Thomas Adès Studies

Edward Venn is Professor of Music at the University of Leeds. He is author of Thomas Adès: Asyla (2017) and The Music of Hugh Wood (2008) and has published many book chapters and journal articles on the analysis and interpretation of twentieth-century and contemporary music. He is editor of the journal Music Analysis. Philip Stoecker is Professor of Music at Hofstra University. His research focuses on post-tonal theory and analysis, and the music of Thomas Adès, George Perle, and the Second Viennese School. He has published numerous journal articles on the music of the twentieth century.

• 1. 'Chronically Volatile': Gesture in Adès's Living Toys and America: a Prophecy Philip Rupprecht; 2. Performing Adès Edward Venn with Henry Weekes; 3. 'Fountain of Youth', 'River of Meaning': Aesthetics of the Superficial in Powder Her Face Nicholas David Stevens; 4. 'Oh Brave New Caliban': Postcolonial Perspectives on Adès's The Tempest Jane Forner; 5. Chaconnes in the Music of Adès Philip Stoecker; 6. Closing the Circle? Tevot and the Question of Symphonic Resolution Richard Powell; 7. A World in Constant Motion: Adès's in Seven Days Amy Bauer; 8. Musique Automatique? Adèsian Automata and the Logic of Disjuncture Brian Moseley; 9. Narrating the Dance of Death: Morality and Social Critique in Adès's Totentanz Scott Lee; 10. Hearing Voices in Adès's Operas Emma Gallon; 11. The Rich Logic of Adès's the Exterminating Angel and The Tempest John Roeder; 12. Sonic Allegory in Adès's the Exterminating Angel Yayoi Uno Everett; Index.

'the most comprehensive analytical account to date on the music of this living composer … a wonderfully integrated volume discussing all of the composer's major works …' Society for Music Theory Awards Committee