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	Classical Net Article - Charles Rosen on Elliott Carter
		Carter never succumbed totally to the influence of Ives, and he was never even briefly to try serial composition.
		Carter constructed what he was later to call "an auditory scenario for the players to act out with their instruments."
		Carter was the first American composer outside the field of popular music to achieve his reputation not as a minor follower of a European school or as a provincial voice exploiting a purely native material.
	www.classical.net /music/comp.lst/articles/carter/rosen.html (752 words)

	Encyclopedia: Elliot Carter
		Carter was born in New York, New York.
		Carter's earlier works are influenced by Stravinsky and Hindemith, and are mainly neoclassical in aesthetic.
		While Carter seems to set up rigorous systems for deriving the pitch content of a piece, he deviates from them on occasion: not every note can be explained with the same rigor as can be done, for example, in Webern.
	www.nationmaster.com /encyclopedia/Elliot-Carter (615 words)

	Carter (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-06)
		Carter: Of course I used to be very interested in jazz and pianists like Fats Waller and others and one of the things that struck me always about this was the music of that time was based on a regular beat that a drummer played or the double bass.
		Carter: Well, to tell the honest truth I try very hard to--I can't say I try very hard, but what I really want to do is to have something in the piece, in the new piece, that challenges me in a way that I haven't been challenged before.
		Carter: Well, you know, I suppose I have tone painting in a sense, and certainly in the symphony for three orchestras the picture of New York harbor and the gull flying over it suggested the very long trumpet solo which gradually fades and descends.
	www.dead.net /cavenweb/philzone/carter.html (4836 words)

	Classic construction (Metro Times Detroit) (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-06)
		Elliot Carter is the gray eminence of the classical avant-garde, 96 years old and still percolating.
		So Carter’s difficult, not in the sense that he’s impenetrable but in the sense that if you don’t have a context to put him in (he’s an end-of-the-line classical composer), then extra effort is required.
		Carter has said that the varying tonalities and shifting rhythms of his compositions are a musical corollary to the way people generally receive stimulus from their surroundings, how we absorb two or more contrasting things at once, complete with interruptions.
	www.metrotimes.com /editorial/story.asp?id=7793 (727 words)

	Elliott Carter
		Carter for the Gold Medal of the National Institute of Arts and Letters for Eminence in Music in 1971.
		Carter was the subject of recent documentaries by London Weekend Television and the Netherlands Broadcasting Corporation.
		Carter was first honored by the Pulitzer committee in 1960 for his daring string quartet compositions, and was thereafter hailed by Stravinsky for his Double Concerto (1961) and his Piano Concerto (1967), both of which Stravinsky dubbed "masterpieces." His second Pulitzer Prize came in 1973 for String Quartet #3.
	sai-national.org /phil/composers/ecarter.html (252 words)

	CD Review
		For Carter's much celebrated 90th birthday this has now actually happened and I couldn't be more delighted with the result.
		The earlier Carter performances were the starting point and this very capable choir has now added the rest, including some unpublished material.
		Carter himself explains that one of the reasons he wrote nothing for the voice from 1947 to 1975 - which is extraordinary - was that most of the music recorded here was performed so badly.
	www.mvdaily.com /articles/1999/03/carter.htm (421 words)

	Carter - Various Media - The Saatchi Gallery
		Carter’s work reflects a fascination and unease with the human body as a metaphor for an anxiety of persona, the body being an outward projection and defining image of self.
		Carter’s Polaroids pose as casual snapshots, a series of ‘accidental’ photographs missing their target subject to capture only a pair of disembodied hands, a hint of human presence amidst various arrangements of inanimate objects.
		In Polariod (2006 #5) and Polaroid (2006 #6) Carter’s artificial hands are accompanied by the accoutrements of the living: comb, glass of water, houseplant, each lending a plausible authenticity to the dummy limbs.
	www.saatchi-gallery.co.uk /artists/carter.htm (1626 words)

