Preface Marguerite Boland and John Link Part I. Overview: Music Early and Late: 1. The true significance of Elliott Carter's early works Jonathan Bernard 2. Elliott Carter's late music John Link Part II. Analysis and Aesthetics: 3. The search for order: Carter's late-modern thematicism Arnold Whittall 4. Ritornello form in Carter's Boston and ASKO concertos Marguerite Boland 5. 'The matter of human cooperation' in Carter's mature style John Roeder 6. Time management: rhythm as a formal determinant in certain works of Elliott Carter Andrew Mead 7. 'I try to write music that will appeal to an intelligent listener's ear': on Elliott Carter's string quartets Dorte Schmidt 8. Composition with intervals: melodic invention in Elliott Carter's recent concertos Stephen Heinemann Part III. Sketch Studies: 9. Left by the wayside: Elliott Carter's unfinished sonatina for oboe and harpsichord Felix Meyer 10. At the edge of creation: Elliott Carter's sketches in the Library of Congress Stephen Soderberg Part IV. Music and Text: 11. Three Illusions ... and maybe a fourth: a hermeneutic approach to Carter's music Max Noubel 12. Layers of meaning: expression and design in Carter's songs Brenda Ravenscroft 13. 'It's as if our voices made no sound': irony in episodes 10-15 of What Next? Guy Capuzzo 14. Words and music in The Defense of Corinth Annette van Dyck-Hemming Bibliography.
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