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American composer Morton Feldman is increasingly seen to have been one of the key figures in late-twentieth-century music, with his work exerting a powerful influence into the twenty-first century. At the same time, much about his music remains enigmatic, largely due to long-standing myths about supposedly intuitive or aleatoric working practices.In Composing Ambiguity, Alistair Noble reveals key aspects of Feldman's musical language as it developed during a crucial period in the early 1950s. Drawing models from primary sources, including Feldman's musical sketches, he shows that Feldman worked deliberately within a two-dimensional frame, allowing a focus upon the fundamental materials of sounding pitch in time. Beyond this, Feldman's work is revealed to be essentially concerned with the 12-tone chromatic field, and with the delineation of complexes of simple proportions in 'crystalline' forms.Through close reading of several important works from the early 1950s, Noble shows that there is a remarkable consistency of compositional method, despite the varied experimental notations used by Feldman at this time. Not only are there direct relations to be found between staff-notated works and grid scores, but much of the language developed by Feldman in this period was still in use even in his late works of the 1980s.

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Book category Books in English The arts Music Music: styles & genres

• Full title: Composing Ambiguity: The Early Music of Morton Feldman
• Author: Alistair Noble
• Language: English
• Binding: Hardback
• Number of pages: 232
• EAN: 9781409451648
• ISBN: 140945164X
• ID: 04783535
• Publisher: Taylor & Francis Ltd
• Weight: 600 g
• Dimensions: 236 × 165 × 25 mm
• Date of publishing: 10. April 2013

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