Jonathan Dean Harvey (3 May 1939 – 4 December 2012)[1][2] was a British composer. He held teaching positions at universities and music conservatories in Europe and the United States.

Life

Harvey was born in Sutton Coldfield, and studied at St John's College, Cambridge, eventually obtaining a PhD.[1] He also took private lessons with Erwin Stein and Hans Keller on the advice of Benjamin Britten.[1] In 1969, he took up a Harkness Fellowship at Princeton University.[1] In the 1980s, Harvey produced music at IRCAM after receiving an invitation from Pierre Boulez to work there.[1]

At IRCAM, Harvey produced works such as Speakings, a composition for large orchestra and electronics, in collaboration with sound artist and composer Gilbert Nouno and researchers Arshia Cont and Grégoire Carpentier. The concept of the piece was to "make an orchestra speak".[3] IRCAM is known for speech analysis and in this piece, special technology was developed to allow the analysis of speech to be realized in an orchestral context, using complex algorithms which can process multiple combinations possible in an orchestra setting. The program Orchidée computed such analyses and provided orchestrations for the composer.[citation needed]

From 2005 to 2008, Harvey held the post of Composer in Association with the BBC Scottish Symphony Orchestra.[4]

In 2009, he was Composer in Residence at the Huddersfield Contemporary Music Festival.[5] He died, aged 73, in Lewes, from motor neurone disease.[6]

Speakings received six votes in a 2017 Classic Voice poll of the greatest works of art music since 2000.[7] In 2019, writers for The Guardian ranked Harvey's String Quartet No. 4 the eighth greatest work of classical music in the same period.[8]

Writings

Selected works

References

  1. ^ a b c d e "Jonathan Harvey", Faber Music
  2. ^ Richard Morrison (5 December 2012). "British Composer Jonathan Harvey Dies". The Times. Retrieved 5 December 2012.
  3. ^ Bob Shingleton (5 September 2010). "Chance Music with Jonathan Harvey". Archived from the original on 24 July 2011. Retrieved 27 November 2010.
  4. ^ Jonathan Harvey, composer's biography
  5. ^ Composer in Residence Jonathan Harvey in conversation Archived 14 November 2009 at the Wayback Machine, Huddersfield Contemporary Music Festival
  6. ^ Hewett, Ivan (5 December 2012). Jonathan Harvey obituary. The Guardian.
  7. ^ "A music referendum". Ricordi. Retrieved 2 December 2019.
  8. ^ Clements, Andrew; Maddocks, Fiona; Lewis, John; Molleson, Kate; Service, Tom; Jeal, Erica; Ashley, Tim (12 September 2019). "The best classical music works of the 21st century". The Guardian. Retrieved 12 June 2020.
  9. ^ I love the Lord on YouTube, Choir of Royal Holloway, 2014
  10. ^ "I love the Lord", performances, recordings, classicalarchives.com
  11. ^ See the information on the site of the digital concert hall. Retrieved 24 October 2023.
  12. ^ See Programme note at Faber Music. Retrieved 24 October 2023.

