Download or read book An Analysis of Sound Masses in Hyperprism Octandre and Int grales Three Chamber Works by Edgar Var se written by William Douglas Fulford and published by . This book was released on 1979 with total page 115 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book An Analysis of Sound Masses in Hyperprism Octandre and Inte rales Three Chamber Works by Edgard Vares e written by William Douglas Fulford and published by . This book was released on 1979 with total page 230 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book An Analysis of Sound Masses in Hyperprism Octandre and Int grales Three Chamber Works by Edgard Var se written by William Douglas Fulford and published by . This book was released on 2004 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book An Analysis of Sound Masses in Movement One of Edgar Var se s D serts written by Christiaan Osborn and published by . This book was released on 2006 with total page 106 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Sound Structure in Music written by Robert Erickson and published by Univ of California Press. This book was released on 1975-01-01 with total page 232 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book John Cage and Peter Yates written by Martin Iddon and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 2019-11-14 with total page 331 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The last - and largest - of Cage's most important formative exchanges of letters, discussing music criticism and questions of aesthetics.
Download or read book Nicolas Slonimsky written by Nicolas Slonimsky and published by . This book was released on 2004 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Music of the Common Tongue written by Christopher Small and published by Wesleyan University Press. This book was released on 2012-01-01 with total page 512 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In clear and elegant prose, Music of the Common Tongue, first published in 1987, argues that by any reasonable reckoning of the function of music in human life the African American tradition, that which stems from the collision between African and European ways of doing music which occurred in the Americas and the Caribbean during and after slavery, is the major western music of the twentieth century. In showing why this is so, the author presents not only an account of African American music from its origins but also a more general consideration of the nature of the music act and of its function in human life. The two streams of discussion occupy alternate chapters so that each casts light on the other. The author offers also an answer to what the Musical Times called the "seldom posed though glaringly obtrusive" question: "why is it that the music of an alienated, oppressed, often persecuted black minority should have made so powerful an impact on the entire industrialized world, whatever the color of its skin or economic status?"
Download or read book The Liberation of Sound written by Herbert Russcol and published by . This book was released on 1972 with total page 360 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book The Selected Letters of John Cage written by John Cage and published by Wesleyan University Press. This book was released on 2013-10-22 with total page 673 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This annotated selection of more than five hundred letters by the groundbreaking composer and avant-garde icon covers every phase of his career. This volume reveals the intimate life of John Cage with all the intelligence, wit, and inventiveness that made him such an important composer and performer. The missives range from lengthy reports of his early trips to Europe in the 1930s through his years with the dancer Merce Cunningham. They shed new light on his growing eminence as an iconic performance artist of the American avant-garde. Written in Cage’s singular voice—by turns profound, irreverent, and funny—these letters reveal Cage’s passionate interest in people, ideas, and the arts. They include correspondence with Peter Yates, David Tudor, and Pierre Boulez, among many others. Readers will enjoy Cage's commentary about the people and events of a transformative time in the arts, as well as his meditations on the very nature of art. This volume presents an extraordinary portrait of a complex, brilliant man who challenged and changed the artistic currents of the twentieth century.
Download or read book Alan Lomax written by John Szwed and published by Penguin. This book was released on 2010-12-30 with total page 570 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The remarkable life and times of the man who popularized American folk music and created the science of song Folklorist, archivist, anthropologist, singer, political activist, talent scout, ethnomusicologist, filmmaker, concert and record producer, Alan Lomax is best remembered as the man who introduced folk music to the masses. Lomax began his career making field recordings of rural music for the Library of Congress and by the late 1930s brought his discoveries to radio, including Woody Guthrie, Pete Seeger, and Burl Ives. By the 1940s he was producing concerts that brought white and black performers together, and in the 1950s he set out to record the whole world. Lomax was also a controversial figure. When he worked for the U. S. government he was tracked by the FBI, and when he worked in Britain, MI5 continued the surveillance. In his last years he turned to digital media and developed technology that anticipated today's breakthroughs. Featuring a cast of characters including Eleanor Roosevelt, Leadbelly, Carl Sandburg, Carl Sagan, Jelly Roll Morton, Muddy Waters, and Bob Dylan, Szwed's fascinating biography memorably captures Lomax and provides a definitive account of an era as seen through the life of one extraordinary man.
Download or read book Music Society Education written by Christopher Small and published by Wesleyan University Press. This book was released on 2012-01-01 with total page 249 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Cited by Soundpost as "remarkable and revolutionary" upon its publication in 1977, Music, Society, Education has become a classic in the study of music as a social force. Christopher Small sets out to examine the social implications of Western classical music, effects that until recently have been largely ignored or dismissed by most musicologists. He strives to view the Western musical tradition "through the mirror of these other musics [Balinese and African] as it were from the outside, and in so doing to learn something of the inner unspoken nature of Western culture as a whole." As series co-editor Robert Walser writes, "By pointing to the complicity of Western culture with Western imperialism, Small challenges us to create a future that is more humane than the past. And by writing a book that enables us to rethink so fundamentally our involvements with music, he teaches us how we might get there."
Download or read book The Apollonian Clockwork written by Louis Andriessen and published by Amsterdam University Press. This book was released on 2006 with total page 315 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The one book about Stravinsky Stravinsky would have liked. Richard Taruskin.
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Download or read book Var se a Looking glass Diary 1883 1928 written by Louise Varèse and published by New York : Norton. This book was released on 1972 with total page 318 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Edgard Victor Achille Charles Varèse was an innovative French-born composer who spent the greater part of his career in the United States. Varèse's music emphasizes timbre and rhythm. He was the inventor of the term "organized sound", a phrase meaning that certain timbres and rhythms can be grouped together, sublimating into a whole new definition of music. Although his complete surviving works only last about three hours, he has been recognised as an influence by several major composers of the late 20th century. His use of new instruments and electronic resources led to his being known as the "Father of Electronic Music" while Henry Miller described him as "The stratospheric Colossus of Sound". In this personal memoir, Louise Varèse tells of her husband's moods, passions, and inspirations; of his family; his friendships in the worlds of music, art, and literature; his struggles against apathy and critical incomprehension.
Download or read book Perspectives on American Composers written by Benjamin Boretz and published by W W Norton & Company Incorporated. This book was released on 1971 with total page 268 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Contemporary Composers On Contemporary Music written by Elliott Schwartz and published by Hachette UK. This book was released on 2009-06-16 with total page 510 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This anthology of essays, interviews, and autobiographical pieces provides an invaluable overview of the evolution of contemporary music—from chromaticism, serialism, and indeterminacy to jazz, vernacular, electronic, and non-Western influences. Featuring classic essays by Stravinsky, Stockhausen, and Reich, as well as writings by lesser-known but equally innovative composers such as Jack Beeson, Richard Maxfield, and T. J. Anderson, this collection covers a broad range of styles and approaches. Here you will find Busoni's influential "Sketch of a New Esthetic of Music"; Partch's exploration of a new notation system; Babbitt's defense of advanced composition in his controversial "Who Cares If You Listen?"; and Pauline Oliveros's meditations on sound. Now updated with fifteen new composers including Michael Tippet, György Ligeti, Gunther Schuller, Ben Johnston, Sofia Gubaidulina, and William Bolcom, this important book gathers together forty-nine pieces—many out of print and some newly written for this volume—which serve as a documentary history of twentieth-century music, in theory and practice. Impassioned, provocative, and eloquent, these writings are as exciting and diverse as the music they discuss.
