Harmony Book
by Elliott Carter
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Author: Elliott CarterEditor: Nicholas Hopkins; John F. Link
Edition: Paperback
Audio: English (Unknown); English (Original Language); English (Published)
Published: 2002-07
ISBN: 0825846900
Number of pages: 369
Publisher: Carl Fischer Music
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Book Review: A Giant's Tool
Summary: 4 Stars
'A Giant's Tool: Elliott Carter's Harmony Book
Edited by Nicholas Hopkins and John F. Link
Review by John de Clef Piñeiro
With the publication by Carl Fischer of Elliott Carter's Harmony Book, another remarkable document is now available for students and scholars of America's most continuously prolific composer. As one who has long been enthralled by the voluptuous complexity of Elliot Carter's aesthetic, it was with some trepidation that I undertook to examine an analytical tome that purports to be, in the words of one of its editors, "essentially a massive encyclopedia devoted to exploring harmonic relationships . . . . not truly a `harmony' book . . . . [that] was planned and developed to serve only as a tool for [Carter's] compositional work, rather than as a resource for public usage."
Assembled by Carter himself over a period of more than 20 years, the chordal material contained in the Harmony Book represents one creative mind's mapping of the harmonic musical universe for practical application, which, in turn, has been supplemented and expanded over time by the procedures developed in practical application. In a project lasting two-and-one-half years, editors Nicholas Hopkins and John F. Link have made numerous refinements and clarifications in nomenclature, taxonomy and organization to Carter's manuscript of the Harmony Book, which the editors note was never intended by Carter for publication.
It should also be noted that although this painstaking compilation and analysis of harmonic relationships can satisfy a Carter student's technical interest on one level, it certainly does not, and is clearly not intended to, readily sate the desire of a diverse music-listening public to comprehend the complicated creative process that has employed and continues to employ this comprehensive collection of harmonic materials as a tool. Indeed, after examining this truly scholarly achievement, one can conclude that it is possible to be fascinated by, and even love,Carter's music, without the benefit of this volume.
Nevertheless, it is without question that Messrs. Hopkins and Link have performed an invaluable editorial feat by providing reader-friendly levels of organization and illuminating essays and original interview material that will assure the enduring academic significance and landmark status of this work for years to come. As has already been the case with other scholars who have consulted and relied upon earlier manuscript versions of the Harmony Book for their own commentaries, both musicologists and musical theorists alike will find in this volume essential materia prima in formulating their own understanding and conclusions about the oeuvre of this towering American master of post-tonal chromaticism in musical composition.
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