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Robert Carl (born July 12, 1954 in Bethesda, Maryland) is an American composer who currently resides in Hartford, Connecticut, where he is chair of the composition department at the Hartt School, University of Hartford.〔(【引用サイトリンク】title=Robert Carl : Chair of Composition Department, Professor of Composition and Theory )〕 ==Music== Carl studied with Jonathan Kramer, George Rochberg, Ralph Shapey, and Iannis Xenakis. From each respectively, the composer has commented that he feels he learned about time, history, counterpoint/phrasing, and form.〔(【引用サイトリンク】title=Robert Carl: The Time Keeper )〕 His music finds its roots in the spirit of eclectic juxtapositions, transcendentalism, and experiment embodied in the output of Charles Ives and other American "ultramodernists", including Carl Ruggles.〔Carl, Robert. "Macro-Structure in Carl Ruggles's Sun-Treader: A Fearful Symmetry", Sonus, Vol.15, No.2 Spring 1995〕 Carl’s music until 1997 tends to explore different styles, and to create unusual syntheses thereof. A history major as an undergraduate at Yale University, he has felt that the musical past is a fertile source to be manipulated for new expressive purposes. ''Duke Meets Mort'' (1992) is a saxophone quartet that interprets the harmonic changes of Duke Ellington’s ''Mood Indigo'' in the voice of Morton Feldman. ''Time/Memory/Shadow'' (1988) is a double trio (piano quintet and harp) based on a march written in the composer’s adolescence, which is slowly “excavated” in the course of the piece, and only revealed at the end. From 1998 on, starting with ''Open'' for string trio, Carl’s music has become less referential. Since 2001 he has developed a technique of basing his harmonies on the overtone series, with common partials above different fundamentals serving as pivots for progressions and modulations. In ''American Music in the Twentieth Century'', critic Kyle Gann described Carl's more recent style: "(he) has settled into a more serene, meditative idiom, but still with a dissonant edge."〔Gann, Kyle. ''American Music in the Twentieth Century''. New York: Schirmer Books, 1997. Pg. 250.〕 More recent works that represent this approach include ''The Wind’s Trace Rests on Leaves and Waves'' (2005) for string quintet (premiered by the Miami String Quartet and Robert Black), ''Marfantasie'' (2004) for electric guitar and large ensemble, ''Shake the Tree'' for piano four-hands (2005), ''A Musical Enquiry Into the Sublime and Beautiful'' (2006–07) for chamber orchestra, La Ville Engloutie (2007) for wind ensemble, Fourth Symphony (2008), and Piano Quintet "Search" (2012). Carl also frequently collaborates with sculptor Karen McCoy, creating sound components of installation art works, including pieces for the Sculpture Key Festivals of 2009 and 2010,〔(【引用サイトリンク】title=from the archives )〕 and the 2013 Wintergreen Festival. Carl's music has been released by Innova Recordings, New World Records, and Centaur Records, among others. 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「Robert Carl」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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