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The Music of Edgard Varese
Bernard, Jonathan W.
308 pages, Hardcover
First published January 1, 1987
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October 29, 2008
The writing style is dry, but it's hard not to be impressed by the scope of Bernard's study. Chapters 2 and 3 are the most technical and jargon-filled but also the most impressive - Bernard comes up with a graphic notation system as a complement of traditional musical staves to express the complex spatial relationships that form the analytic foundation of Varese's music. Love or hate the music and he pedantry of music theory, it's tough not to be impressed by Varese's mind in light of what Bernard discovered about its structure, and by Bernard's mind in his completely novel form of analysis.
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