John Cage and David Tudor: correspondence on interpretation and performance

by Iddon, Martin

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Title Statements

Full title :John Cage and David Tudor : correspondence on interpretation and performance / Martin Iddon.

Summary

John Cage is best known for his indeterminate music, which leaves a significant level of creative decision-making in the hands of the performer. But how much licence did Cage allow? Martin Iddon's book is the first volume to collect the complete extant correspondence between the composer and pianist David Tudor, one of Cage's most provocative and significant musical collaborators. The book presents their partnership from working together in New York in the early 1950s, through periods on tour in Europe, until the late stages of their work from the 1960s onwards, carried out almost exclusively within the frame of the Merce Cunningham Dance Company. Tackling the question of how much creative flexibility Tudor was granted, Iddon includes detailed examples of the ways in which Tudor realised Cage's work, especially focusing on Music of Changes to Variations II, to show how composer and pianist influenced one another's methods and styles [Publisher description].

Edition Statements

Publication Date:2013.

Publication Statements

Publisher(s):Cambridge University Press
Place of Publication:Cambridge
Language:eng
Publication Date:2013.

The Physical Object

Description:xiii, 225 pages : : illustrations ; : 26 cm.

Edition Identifiers

ISBN:9781107014329, 1107014328
oclc:ocn812250823
LC Classification:ML410.C24
Dewey Decimal:780.92/2

The music of chance -- Correspondence, 1951-1953 -- Determining the determinate -- Determining the indeterminate -- Correspondence, 1958-1962 -- (In)determining the indeterminate -- Correspondence, 1965-1989 -- 'Late' realizations -- Praxis and poiesis in indeterminate music.

Subjects

Aleatorik Aufführung Cage, John Composers Composers -- Correspondence Compositeurs -- Correspondance Correspondence Criticism, interpretation, etc Music Performances Personal correspondence Pianistes -- Correspondance Pianists Pianists -- Correspondence Tudor, David