Gérard Grisey and Spectral Music: Composition in the Information Age

Contents

• Introduction
• PART I. Grisey's Style
• 1. Grisey's early formation (1960–65)
• 2. Messiaen's class and new music in late 1960s Paris (1967–70)
• 3. Statistical serialism and Vagues, chemins, le souffle (1970–72)
• 4. On the threshold: D'eau et de pierre (1972)
• PART II. Spectral Music
• 5. Psychoacoustics and the new compositional framework (1973–74)
• 6. L'Itinéraire and synthetic music (1973–76)
• 7. New Dimensions (1976–78)
• 8. Spectral music and écriture liminale (1979–82)
• Conclusion.