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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'the most comprehensive analytical account to date on the music of this living composer a wonderfully integrated volume discussing all of the composer's major works ' Society for Music Theory Awards Committee
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This wide-ranging and authoritative volume discusses the major works of acclaimed contemporary composer Adès from a variety of critical perspectives.
1. 'Chronically Volatile': Gesture in Adès's Living Toys and America: a
Prophecy Philip Rupprecht;
2. Performing Adès Edward Venn with Henry Weekes;
3. 'Fountain of Youth', 'River of Meaning': Aesthetics of the Superficial in
Powder Her Face Nicholas David Stevens;
4. 'Oh Brave New Caliban':
Postcolonial Perspectives on Adès's The Tempest Jane Forner;
5. Chaconnes in
the Music of Adès Philip Stoecker;
6. Closing the Circle? Tevot and the
Question of Symphonic Resolution Richard Powell;
7. A World in Constant
Motion: Adès's in Seven Days Amy Bauer;
8. Musique Automatique? Adèsian
Automata and the Logic of Disjuncture Brian Moseley;
9. Narrating the Dance
of Death: Morality and Social Critique in Adès's Totentanz Scott Lee;
10.
Hearing Voices in Adès's Operas Emma Gallon;
11. The Rich Logic of Adès's the
Exterminating Angel and The Tempest John Roeder;
12. Sonic Allegory in Adès's
the Exterminating Angel Yayoi Uno Everett; Index.
Edward Vennis Professor of Music at the University of Leeds. He is author of Thomas Adès: Asyla (2017) and The Music of Hugh Wood (2008) and has published many book chapters and journal articles on the analysis and interpretation of twentieth-century and contemporary music. He is editor of the journalMusic Analysis. Philip Stoecker is Professor of Music at Hofstra University. His research focuses on post-tonal theory and analysis, and the music of Thomas Adès, George Perle, and the Second Viennese School. He has published numerous journal articles on the music of the twentieth century.