Further reading

  • Alcorn, P. M. (1992). Perspectives of Electroacoustic Music: A Critical Study of the Electroacoustic Music of Jonathan Harvey, Denis Smalley and Trevor Wishart. Ph.D. diss. Durham: University of Durham.
  • Beaumont, Adrian (1998). "Expectation and Interpretation in the Reception of New Music: A Case Study". In Composition—Performance—Reception: Studies in the Creative Process, edited by Wyndham Thomas, 93–104. Aldershot: Ashgate. ISBN 1-85928-325-X.
  • Bossis, Bruno (2017). "Les premiers contacts de Jonathan Harvey avec la technologie et la Set Theory, vers une pensée musicale à la fois structuraliste et spiritualiste." Nuove Musiche no. 3: 29–44.
  • Bossis, Bruno (2004). "Mortuos plango, vivos voco de Jonathan Harvey ou le miroir de la spiritualité". Musurgia: Analyse et pratique musicales 11, nos. 1–2 (Images de la Voix): 119–144.
  • Bowling, Irene Ruth (1989). "British Piano Music Since 1945: A Selected Survey". DMA diss. Seattle: University of Washington.
  • Brech, Martha (1993). Analyse elektroakustischer Musik mit Hilfe von Sonagrammen. Europäische Hochschulschriften XXXVI: Musikwissenschaft, Nr. 118. Frankfurt am Main: Peter Lang. ISBN 3-631-47427-X.
  • Brech, Martha (1999). "Im Spannungsfeld zwischen Archaik und Moderne: Riten im Electronic Listening und der Elektroakustischen Musik". In Musik und Ritual: Fünf Kongreßbeiträge, zwei freie Beiträge und ein Seminarbericht, edited by Barbara Barthelmes and Helga de la Motte-Haber, 89–109. Veröffentlichungen des Instituts für Neue Musik und Musikerziehung Darmstadt, no. 39. Mainz: Schott. ISBN 978-3-7957-1779-7.
  • Brown, David (1968). "Jonathan Harvey". The Musical Times 109, no. 1507 (September) 808–810.
  • Denut, Éric (2002). "Chemins de traverse entre l'un et le multiple: Une introduction à l'œuvre de Jonathan Harvey". Musica falsa: Musique, art, philosophie, no. 16 (Fall): 36–39.
  • Donin, Nicolas (2006). "Spatialization as a Compositional Tool and Individual Access to Music in the Future". Circuit: Musiques contemporaines 16, no. 3: 75–81.
  • Felici, Candida (2017). "Spectral thinking as spiritual search ...und electronics ist auch dabei: Jonathan Harvey's Tombeau de Messiaen, String Quartet No. 4 and Speakings." Nuove Musiche no. 3: 119–153.
  • Foreman, Ronald Lewis Edmund (ed.) (1975). British Music Now: A Guide to the Work of Younger Composers. London: Elek.
  • Fuchs, Jörn Florian (2007). "Buddhistische Träume aus Licht und Elektronik: Jonathan Harveys Wagner Dream am Grand Théâtre de Luxembourg uraufgeführt (6. Juni 2007)". Wagnerspectrum 3, no. 2:185–186.
  • Γεωργάκη, Αναστασία [Geōrgakī, Anastasia] (2004). "Η μεταφυσική διάσταση της συνθετικής τραγουδιστής φωνής στο έργο Mortuos Plango-Vivos Voco (J. Harvey, 1980)" [The Metaphysical Dimension of the Synthetic Singing Voice in the Work Mortuos plango, vivos voco (J. Harvey, 1980)]. Polyfōnia, no. 4 (Spring): 57–92.
  • Griffiths, Paul (1984). "Three Works by Jonathan Harvey: The Electronic Mirror". Contemporary Music Review 1, no. 1 (Musical Thought at IRCAM) 87–109.
  • Griffiths, Paul (1985). New Sounds, New Personalities: British Composers of the 1980s in Conversation with Paul Griffiths. London: Faber and Faber. ISBN 0-571-10061-9.
  • Groot, Rokus de (2002). "De klank van het oosten: Transformaties in de westerse klassieke muziek onder invloed van concepten over het oosten—Klank en spiritualiteit". Krisis: Tijdschrift voor empirische filosofie 3, no. 4:96–105.
  • Halász, Péter (1994). "Beszélgetés Jonathan Harvey angol zeneszerzővel" [Interview with the English Composer Jonathan Harvey]. Muzsika 37, no. 9 (September): 33–36.
