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From: malik@delphi.DEC (Karl Malik  ZK1-1/D42 )
Newsgroups: net.music
Subject: Elliot Carter
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Date: Fri, 6-Apr-84 14:55:23 EST
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Posted: Fri Apr  6 14:55:23 1984
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Subj; Analysis of music of Elliot Carter?

	Has anyone out there studied the music of Eliott Carter?

	Attended a seminar, a theory class, etc.?

	Can anyone offer any suggestions as to the note-to-note
structure of his works? 

	I've been staring at his Brass Quintet. Like many of his
pieces, there is the usual stylistic independence of instruments
('personalities') and sections based on certain intervals or chords.

	But, for example, in a section based on sixths, I can find
no structure other than he's playing with sixths. Is that all (no
denigration intended) there is to it? Is his choice of pitches,
patterns, rhythms, etc. wholly intuitive?

	That's my guess, but I wonder if I'm missing something.

	Carter anecdote - Someone once asked Carter if his music
was 12-tone. He replied that he didn't know, since he had never
analyzed them from that perspective.

						- Karl
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