Kaija Saariaho: Visions, Narratives, Dialogues
- Author: Hargreaves, Jon
- Editor: Howell, Tim
this volume, as the first substantial engagement in English with Saariaho's music from an analytic-theoretical point of view, is a welcome and useful one —
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Contents
- Contents: Preludes and codas
- Part I Visions: Meet the composer: Kaija Saariaho in conversation with Tom Service
- From the air to the earth: reading the ashes, Daniel March
- Dreams about music, music about dreams, Anni Oskala. Part II Narratives: Stories from the mouth: flautists, bodily presence and intimacy in Saariaho's flute music, Taina Riikonen
- Capturing time and giving it form: Nymphea, Michael Rofe
- Whispers from the past: musical topics in Saariaho's operas, Liisamaija Hautsalo. Part III Dialogues: Dualities and dialogues: Saariaho's concertos, Tim Howell
- Dichotomies, relationships: timbre and harmony in revolution, Vesa KankaanpAA
- Networks of communication: (de)crystallization and perceptual zoom in Du Cristal, Jon Hargreaves
- Bibliography
- Index.