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  • 13 - Sonorities and Spectra

  • from Part III - Styles, Conventions, and Issues
  • Edited by Toby Young, Guildhall School of Music and Drama
  • Book:
    The Cambridge Companion to Composition
    Published online:
    25 May 2024
    Print publication:
    30 May 2024, pp 198-216

  • Summary

    This chapter presents an understanding of compositional practice based fundamentally on sound and space, and looks at a range of case studies that explore the harmonic, timbral, and material consequences of this approach. The chapter concludes by arguing that the variety of approaches discussed succeed because the concern with sound permeates every stage of compositional thinking and does not just manifest in specific compositional techniques.

  • Chapter 32 - Messiaen and Spectralism

  • from Part IV - Concepts and Legacy
  • Edited by Robert Sholl, Royal Academy of Music and University of West London
  • Book:
    Messiaen in Context
    Published online:
    09 November 2023
    Print publication:
    30 November 2023, pp 298-305

  • Summary

    The spectralist composers in Messiaen’s class of 1971#–2 are an important part of Messiaen’s legacy. This chapter addresses how Messiaen’s work was essential to the creative thinking of Tristan Murail and Gérard Grisey. It focusses on what these composers absorbed from Messiaen and how they qualified, extended, and enriched his legacy. In particular it understands these composers through the lens of an ecology of listening in which the concerns of the listener are an active formant in the compositional thinking.