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Elliott Carter: A Guide to Research - Addenda | Errata

Bibliography | Compositions | Discography

631b. Capuzzo, Guy. Review of The Music of Elliott Carter, by David Schiff. Intégral 13 (1999): 201-15.

A largely negative review that takes issue with a number of Schiff's comments on specific passages to illustrate the reviewer's contention that Schiff's analyses are inconsistant and imprecise.
675a. Harvey, David. [Review of 1984 Glasgow Musica Nova Festival] Tempo 151 (1984).
A report on the festival covering Carter's residency and performances of his compositions (including the Piano Concerto and Night Fantasies with Ursula Oppens).
678a. Heinemann, Stephen. "The American Premiere of Elliott Carter's Clarinet Concerto." The Clarinet December, 1998: 34-40.
An unusually detailed report that covers the origins of Carter's composition, and includes a first hand account of the rehearsals for its American premiere, drawing on interviews with most of the participants.
678b. Heinemann, Stephen. "Melodic Practice in Elliott Carter's Clarinet Concerto." Mitteilungen der Paul Sacher Stiftung 14 (April, 2001): 19-22.
A brief summary of Carter's melodic technique in the Clarinet Concerto. Heinemann discusses the fixed repertoire of intervals played by the clarinet (ics 1, 2, 4, 7, and 9 and their compounds), and their derivation from a twelve-note referential collection Carter, in his sketches, labels "clarinet chord" (D3, F#3, Eb4, F4, A4, C5, C#5, E5, G#5, A#5, G6, B6).
725a. Northcott, Bayan. "Elliott Carter." In The New Grove Dictionary of Music and Musicians. 20 vols. Edited by Stanley Sadie. London: Macmillan, 1980. Revised version published in The New Grove Dictionary of American Music, edited by H. Wiley Hitchcock and Stanley Sadie (London: Macmillan, 1986), 364-372. Also published in The New Grove Twentieth-Century American Masters (London: Macmillan, 1987; New York: Norton, 1988), 215-240.

A substantial and useful summary of Carter's life and works.
727a. Noubel, Max. Elliott Carter ou le temps fertile. Geneva: Contrechamps editions, 2000.
A significant new publication covering Carter's entire oeuvre.

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