	Elliott Carter
		Carter for the Gold Medal of the National Institute of Arts and Letters for Eminence in Music in 1971.
		Carter was the subject of recent documentaries by London Weekend Television and the Netherlands Broadcasting Corporation.
		Carter was first honored by the Pulitzer committee in 1960 for his daring string quartet compositions, and was thereafter hailed by Stravinsky for his Double Concerto (1961) and his Piano Concerto (1967), both of which Stravinsky dubbed "masterpieces." His second Pulitzer Prize came in 1973 for String Quartet #3.
	www.sai-national.org /phil/composers/ecarter.html (252 words)

	COON-KUHN - STEADMAN Connections
		Edward Elliot CARTER was born in 1950 in Erie, Erie County, Pennsylvania.
		Erin CARTER was born in 1992 in Erie, Erie County, Pennsylvania.
		Stephen CARTER was born in 1981 in Erie, Erie County, Pennsylvania.
	fp.enter.net /~mkuhn/b70.htm (1119 words)

	BBC - Radio 3 - Elliot Carter Interview
		Elliot Carter is America's leading composer, though as he insists, he is a composer who happens to be American.
		Born in 1908 Carter has been increasingly recognised as a master of closely worked, disciplined, often passionate, sometimes violent music which he is now composing with a growing facility.
		Elliot Carter, some 50 years ago in an essay you wrote, you said that everything is a problem for the composer.
	www.bbc.co.uk /radio3/johntusainterview/carter_transcript.shtml (5260 words)

	Elliott Carter - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		His music after 1950 is typically atonal and rhythmically complex, indicated by the invention of the term metric modulation to describe the frequent, precise tempo changes found in his work.
		MusicMavericks.PublicRadio.org: An interview with Elliot Carter by Alan Baker, Minnesota Public Radio, July 2002
		The String Quartets of Elliott Carter Booklet note for recording by the Arditti Quartet of Quartets 1-4 and Elegy (1988 ETCETERA KTC 1065/1066), by David Harvey
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Elliott_Carter (695 words)

	CNM 2001-02 Concert Information, School of Music, The University of Iowa
		Carter wrote his Riconoscenza per Goffredo Petrassi to celebrate the Italian master's 80th birthday, and the work was first performed in 15 June 1984, at the Festival de Pontino in Sermoneta by G. Monch.
		Carter's growth as a composer was gradual but since 1950, the year of his String Quartet No. 1, his reputation and influence have grown enormously.
		Carter's trademark is the differentiation of instruments and sections, giving each player or each group a characteristic mode of music speech generating a complex polyphony of rhythm and tempo.
	www.uiowa.edu /~cnm/36.011003.html (2451 words)

	Elliot Carter's Harmony Book
		I have long been an enthusiast and performer of Carter's music, in particular the first four string quartets, and have worked with the composer on a few occasions, and this book appeared to be a simple manual revealing the composer's methods and intentions.
		Carter was a visiting professor at Cornell University in 1967, and he filled in his time, frequently while commuting by train from New York, by writing this book.
		Carter spent some time with the craggy Ives while he was a high school student at Horace Mann School in New York in the 1920's, and Ives wrote him a letter of recommendation to Harvard College.
	www.soundpostonline.com /archive/fall2002/page11.htm (1330 words)

	Carter Interview
		Carter: I feel that the idea that one can have a flash of inspiration for a piece is not really what happens to me. I do get striking moments only when I have begun to write a piece and I am wondering what I'll do next.
		Carter: I'm not against tonal music -- it's just that I don't think it's possible to write music in the traditional style which is as good as the music of the past.
		Carter: Oh yes, but that's a bit of a stretch -- he actually said something like, 'Finally, a masterpiece that comes from America,' which to me is a very different statement.
	www.edwebproject.org /carter.html (3534 words)

