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Joel-Francois Durand in the Mirror Land
- Author: Durand, J-F
- Editor: Bernard, Jonathan W.
Joel-Francois Durand in the Mirror Land
- Author: Durand, J-F
- Editor: Bernard, Jonathan W.
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The second part of this volume comprises four essays on Durand’s music, contributed by three of his former composition students -- Christian Asplund, Eric Flesher, and Ryan M. Hare -- and by his colleague, music theorist Jonathan W. Bernard, who has also edited and introduced this absorbing portrait of the composer.
Contents
- Editor's Introduction
- Texts and Music by Durand
- --In the Mirror Land: Reflections on a Self-Reflection (2004)
- --Melody--Three Situations: Un Feu distinct, La Terre et le feu, Athanor (2004)
- --On Some Aspects of the Piano Concerto: Time as Generator of Space through Melody and Harmony (1996)
- --In the Mirror Land: Version for Flute and Oboe (2003)
- Texts by Others
- --Thematic Adaptation in Recent Works of Joel-Francois Durand / Eric Flesher
- --Centers, Fields, and Cracks: Some Solutions to the Problems of Contemporary Composition in the Music of Joel-Francois Durand / Ryan M. Hare
- --"As if to illustrate the process of creation itself": Joel-Francois Durand's Lichtung / Christian Asplund
- --Durand, Bernhard, and Form / Jonathan W. Bernard
- Biography
- List of Works
- Contributors
- Index
