Word: musicologist
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...composer does not feel comfortable in any single camp, he needs great skill and daring to assimilate several influences without eclecticism--while forging his own style. Elliott Carter, one of the few American composers to reach eminence since the war, has done just that. While any musicologist can find traces of, say, Bartok or Stravinsky somewhere in his music, both are completely integrated into a distinct personal style. A performance of his new Second String Quartet, which won the Pulitzer music prize in 1960, reconfirms this opinion...
...music of Claude Debussy is the key to the "cross-fertilization of musical and poetic values that formed a fusion of the arts," a British musicologist maintained yesterday in the first Louis C. Elton lecture. Critic, scholar and composer, Edward Lockspeiser spoke on "Debussy, Poe and Freud: a New Approach to the Music of Cur Time...
...Then he sat down and. listened to the world premiere of his own new work-Motets for Tenor and Piano. Thus in a single evening last week, during the Berlin Festival, Paul Hindemith, 64, got a rare chance to wear all his musical caps-as composer, conductor, musicologist and instrumentalist...
...passing band. What he was pondering, explained Klee, was the rhythmic relationship between the music and the slabs of concrete passing beneath his feet. To illustrate, he drew a sketch: a stream of smoothly flowing lines set off against a series of thrusting rectangles. Klee, son of a musicologist and himself an accomplished violinist, long wavered between music and painting; throughout his life (he died in 1940) he kept seeing rhythmic parallels between the two arts. "And so I gently slide into the world of tonality," said he at 24, when he began to turn from etching to painting...
...ILLUSTRATED HISTORY OF Music, by Marc Pincherle (220 pp.; Reynal; $18), is a bold undertaking by a noted French musicologist: a history of Western music from early Christian chants to the present. Like any authoritative book that covers so vast a field, it seems perfunctory at times. But the basic information is there, and great taste has gone into the selection of 240 illustrations, ranging from a loth century B.C. harpist to Jazzman Sydney Bechet...