	GateWorld - Stargate SG-1 Season Five: 'Proving Ground' (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-06)
		Elliot is a fine Air Force Academy graduate, but being in the SGC takes an extra something.
		Elliot and the others see her receive a major electrical shock, and fall unconscious.
		It was yet another test, and Elliot demonstrated that he was willing to risk his life rather than leaving one of his people behind.
	www.gateworld.net /sg1/s5/513.shtml (1795 words)

	Stargate SG-1 Character Study (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-06)
		At her desk, she pulled up a layout of the lower floors of the base and showed her where the guest quarters were located, then phoned the officer on duty to let her know that Star was on the way.
		She had it covered with a camouflage bandana, but it could still be seen peeking out from beneath the cloth at the base of her neck.
		Elliot had taken a seat inside a jeep parked near the warehouse.
	www.rednotebooks.com /fiction/fanfic/stargate/study1.htm (8728 words)

	Elliot Carter: What Next? \| Classical Music Online
		This ECM disc was released to coincide with Carter's recent 95th birthday.
		Of late the American composer Elliott Carter (95 this December) has been increasingly prolific, and has matched this newfound rate of production with a style that has matched his highly dramatic, well-contrasted and hyper-complex atonal style with a newfound classical grace and lightness.
		Carter wrote this 40-minute one-act opera in 1998, just before he turned 90.
	www.onlineclassical.com /ItemId/B000094HLB (258 words)

	Carter, Elliott Cook Music Web Links (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-06)
		Elliot Cook Carter - Karadar dictionary entry with life, essential works, and photo gallery, with links to related composers and texts of selected songs.
		Carter, Elliott Cook - Musical biography showing education and influences, evolution of style, and representative works with summary list of compositions from the Grove Concise Dictionary of Music entry at WQXR radio.
		They contradict their parents, gobble their food, and tyrannize their teachers." (Socrates) Carter, Elliott Cook For one human being to love another: that is perhaps the most difficult of our tasks; the ultimate, the last test and proof, the work for which all other work is but preparation.
	www.searchmusicnetwork.com /Composition_Composers_C_Carter,_Elliott_Cook.html (1589 words)

	Elliot Carter - CompositionToday.com
		Like his early mentor Ives, Carter’s music evokes a very American sense of place, both the wide-open horizons of its deserts and plains, and the dense cityscapes of its great metropolises, whose relentless energy and colliding narratives have done so much to shape — subliminally at least — Carter’s rich and dynamic style.
		Carter came late to composition, despite early encouragement from Charles Ives, who sold insurance to Carter’s parents until they discovered the subversive influence he was exercising on their son.
		Carter first studied English and mathematics at Harvard before, in the face of determined parental opposition, going to Paris to study with the celebrated teacher and Stravinsky disciple Nadia Boulanger.
	www.compositiontoday.com /articles/carter.asp (490 words)

	Interview: Andrew Clements meets composer Elliot Carter \| \| Guardian Unlimited Arts
		He may be the greatest composer the US has produced since Ives, but Carter's outlook has always been at least as much European as it is American, and it was audiences on this side of the Atlantic who first recognised the importance of his knotty, demanding music.
		Carter is a New Yorker: he was born there in 1908, and the city has remained his home throughout his life; he lives now in an apartment on the edge of Greenwich Village.
		Carter's music is still more highly regarded across Europe than in the US, yet he has always been in an important sense an American composer.
	arts.guardian.co.uk /features/story/0,11710,1676887,00.html (994 words)

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		Rhythmic procedures in the compositions of Olivier Messiaen, Boris Blacher, and Elliott Carter.
		Kies, Christopher R. A discussion of the harmonic organization in the first movement of Elliot Carter's Sonata for violoncello and piano in light of certain developments in 19th and early 20th century music.
		Certain aspects of Elliott Carter's musical language as exemplified by his: Sonata for cello and piano (1948) and Eight etudes and a fantasy for woodwind quartet (1950).
	www.uncg.edu /mus/courses/msbrewst/amr/contents/cardis.txt (809 words)

