The life and twelve-note music of Nikos Skalkottas
Eva Mantzourani provides a comprehensive study of this fascinating yet under-researched composer. The book comprises a critical biography, an exploration of Skalkottas's twelve-note compositional processes and analytical case studies, providing a diachronic framework within which Skalkottas's dodecaphonic compositional development can be more effectively viewed.
Print Book, English, ©2011
Ashgate Pub., Farnham, Surrey, England, ©2011
Biography
xxvi, 414 pages : illustrations, music ; 24 cm
9780754653103, 9781409434030, 0754653102, 1409434036
706965927
The early years in Greece (1904-1921)
The Berlin period
The Greek period
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
Berlin works
Linear serialism of the mid-1930s: "strict" twelve-note technique
Expansion of the mid-1930s "strict" twelve-note technique: First symphonic suite (1935)
Towards a free dodecaphonic technique
New directions in the last chamber works: tonal serialism