Thomas Adès Studies
About this book
Thomas Adès is a dominant force in contemporary music, whose work attracts significant attention and acclaim, and has been performed by many renowned ensembles. This volume – the first to present a range of scholarly essays on every aspect of Adès's music – offers authoritative accounts of Adès's major compositions from a variety of analytical, critical, cultural and historical perspectives. The opening chapters focus on Adès's earlier music, offering close readings of key works. Further essays focus on his engagement with forms and instrumental genres. The final chapters turn to Adès's texted music and highlight how themes introduced in earlier chapters cut across Adès's entire output. Richly illustrated with musical examples and supported by further online material, this book provides a multi-faceted portrait of Adès's work that opens up new ways of thinking about, and engaging with, his music.
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Table of contents
- Cover
- Half-title
- Title page
- Copyright information
- Dedication
- Contents
- List of Figures
- List of Tables
- List of Music Examples
- List of Online Materials
- List of Contributors
- Preface
- Acknowledgements
- Notes on the Text
- 1 'Chronically volatile': Gesture in Adès's Living Toys and America: A Prophecy
- 2 Performing Adès
- 3 'Fountain of Youth', 'River of Meaning': Aesthetics of the Superficial in Powder Her Face
- 4 'Oh brave new Caliban': Postcolonial Perspectives on Adès's The Tempest
- 5 Chaconnes in the Music of Adès
- 6 Closing the Circle?: Tevot and the Question of Symphonic Resolution
- 7 A World in Constant Motion: Adès's In Seven Days
- 8 Musique automatique? Adèsian Automata and the Logic of Disjuncture
- 9 Narrating the Dance of Death: Morality and Social Critique in Adès's Totentanz
- 10 Hearing Voices in Adès's Operas
- 11 The RICH Logic of Adès's The Exterminating Angel and The Tempest
- 12 Sonic Allegory in Adès's The Exterminating Angel
- Bibliography
- Index
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