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ELLIOTT CARTER'S FLUTE MUSIC
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Elliott Carter and Robert Aitken in Villeneuve-lez-Avignon, France during the week of the world première of Scrivo in vento (July 20, 1991). |
List of Works
(in chronological order)
| title |
instrumentation |
year |
publisher |
| Woodwind Quintet |
flute, oboe, clarinet, horn, bassoon |
1948 |
AMP |
| Eight Etudes and a Fantasy |
flute, oboe, clarinet, bassoon |
1949 |
AMP |
| Sonata |
flute, oboe, cello, harpsichord |
1952 |
AMP |
| Canon for 3 |
three equal instrumental voices |
1971 |
AMP |
| Triple Duo |
flute, clarinet, violin, cello, piano, percussion |
1982 |
B&H |
| Esprit rude/esprit doux |
flute, clarinet |
1984 |
B&H |
| Canon for 4 |
flute, bass clarinet, violin, cello |
1984 |
B&H |
| Enchanted Preludes |
flute, cello |
1988 |
B&H |
| Scrivo in vento (recorded by Leonard Garrison on Looking Back) |
solo flute |
1991 |
B&H |
| Esprit rude/esprit doux II |
flute, clarinet, marimba |
1995 |
B&H |
| Flute Concerto |
flute and full orchestra |
2008 |
B&H |
| Nine by Five |
flute, oboe, clarinet, horn, bassoon |
2009 |
B&H |
| Trije glasbeniki |
flute, bass clarinet, and harp |
2011 |
B&H |
[AMP=Associated Music Publishers; B&H=Boosey & Hawkes]
Bibliography
[note: the best introduction to Carter's works is Schiff's book.]
Schirmer.com: under "Search Composers," click on C
Boosey & Hawkes: click on "Composers"
Classical Net - Carter
Bernard, Jonathan W. "The Evolution of Elliott Carter's Rhythmic Practice," Perspectives of New Music 26/2 (Summer 1988): 164-203.
________. "An Interview with Elliott Carter." Perspectives of New Music 28/2 (Summer 1990): 180-214.
________. "Spatial Sets in Recent Music of Elliott Carter," Music Analysis 2/1 (1983): 5-34.
Boretz, Benjamin. "Conversation with Elliott Carter," Perspectives of New Music 8/2 (Spring-Summer 1970): 1-22.
Carter, Elliott. The Writings of Elliott Carter: An American Composer Looks at Modern Music. Compiled, edited, and annotated by Else Stone and Kurt Stone. Bloomington, IN: Indiana University Press, 1977.
Derby, Richard, "Carter's Duo for Violin and Piano," Perspectives of New Music 20 (1981-82): 149-68.
Dufallo, Richard. "Elliott Carter" (interview). In Trackings. Oxford and New York: Oxford University Press, 1989, 269-85.
Edwards, Allen. Flawed Words and Stubborn Sounds: A Conversation with Elliott Carter. New York: W.W. Norton & Company, Inc., 1971.
Garrison, Leonard. "Elliott Carter's Scrivo in vento," The Flutist Quarterly XIX/4 (Summer 1994): 86-92, andXX/1 (Fall 1994): 75-80.
________. "Three Late Works by Elliott Carter: An Analysis and Flutist's Performance Guide." D.M. Document, Northwestern University, 1993.
Glock, William. Notes in Advance. Oxford and New York: Oxford University Press, 1991.
Harvey, David I.H. The Later Music of Elliott Carter. New York: Garland, 1989.
Mead, Andrew W. "Pitch Structure in Elliott Carter's String Quartet No. 3," Perspectives of New Music 22 (1983-84): 31-60.
Northcott, Bayan. "Elliott Carter," in The New Grove Twentieth-Century American Masters. New York: W.W. Norton & Company, Inc., 1988.
________. "Elliott Carter at 80," The Musical Times 129 (December 1988): 644-47.
Porter, Andrew. "Thought-Executing Fires." The New Yorker, 9 May 1983, 114.
________. "Riches in a Little Room." The New Yorker, 24 December 1984, 62-64.
________. "Preludes to Felicity," The New Yorker, 13 June 1988, 92-93.
________. “Music-Makers,” The New Yorker, 11 November 1991, 78-82.
Rosen, Charles. The Musical Languages of Elliott Carter. Washington: Music Division, Research Services, Library of Congress, 1984.
Schiff, David. "Carter's New Classicism," College Music Symposium 129 (1989): 115-22.
________. "Elliott Carter's Harvest Home," Tempo 167 (December 1988): 3-13.
________. The Music of Elliott Carter. 2nd Ed. Ithaca, NY: Cornell University Press, 1998.
Spencer, Patricia. "Regarding Scrivo in vento: A Conversation with Elliott Carter," The Flutist Quarterly XXXIII/4 (Summer 2008): 18-27.
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