Heft 04 / Oktober 2018

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In Search of Boulez: A Review of Martin Zenck’s book. This review considers Martin Zenck’s extended examination of the work of Pierre Boulez. Zenck’s approach seeks to correct earlier clichéd views of the composer as an extreme rationalist by relating his music to gesture, dance and theatre, and also by supplementing traditional score analysis with a phenomenological description of listening experience. These are productive directions for research, but the book suffers from many structural problems, including repetitiveness and frequently diffuse writing, and has not been carefully proofread, which impedes its effectiveness.

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