Ferruccio Busoni as Architect of Sound

by Erinn Knyt

Ferruccio Busoni as Architect of Sound presents the composer as an innovator inspired not only by past musical traditions but also by a contemporary interest in experimentalism. In the twentieth-century, Busoni wrote pieces where sound radiates from different directions, created montage formal structures, and freely used all twelve pitches of the chromatic scale without avoiding consonances. This book reveals how he also applied his understanding...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0197625495
• ISBN13: 9780197625491
• Release Date: March 2023
• Publisher: Oxford University Press
• Length: 328 Pages
• Weight: 1.36 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.1" x 6.4" x 9.3"