It's news to me that Barrque wrote a book. He seems to have had enough difficulty completing his music. There is, of course Andre Hodeir's 'Since Debussy' which deals at length with Barraque and indeed may have introduced him to English readers. I hadn't heard of him before Roger Woodward's EMI recording of the Sonata.
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He certainly did. It was published by Editions du Seuil in 1962 and may well still be in print - my copy is a 1994 edition. In answer to Mandryka: no, it isn't an academic book for scholars only - it's full of photos, reproduction of manuscript pages, relevant works of visual art and the like. It contains some music examples but is a general book about the composer's "life and works" rather than an analytical thesis.Originally posted by smittims View PostComment
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Thanks, Richard. That's useful.Comment
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Listen to the way the rhythm in Les fées sont d'exquises danseuses - without repeated patterns of strong and weak beats, in constant evolution, especially towards the end, in the last minute or so.
And to the piano solo of Rihm's Chiffre V
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