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Book Review| December 01 2016 Review: Claude Vivier: A Composer's Life, by Bob Gilmore Claude Vivier: A Composer's Life, by Bob Gilmore. Eastman Studies in Music. Rochester, NY: University of Rochester Press; Woodbridge, UK: Boydell & Brewer, 2014. xiv, 295 pp. Bryan Christian Bryan Christian BRYAN CHRISTIAN is an Instructor of Music at the University of Northern Colorado. His research focuses on spectral music and the works of Quebecois post-spectral composer Claude Vivier. His publications have appeared in Music Theory Online and Tempo, and he is the editor of the Oxford Handbook of Spectral Music (forthcoming). Search for other works by this author on: This Site PubMed Google Scholar Journal of the American Musicological Society (2016) 69 (3): 848–853. https://doi.org/10.1525/jams.2016.69.3.848 Views Icon Views Article contents Figures & tables Video Audio Supplementary Data Peer Review Share Icon Share Facebook Twitter LinkedIn MailTo Tools Icon Tools Get Permissions Cite Icon Cite Search Site Citation Bryan Christian; Review: Claude Vivier: A Composer's Life, by Bob Gilmore. Journal of the American Musicological Society 1 December 2016; 69 (3): 848–853. doi: https://doi.org/10.1525/jams.2016.69.3.848 Download citation file: Ris (Zotero) Reference Manager EasyBib Bookends Mendeley Papers EndNote RefWorks BibTex toolbar search Search Dropdown Menu toolbar search search input Search input auto suggest filter your search All ContentJournal of the American Musicological Society Search Published in 2014, the late Bob Gilmore's Claude Vivier: A Composer's Life is the first significant biographical account of Claude Vivier to have appeared since the composer's murder in 1983. Based in Montreal for most of his life, Vivier (1948–83) was a Canadian composer whose advocates have posthumously proclaimed him one of Canada's greatest composers. His music was influenced by travels to Europe for formal studies and to Asia for informal sojourns. Despite composing in a wide range of styles, Vivier is generally known for his late period, which was considerably indebted to the spectral techniques of Gérard Grisey and Tristan Murail. Other studies have dealt with Vivier's biography obliquely (these include a journal issue largely dedicated to his collected writings and a chronology of his works),1 but most offer only a cursory introduction to his life. Gilmore's book is a meticulously researched and beautifully written work that guides... You do not currently have access to this content.
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