Music 109: notes on experimental music
"Composer and performer Alvin Lucier brings clarity to the world of experimental music as he takes the reader through more than a hundred groundbreaking musical works, including those of Robert Ashley, John Cage, Charles Ives, Morton Feldman, Philip Glass, Pauline Oliveros, Steve Reich, Christian Wolff, and La Monte Young. Lucier explains in detail how each piece is made, unlockiing secrets of the composers' style and technique. The book as a whole charts the progress of American experimental m…
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- Full title :Music 109 : notes on experimental music / Alvin Lucier ; foreword by Robert Ashley.
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"Composer and performer Alvin Lucier brings clarity to the world of experimental music as he takes the reader through more than a hundred groundbreaking musical works, including those of Robert Ashley, John Cage, Charles Ives, Morton Feldman, Philip Glass, Pauline Oliveros, Steve Reich, Christian Wolff, and La Monte Young. Lucier explains in detail how each piece is made, unlockiing secrets of the composers' style and technique. The book as a whole charts the progress of American experimental music from the 1950s to the present, covering such topics as indeterminacy, electronics, and minimalism as well as radical innovations in music for the piano, string quartet, and opera. Music 109 is Lucier's indispensable guide to late twentieth- century composition."--Jacket.
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- Publication Date:2012.
Publication Statements
- Publisher(s):Wesleyan University Press
- Place of Publication:Middletown
- Language:eng
- Publication Date:2012.
The Physical Object
- Description:215 s
Edition Identifiers
- ISBN:9780819572974, 0819572977
- oclc:ocn940809587
- Dewey Decimal:780.92
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