Eight lectures on experimental music / edited by Alvin Lucier.
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TextPublisher: Middletown : Wesleyan University Press, 2017Description: 160 pages ; 22 cmContent type: text Media type: unmediated Carrier type: volumeISBN: 9780819577634 (hbk.) :Subject(s): Music -- 20th century -- History and criticism | Avant-garde (Music) | Music | MusicDDC classification: 780.9'04 Summary: In this collection, path-breaking figures of American experimental music discuss the meaning of their work at the turn of the 21st century. Presented between 1989 and 2002 at Wesleyan University, these captivating lectures provide rare insights by composers whose work has shaped our understanding of what it means to be experimental: Maryanne Amacher, Robert Ashley, Philip Glass, Meredith Monk, Steve Reich, James Tenney, Christian Wolff, and La Monte Young. Collected here for the first time, together these lectures tell the story of 20th-century American experimental music, covering such topics as repetition, phase, drone, duration, collaboration, and technological innovation.
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| 780.904 CON Contemporary composers on contemporary music / | 780.904 COP New directions in music / | 780.904 COR Microgroove : forays into other music / | 780.904 EIG Eight lectures on experimental music / | 780.904 FIN The language of twentieth century music : A dictionary of terms / | 780.904 FOR Illegal harmonies : music in the modern age / | 780.904 GOT Experimental music since 1970 / |
In this collection, path-breaking figures of American experimental music discuss the meaning of their work at the turn of the 21st century. Presented between 1989 and 2002 at Wesleyan University, these captivating lectures provide rare insights by composers whose work has shaped our understanding of what it means to be experimental: Maryanne Amacher, Robert Ashley, Philip Glass, Meredith Monk, Steve Reich, James Tenney, Christian Wolff, and La Monte Young. Collected here for the first time, together these lectures tell the story of 20th-century American experimental music, covering such topics as repetition, phase, drone, duration, collaboration, and technological innovation.
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