Ferruccio Busoni as Architect of Sound
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Product details:
- Publisher OUP USA
- Date of Publication 4 May 2023
- ISBN 9780197625491
- Binding Hardback
- No. of pages328 pages
- Size 236x163x27 mm
- Weight 617 g
- Language English
- Illustrations 36 b/w figures, 20 music examples 409
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Short description:
Ferruccio Busoni as Architect of Sound presents Busoni as an innovator inspired not only by past musical traditions but also by a contemporary interest in experimentalism and architecture. Author Erinn E. Knyt explores how Busoni's compositional innovation made a lasting impact in musical language and spatialized architectural music.
MoreLong description:
Ferruccio Busoni as Architect of Sound presents the composer as an innovator inspired not only by past musical traditions but also by a contemporary interest in experimentalism. In the twentieth-century, Busoni wrote pieces where sound radiates from different directions, created montage formal structures, and freely used all twelve pitches of the chromatic scale without avoiding consonances. This book reveals how he also applied his understanding of tangible architectural spaces, buildings, and floor plans to his music, reconciling the spatial and temporal divide in music through an interdisciplinary approach. His innovation prompted and inspired new trends in pitch organization, the spatialization of sound, and the expansion of formal structures. Transcending physical boundaries of compositional innovation, Busoni also engaged in a rich exchange of ideas with contemporary architects and artists.
Through a broad analysis of Busoni's compositional activities, musicologist Erinn E. Knyt brings Busoni's music into dialogue with more recent accounts of modernism in music that move beyond elitist esotericism and notions of rupture with the past. In addition, she facilitates a discourse between Busoni and other twentieth-century artists and explores how Busoni's spatialized architectural music left a lasting imprint on future generations of musicians and early film pioneers.
Erinn E. Knyt, currently the most active Busoni scholar, continues her series of detailed examinations of his contribution to music in the first quarter of the twentieth century, here on an extended scale. Supported as in former publications by careful archival work, she shows how his lifelong fascination with architecture and related concepts permeated many aspects of his original works and arrangements. Her conceptualization of Busoni's creative work contributes to a better understanding of the forms that musical modernism can take when not tied to a clear break with the past as the sole criterion for significance.
Table of Contents:
List of Illustrations
Acknowledgements
Introduction: Ferruccio Busoni and Architecture
Chapter One: The Cathedral of the Future and Young Classicality
Chapter Two: Busoni's Architectural Structures
Chapter Three: The Circle of Sound
Chapter Four: Busoni's Liquid Architecture
Chapter Five: Beyond Busoni: Building Music in the Twentieth Century
Selected Bibliography
Index
