By: Joseph Straus , CUNY Graduate Center
Abstract of Video:
Elisabeth Lutyens was an important English composer of twelve-tone music. This short Bagatelle uses various partitioning schemes, especially involving trichords and dyads, as well as segmental invariance to provide motivic continuity.
Bibliography:
Joseph N. Straus, The Art of Post-Tonal Analysis: Thirty-Three Graphic Music Analyses (Oxford
University Press, 2022).
Meirion Harries and Susie Harries, A Pilgrim Soul: The Life and Work of Elisabeth Lutyens (Faber
and Faber, 1989).
About the Author:
Joseph Straus is Distinguished Professor of Music Theory at the CUNY Graduate Center. With a specialization in music since 1900, he has written numerous technical music-theoretical articles and scholarly monographs on a variety of topics in modernist music, including Remaking the Past: Musical Modernism and the Influence of the Tonal Tradition (Harvard University Press, 1990), The Music of Ruth Crawford Seeger (Cambridge University Press, 1995), Stravinsky's Late Music (Cambridge University Press, 2001), and Twelve-Tone Music in America (Cambridge University Press, 2009). He is also the author of Introduction to Post-Tonal Theory (4th ed., Norton, 2016).