Pierre Boulez Studies

Contents

• Preface;
• Part I . The Context of the Late 1940s and 1950s:
• 1. Pierre Boulez: composer, traveller, correspondent Edward Campbell;
• 2. Traces of an apprenticeship: Pierre Boulez's Sonatine (1946/1949) Susanne Gartner;
• 3. Schoenberg vive Jessica Payette;
• Part II . The Evolution of a Style:
• 4. 'A score neither begins nor ends; at most it pretends to': fragmentary reflections on the Boulezian non finito Robert Piencikowski;
• 5. Serial organisation and beyond: cross-relations of determinants in Le Marteau sans maitre and the dynamic pitch-algorithm of Constellation Pascal Decroupet;
• 6. 'Du Fond d'un Naufrage': the quarter-tone compositions of Pierre Boulez Werner Strinz;
• 7. Alea and the concept of the 'work in progress' Peter O'Hagan;
• 8. Casting new light on Boulezian Serialism: unpredictability and free choice in the composition of Pli selon pli - portrait de Mallarme Erling E. Guldbrandsen;
• 9. Serial processes, agency and improvisation Joseph Salem;
• 10. Listening to doubles in stereo Jonathan Goldman;
• 11. Composing an improvisation at the beginning of the 1970s Paolo Dal Molin;
• Part III . Reception Studies:
• 12. Pierre Boulez in London: the William Glock years Peter O'Hagan;
• 13. Tartan from Baden-Baden: Boulez at the 1965 Edinburgh International Festival Edward Campbell;
• 14. Pierre Boulez and the suspension of narrative Arnold Whittall.