Cooperation and other unifying processes in Elliott Carter's Esprit Rude/Esprit Doux trilogy

Elliott Carter frequently organizes the formal design of his compositions with long-range polyrhythms, such that different parts of the texture move at different, slow tempi, often arranged so that their beats coincide exactly twice, at the beginning and the end of the piece. Many theorists have co...

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Main Author: Arthur, Claire
Format: Others
Language:English
Published: University of British Columbia 2008
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Online Access:http://hdl.handle.net/2429/1608