TY - BOOK ID - 48298723 TI - Xenakis : his life in music PY - 2017 SN - 0203958292 1280281413 9786610281411 0203342798 1135874948 0415885388 0415971454 PB - Abingdon, Oxon : Routledge, DB - UniCat KW - Composers KW - Xenakis, Iannis, KW - Xenakis, Yannis, KW - Xenakēs, Giannēs, KW - Xenakis, I. KW - Ksenakis, I︠A︡nnis, KW - Kusenakisu, Ianisu, KW - Xenakēs, Iannēs, KW - Xenakis, Jannis, KW - sonic KW - entities KW - sustained KW - sonority KW - melodic KW - contours KW - corbusier KW - olivier KW - messiaen KW - cluster UR - https://www.unicat.be/uniCat?func=search&query=sysid:48298723 AB - Xenakis: His Life in Music is a full-length study of the influential contemporary composer Iannis Xenakis. Following the trajectory of Xenakis’s compositional development, James Harley, who studied with Xenakis, presents the works together with clear explanations of the technical and conceptual innovations that shaped them. Harley examines the relationship between the composer and two early influences: Messiaen and Le Corbusier. Particular attention is paid to analyzing works which were vital to the composer’s creative development, from early, unpublished works to the breakthrough pieces Metastasis and Pithoprakta, through the oft-discussed decade of formalization and the evolving styles of the succeeding three decades. ER -