translator.] | Dunsby, Jonathan [translator.] | Whittall, Arnold [translator.]Material type: TextTextLanguage: English Original language: French Publisher: London : Faber & Faber, 2018Description: 496 pages ; 24 cmContent type: text Media type: unmediated Carrier type: volumeISBN: 9780571334278 (hbk.) :Uniform titles: Works. Selections. English Subject(s): Boulez, Pierre, 1925-2016 | Boulez, Pierre, 1925-2016 -- Translations into English | Music -- 20th century -- History and criticism | Music | MusicDDC classification: 780.9'2 Summary: Pierre Boulez was appointed to the Collège de France in 1976, with the chair devoted to 'Invention, technique and language in Music', and he held his position until 1995. The publication of his extraordinary Collège de France lectures, his most significant writings from the 1970s to the 1990s, will make a major contribution to the discussion in English about Boulez's aesthetic legacy. His goal in Leçons de musique is to express his conception of musical language, laid out over the course of nearly twenty years of lecturing. He is thinking about the possible paths musical thought could take, as well as the musical legacy of the past.
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Pierre Boulez was appointed to the Collège de France in 1976, with the chair devoted to 'Invention, technique and language in Music', and he held his position until 1995. The publication of his extraordinary Collège de France lectures, his most significant writings from the 1970s to the 1990s, will make a major contribution to the discussion in English about Boulez's aesthetic legacy. His goal in Leçons de musique is to express his conception of musical language, laid out over the course of nearly twenty years of lecturing. He is thinking about the possible paths musical thought could take, as well as the musical legacy of the past.

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