The first in-depth historical overview of how spectral music arose in France: the most influential European compositional movement of the past fifty years.
The first biography of the composer Gérard Grisey shows how the artist's sensuality and rigor came together to form the musical genre known as spectralism. The
The first in-depth historical overview of spectral music, which is widely regarded, alongside minimalism, as one of the two most influential compositional movem