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Ferruccio Busoni as Architect of Sound by Associate Professor of Music History Erinn E Knyt; Erinn E. Knyt is a nonfiction available to read on EtoBox.

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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 discours

Who reads Ferruccio Busoni as Architect of Sound?

Author

Associate Professor of Music History Erinn E Knyt; Erinn E. Knyt

Publisher

Oxford University Press, Incorporated

Published

2023

Language

EN

ISBN

9780197625514

Category

nonfiction

Subjects

Music, History, Arts