Week 7

European Minimalism

Louis Andriessen, Harrison Birwistle, Gavin Bryars


Introduction, and Chapter 3, Yayoi Uno Everett, The Music of Louis Andriessen Cambridge University Press, 2007.

 

Robert Adlington, "Pulse," in The Music of Harrison Birtwistle, (ambridge University Press, 2000), 105-112.

 

Philip Rupprecht, "Epilogue: ‘rhythmic development' in The Axe Manual (2000)," from Harrison Birtwistle Studies, David Beard, Kenneth Gloag, Nicholas Jones, eds. (Cambridge University Press, 2015), 57-62.

 

Christopher Fox, "Gavin Bryars at 60: Sharp Practice," The Musical Times 144/1884 (2003): 15-25.

 

Music

Louis Andriessen

 

Worker's Union.

Hoketus

De Stijl.

De Staat Score video, Nederlands Blazers Ensemble

La Commedia (opera-film)

 

Harrison Birtwistle

 

Harrison's Clocks V, played by Pierre-Laurent Aimard

Harrison's Clocks score video

The Axe Manual for piano and marimba (2000) score video

The Axe Manual performed by Aleck Karis and Ross Karre

Silbury Air score video

Pulse Shadows

 

Gavin Bryars

 

The Sinking of the Titanic 1969

The Squirrel and the Rickety-Racketty Bridge, for two guitars, one player (1971)

Jesus' Blood Never Failed Me Yet 1975

Gavin Bryars and Juan Muñoz, A Man in a Room, Gambling (excerpt)

A Man in a Room, Gambling: Prog. 10

 

Scores

Andriessen

 

Worker's Union, Hoketus De Staat De Stijl

 

Birtwistle

 

Harrison's Clocks Pulse shadows

 

Additional Reading

David Wright, Louis Andriessen: Polity, Time, Speed, Substance," Tempo 187 (1993): 7-14.

Arnold Whittall, "The Mechanisms of Lament: Harrison Birtwistle's 'Pulse Shadows'," Music & Letters 80/1 (1999): 86-102.

Aleksandra Vojcic, "A Sonorous Image of Time-Stretching in Birtwistle's 'Harrison's Clocks', Perspectives of New Music 48/1 (Winter 2010): 5-43.

John Roeder and Scott Alexander Cook, "Triadic Transformation and Parsimonious Voice Leading in Some Interesting Passages by Gavin Bryars.” Integral 20 (2006), 43-67.