Elliott Carter Studies

Contents

• Preface Marguerite Boland and John Link;
• Part I . Overview: Music Early and Late:
• 1. The true significance of Elliott Carter's early works Jonathan Bernard;
• 2. Elliott Carter's late music John Link;
• Part II . Analysis and Aesthetics:
• 3. The search for order: Carter's late-modern thematicism Arnold Whittall;
• 4. Ritornello form in Carter's Boston and ASKO concertos Marguerite Boland;
• 5. 'The matter of human cooperation' in Carter's mature style John Roeder;
• 6. Time management: rhythm as a formal determinant in certain works of Elliott Carter Andrew Mead;
• 7. 'I try to write music that will appeal to an intelligent listener's ear': on Elliott Carter's string quartets Doerte Schmidt;
• 8. Composition with intervals: melodic invention in Elliott Carter's recent concertos Stephen Heinemann;
• Part III . Sketch Studies:
• 9. Left by the wayside: Elliott Carter's unfinished sonatina for oboe and harpsichord Felix Meyer;
• 10. At the edge of creation: Elliott Carter's sketches in the Library of Congress Stephen Soderberg;
• Part IV . Music and Text:
• 11. Three Illusions ... and maybe a fourth: a hermeneutic approach to Carter's music Max Noubel;
• 12. Layers of meaning: expression and design in Carter's songs Brenda Ravenscroft;
• 13. 'It's as if our voices made no sound': irony in episodes 10-15 of What Next? Guy Capuzzo;
• 14. Words and music in The Defense of Corinth Annette van Dyck-Hemming; Bibliography.