  • Jenkins, Matthew (2006). "A Search for Emptiness: An Interview with Jonathan Harvey". Perspectives of New Music 44, no. 2 (Summer): 220–231.
  • Johnson, Julian M. (2003a). "Precarious Rapture: The Recent Music of Jonathan Harvey". In Aspects of British Music of the 1990s, edited by Peter O'Hagan, 63–84. Burlington, Vermont: Ashgate. ISBN 0-7546-3041-2.
  • Johnson, Julian M. (2003b). "A [sic] Interview with Jonathan Harvey". In Aspects of British Music of the 1990s, edited by Peter O'Hagan, 119–129. Burlington, Vermont: Ashgate. ISBN 0-7546-3041-2.
  • Joos, Maxime (2002). "'La cloche et la vague': Introduction à la musique spectrale—Tristan Murail et Jonathan Harvey". Musica falsa: Musique, art, philosophie, no. 16 (Fall): 30–31.
  • Josipovici, Gabriel (1989). "Music and Literary Form". Contemporary Music Review 5 (Music and Text): 65–75.
  • Kennedy, Michael (2006), The Oxford Dictionary of Music, 985 pages, ISBN 0-19-861459-4
  • Palmer, John (1998a). "Jonathan Harvey's Inquest of Love: The Redemptive Spirit of Art". 20th-Century Music 5, no. 5 (May): 8–11.
  • Palmer, John (1998b). "A Conversation with Jonathan Harvey". 20th-Century Music 5, no. 8 (August): 1–8.
  • Palmer, John (1998c). "An Introduction to Jonathan Harvey's Bhakti". 20th-Century Music 5, no. 11 (November): 6–15.
  • Palmer, John (1998d). "Structural Strategies and Pitch Gestalt in Jonathan Harvey's Bhakti". 20th-Century Music 5, no. 12 (December): 4–24.
  • Palmer, John (2001). Jonathan Harvey's Bhakti for Chamber Ensemble and Electronics: Serialism, Electronics, and Spirituality. Studies in the History and Interpretation of Music 77. Lewiston, New York : Edwin Mellen Press. ISBN 0-7734-7436-6.
  • Pavia, Marcela (2017). "Tombeau de Messiaen, ovvero del dualismo armonia/timbro." Nuove Musiche no. 3: 83–117.
  • Samson, Jim (1981). "Nowe tendencje w angielskiej muzyce orkiestrowej" [New Trends in British Orchestral Music]. Muzyka: Kwartalnik poświęcony historii i teorii muzyki 26, no. 2:3–21.
  • Seo, Juri (2013). Jonathan Harvey's String Quartets. DMA diss. University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign.
  • Seo, Juri (2017). "Jonathan Harvey's String Quartets Nos. 1 and 2." Nuove Musiche no. 3: 45–81.
  • Smalley, Denis (1993). "Defining Transformations". Interface: Journal of New Music Research 22, no. 4 (November): 279–300.
  • Smith, Pamela (1989). "Towards the Spiritual: The Electroacoustic Music of Jonathan Harvey". Contact, no. 34 (Fall): 11–16.
  • Solomos, Makis (1998). "L'identité du son: Notes croisées sur Jonathan Harvey et Gérard Grisey". Résonance: Semestriel d'information musicale, no. 13 (March): 12–15.
  • Sykes, Claire (2003). "Spiritual Spectralism: The Music of Jonathan Harvey". Musicworks: Explorations in Sound, no. 87 (Fall): 30–37.
  • Thompson, Daniel N. (1999). "Beyond Duality: Stasis, Silence, and Vertical Listening". Current Musicology, nos. 67–68 (Fall–Winter): 487–517.
  • Vandenheede, Jan (1992). "Jonathan Harvey's Ritual Melodies". Interface: Journal of New Music Research 21, no. 2) 149–183.
  • Whittall, Arnold (1999). Jonathan Harvey. London: Faber. ISBN 0-571-19581-4. French edition, as Jonathan Harvey, translated by Peter Szendy, and Éric De Visscher. Paris: L'Harmattan, 2000. ISBN 2-7384-8860-9.
  • Whittall, Arnold (2001). "Harvey, Jonathan (Dean)". The New Grove Dictionary of Music and Musicians, 2nd edition, edited by Stanley Sadie and John Tyrrell. London: Macmillan.
  • Whittall, Arnold (2017). "The Essence of Jonathan Harvery." Nuove Musiche no. 3: 13–27.
  • Winter, John (1985). "Jonathan Harvey's Church Music". Composer, no. 84 (Spring): 16–21.

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