Xenakis, Iannis. (1922 - 2001)

Musiques formelles: nouveaux principes formels de composition musicale - INSCRIBED PRESENTATION COPY

Paris: Special issue of La Revue musicale, nos. 253–254; Editions Richard-Massé. 1963. First Edition. Inscribed first edition of the groundbreaking "Formalized Music: Thought and Mathematics in Music," in which composer, architect, and engineer Iannis Xenakis explains his motivation, philosophy, and technique for composing music with stochastic mathematical functions.


Softover. 4to. 232 pp. A pristine copy with unopened pages, signed and inscribed on the front free endpage by the composer in the year of the publication to the important music critic, Alan Rich (1924 - 2010). (10850)


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