The Evolution of Elliott Carter's Rhythmic Practice

Abstract

ELLIOTT CARTER'S WORK over the past forty years has made him perhaps the most eminent living American composer, and certainly one of the most important composers of art music in the Western world. This span of time does not encompass his entire career to date-hardly surprising for a man who will soon celebrate his eightieth birthday-but in crucial respects deserves to be treated separately from the period which preceded it. Carter's earliest published works, dating from the late 1930s, are not juvenilia, but they are cast in a rather conventional mold; his music from this period has that neoclassical, Americanized sound which is readily recognizable as a feature of the style adopted then by many a former Boulanger student. In the late 1940s, however, Carter struck off in a startlingly new direction.

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