Main entry:

Buck, David N., author.

Title & Author:

A musicology for landscape / David Nicholas Buck.

Publication:

London ; New York : Routledge, Taylor & Francis Group, 2017.

Description:

xx, 178 pages : illustrations, music ; 23 x 25 cm.

Series:

Design research in architecture

Notes:
Includes bibliographical references (pages 167-174) and index.
Machine generated contents note: 1.In an open field -- Reflective window -- Made by walking -- Everything under the sky -- The deception of the eye -- Time revealed, time concealed -- Uncertain precedents -- The time of music -- Creative transcription -- A Musicology for Landscape Architecture -- Notes -- 2.A Parallel History of Time in Music and Landscape -- Music -- Landscape -- Notes -- 3.Horizons -- Morton Feldman -- Space in the development of music notation -- Time represented by space -- This departing landscape -- `Realising' Feldman -- Sound and shaped time -- Transcribing Manhattan -- Sounds of the city -- Notation of space -- Notes -- 4.Clouds -- Gyorgy Ligeti -- Sound on paper -- Dimensions of time and space -- The view from the road -- A Cinematic Landscape -- Lines burnt in light -- The time of landscape -- A Proximity To Notation -- Notation of time -- Notes -- 5.Meadows -- Michael Finnissy -- Melty watercolours with Samuel Palmer gloom on top
Note continued: Landscape drawn through sound -- Pink Elephants -- Each bird is known by its song -- 655 seconds of antipodean landscape -- An iconography of new landscape notations -- 923 Above -- Early design notation -- Rousham's history of sound -- Five over eleven -- Ut pictura sonitu -- Concluding the picturesque -- Notation of material -- Notes -- 6.Busoni's garden -- Horizons, Clouds, Meadows -- A New Relationship To Notation -- Touching at a distance -- Sound plus vision -- Notation as landscape, landscape as notation -- Busoni's garden -- Notes.

Summary:

"Drawing conceptually and directly on music notation, this book investigates landscape architecture's inherent temporality. It argues that the rich history of notating time in music provides a critical model for this under-researched and under-theorised aspect of landscape architecture, while also ennobling sound in the sensory appreciation of landscape. It makes available to a wider landscape architecture and urban design audience the works of three influential composers - Morton Feldman, Gyorgy Ligeti and Michael Finnissy - presenting a critical evaluation of their work within music, as well as a means in which it might be used in design research. Each of the musical scores is juxtaposed with design representations by Kevin Appleyard, Bernard Tschumi and William Kent, before the author examines four landscape spaces through the development of new landscape architectural notations. In doing so, this work offers valuable insights into the methods used by landscape architects for the benefit of musicians, and by bringing together musical composition and landscape architecture through notation, it affords a focused and sensitive exploration of temporality and sound in both fields."-- Provided by publisher.

ISBN:

9781138694422 (hardback ; alkaline paper)
1138694428 (hardback ; alkaline paper)
9781472479389 (paperback ; alkaline paper)
1472479386 (paperback ; alkaline paper)
(ebook0
9781315208879
1315208873
9781351804950 (ePub ebook)
9781351804967 (PDF ebook)
9781351804943 (Mobipocket ebook)

Subject:

Music 20th century Philosophy and aesthetics.
Landscape architecture.
Musique 20e siècle Philosophie et esthétique.
Architecture du paysage.
Music Philosophy and aesthetics.
Landschaftsarchitektur
Musik

Added entries:

Design research in architecture.

Holdings:

Location: Library main 296875
Call No.: BIB 243193
Status: Available