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Carter / David Schiff.

by Schiff, David.

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Oxford University Press, 2018.

Carter, Elliott, 1908-2012.

Carter, Elliott, 1908-2012 -- Criticism and interpretation.

Composers -- United States -- Biography.

Master musicians series.

9780190259150 (hc.)

xvi, 266 p. : ill. ; 25 cm.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Elliott Carter now -- Remembering Mr. Carter (a double portrait) -- A brief life of a very long life -- A modernistic education (1924-1935) -- Musician, wrestling (1935-1946) -- Turning points (1946-1948) -- Back to modernism. Back to futurism. Back to New York (1948-1975) -- Carter vs. poets (round 1) -- Macro Carter/Micro Carter (1983-1999) -- Multi-vehicle accidents -- Bagatelles -- Carter vs. poets (round 2) -- Farewell symphonies -- Epilogue: "Every note has life in it."

This text surveys the life and work of the great American composer Elliott Carter (1908-2012). It examines his formative, and often ambivalent, engagements with Charles Ives and other 'ultra-modernists', with the classicist ideas he encountered at Harvard and in his three years of study with Nadia Boulanger in Paris; and with the populism developed by his friends Aaron Copland and Marc Blitzstein in Depression-era New York, and the unique synthesis of modernist idioms that he began to develop in the late 1940s.

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