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		Everyone seemed to appreciate the fact that Carter's family of quartets is a lattice of interrelated ideas and gestures that can only be fully revealed when played as a group.
		The idea of simultaneities of sound is already fully formed in the Quartet No. 1, his breakthrough work, with its astonishing sense of evolving motion he has called "metric modulation." The four string players are like actors in a serious drama, each with his or her own musical profile.
		Carter achieves an ever greater rigor and complexity in his Second (1959) and Third (1971) quartets, in which different strands of contrasting material are developed at the same time.
	www.pacificaquartet.com /tribune.html (504 words)

	Spartanburg SC \| GoUpstate.com \| Spartanburg Herald-Journal
		Carter's earlier works are influenced by Stravinsky and Hindemith, and are mainly neoclassical in aesthetic.
		While Carter seems to set up rigorous systems for deriving the pitch content of a piece, he deviates from them on occasion: not every note can be explained with the same rigor as can be done, for example, in Webern.
		Carter's large mature works are usually built around gigantic polyrhythms, and he attempts to expand the notion of counterpoint to encompass simultaneous different characters, even entire movements, rather than just individual lines.
	www.goupstate.com /apps/pbcs.dll/section?category=NEWS&template=wiki&text=Elliot_Carter (832 words)

	listen.: Birthday
		Those who believe that Modernism is well and truly dead and buried Carter's continuing creativity (as well as the growing number of performances and recordings) is a reminder that the funeral may well have been premature.
		Finally, though, it was and is the rigor and poetry of Carter’s expression that has kept him at the center of my musical life.
		Among the Carter works have meant the most to me over the years are the Quartets 1, 2, and 5, the Cello Sonata, the Concerto for Orchestra, the Elizabeth Bishop cycle A Mirror on Which to Dwell, the Oboe Concerto, the Quintet for piano and strings, and the Symphonia: sum fluxae pretium spei.
	listen101.blogspot.com /2004/12/birthday.html (392 words)

	American Mavericks: An interview with Elliott Carter
		ELLIOTT CARTER: Well when I was young, when I was very young, when I was a little boy I don't remember the music I heard, but there was an article in the Brooklyn Daily written by my Aunt about how I could choose phonograph records.
		I could tell what was on the phonograph records and express interest in them, which was very unusual at that time.
		Right at the end of the war I wrote a piano sonata, which was written at a time when Sam Barber used to come down here and we used to have lunch together in a very nice old hotel that's now not there.
	musicmavericks.publicradio.org /features/interview_carter.html (6312 words)

	KCOJ - Carter County, Kentucky
		Carter County was formed on April 10, 1838, from parts of Greenup and Lawrence counties and named for state Sen. William Grayson Carter.
		Boyd County was formed in 1860 and Elliot County was formed in 1869, each from a portion of Carter County.
		Five iron furnaces were built in Carter County, beginning with Pactolus in 1824; Mt. Savage and Star in 1848; Boone in 1856; and the largest, Iron Hills (later renamed Charlotte), in 1873.
	www.kycourts.net /Counties/Carter.asp?County=Carter (1036 words)

	GateWorld - Stargate SG-1 Season Five: 'Last Stand' (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-06)
		Elliot tells her that Lantash loves her, forcing Sam to face her past relationship with Martouf -- Lantash's previous host, who Sam was forced to kill ("Divide and Conquer").
		Daniel reports this to Jacob Carter, who is waiting for him near the station in a Goa'uld cargo ship.
		Elliot places the poison in his pocket, and listens as the footfalls of the approaching Jaffa army loom ever closer.
	www.gateworld.net /sg1/s5/516.shtml (1226 words)

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		CARTER: You got this assignment because you were strong, both physically and mentally.
		ELLIOT: Four of them, 25 miles from the Gate, each is due north, south, east and west.
		Elliot puts the poison in his pocket and waits as he hears a Goa'uld hunting horn.
	www.freewebs.com /sjss/transcripts/517.txt (3239 words)

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