The Life and Twelve-note Music of Nikos SkalkottasNikos Skalkottas is perhaps the last great 'undiscovered' composer of the twentieth century. In the 1920s he was a promising young violinist and composer in Berlin, and a student of Schoenberg, who included him among his most gifted pupils. This book provides a comprehensive study of this fascinating composer. |
Contents
Introduction | 1 |
A BIOGRAPHICAL STUDY | 9 |
The Berlin Period | 17 |
The Greek Period | 53 |
TWELVENOTE TECHNIQUE | 79 |
The Sets and Setgroups | 87 |
Manipulation of the Sets | 99 |
Derivation Techniques | 115 |
CASE STUDIES | 177 |
Strict TwelveNote | 213 |
Towards a Free Dodecaphonic Technique | 275 |
Tonal Serialism | 319 |
Epilogue | 337 |
List of Sets | 343 |
Chronological Worklist | 379 |
Bibliography | 389 |
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accomp accompanied Allegro giusto Allegro moderato Andante Arnold Schoenberg Athens Conservatory bass Benakis Berlin bo bo built cadence cadential cello cello and piano chordal chords clarinet Coda composed Concertino contrapuntal Development dodecaphonic dyads Exposition Formal structure Greece Greek Dances harmonic structure hexachord interpolation large-scale LetAsk melodic Mitropoulos motivic Musiki Nikos Skalkottas Octet opening gesture bars orch palindromic Papaioannou phrase structure piano A/K Piano Suite piece pitch-class pitch-class collections pitch-class material pitch-class order played pno RH presentation Presto Recapitulation reordering rhythmic Rondo Schoenberg Second String Trio second subject group Second Symphonic Suite segms set structure set-class set-group sets S1 shown in Example Skalkottas's sonata form Sonatina for violin String Quartet structure and set T₁ Table ternary form tetrachord texture thematic idea Third String Quartet Thornley tonal transposed transposition trichords twelve-note sets twelve-note technique unordered variation varied repetition violin and piano Vln 1 Vln vln1