The Life and Twelve-Note Music of Nikos Skalkottas
- Author: Mantzourani, Eva
twelve-note music. Rich in examples and illustrated with tables that enable the reader to fully understand the functionality of sets, it succeeds in looking at Skalkottas with the right perspective,... — More…
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Contents
- Contents: Introduction
- Part I A Biographical Study: The early years in Greece (1904-1921)
- The Berlin period
- The Greek period. Part II Twelve-Note Technique: Introduction to part II
- The sets and set-groups
- Manipulation of the sets
- Derivation techniques
- Serial transformations: transposition, retrograde, inversion
- Set structure and phrase structure
- Set structure and large-scale form. Part III Twelve-Note Compositional Development: Case Studies: Introduction to part III
- Berlin works
- Linear serialism of the mid-1930s: 'strict' 12-note technique
- Expansion of the mid-1930s 'strict' 12-note technique: first Symphonic Suite (1935)
- Towards a free dodecaphonic technique
- New directions in the last chamber works: tonal serialism
- Epilogue
- Appendices
- Bibliography
- Index.