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""In the Mirror Land: Reflections on a Self-Reflection,"" the central essay in this collection of texts by and about French composer Joel-Francois Durand, is a wideranging self-interview in which Durand speaks candidly and engagingly about how and why he became a composer and about the ways in which this choice has shaped his musical and intellectual development. Peopling his conversation are poet Jackson Mac Low, novelist Thomas Bernhard, philosophers Martin Heidegger and Theodor W. Adorno, musicologist Carl Dahlhaus, and a host of others - painters, filmmakers, an architect - along with a vast company of composers from the twentieth and twenty-first centuries. Two further essays by Durand round out this collection of the composer's writings: an in-depth exposition and contemplation of the use of melody in his music and a short but intense analytical study of his Piano Concerto. 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.

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Author:   Jonathan W. Bernard ,  Jonathan W. Bernard
Publisher:   University of Washington Press
Imprint:   University of Washington Press
Dimensions:   Width: 15.20cm , Height: 1.90cm , Length: 22.90cm
Weight:   0.408kg
ISBN:  

9780295985756

ISBN 10:   0295985755
Pages:   278
Publication Date:   09 November 2005
Audience:   Professional and scholarly ,  Professional & Vocational
Format:   Paperback
Publisher's Status:   Out of Print
Availability:   Out of stock  

Table of 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"

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Joel-Francois Durand is professor of composition and Jonathan W. Bernard is professor of theory, both in the School of Music, University of Washington.

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