Elliott Carter: Collected Essays and Lectures, 1937-1995
Carter, Elliott / Bernard, Jonathan W / Bernard, Jonathan W
Elliott Carter (b.1908) is now generally acknowledged as America's most eminent living composer. This definitive volume of his essays and lectures -- many previously unpublished or uncollected -- shows his thinking and writing on music and associated issues developing in parallel with his career as a composer, his reputation became established in the 1950s, and the material in this book offers an important and knowledgeable commentary on the c...