TY - BOOK AU - Knockaert,Yves AU - Project Muse AU - Project Muse AU - McGregor,Richard TI - Wolfgang Rihm, a chiffre: the 1980s and beyond SN - 9789461662378 AV - ML410 .W654 2018 PY - 2017/// CY - Leuven, Belgium PB - Leuven University Press KW - Rihm, Wolfgang KW - Composers KW - Germany KW - 20th century KW - Electronic Books N1 - Issued as part of book collections on Project MUSE; 2; Part I. Style --; 1. Between classical and individual --; 2. Between modernism and postmodernism --; 3. Musical traces --; 4. Fine arts --; 5. Repetition --; 6. Nature and proportions --; 7. Studying proportions --; part II. Analysis --; 8. Integrated approach --; 9. Parameter characteristics --; 10. String quartet in the 1980s : string quartets nos. 5-8 --; 11. Group formation : Chiffre cycle --; 12. Chiffre cycle : harmony --; 13. Chiffre cycle : resonance --; 14. Chiffre cycle : cyclic elements --; 15. Chiffre cycle : symmetry --; 16. Chiffre cycle : proportions; 2; b N2 - Wolfgang Rihm (born Karlsruhe, 1952) is the most performed living German composer. With his personal, expressive, and versatile music, he became the most prominent representative of his generation. His individual approach to music was established in the 1980s and he continues to explore and enlarge his original concepts today. His 1980s work is at the core of this book, more specifically his instrumental music: the Chiffre cycle and the string quartets. Thinking about Rihm includes reflecting on his interest in philosophy, his relation to fine arts, his awareness of principles found in nature, and his references to important composers from the past. His music is embedded in the past and the actuality in modernism and postmodernism. Notwithstanding Rihm's generosity in essays and introductions to his works, many aspects of the 'inner sound' of his music stay an elusive, ungraspable 'chiffre': a challenge for the analyst UR - https://search.ebscohost.com/login.aspx?direct=true&scope=site&db=nlebk&db=nlabk&AN=1724607&site=eds-live&custid=s3260518 ER -