Contemporary Composers On Contemporary Music
Title | Contemporary Composers On Contemporary Music PDF eBook |
Author | Elliott Schwartz |
Publisher | Da Capo Press |
Pages | 586 |
Release | 2009-06-16 |
Genre | Music |
ISBN | 0786748338 |
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.
Contemporary Composers On Contemporary Music
Title | Contemporary Composers On Contemporary Music PDF eBook |
Author | Elliott Schwartz |
Publisher | Da Capo Press |
Pages | 515 |
Release | 2009-06-16 |
Genre | Music |
ISBN | 0786748338 |
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.
Techniques of the Contemporary Composer
Title | Techniques of the Contemporary Composer PDF eBook |
Author | David Cope |
Publisher | Cengage Learning |
Pages | 0 |
Release | 1997 |
Genre | Education |
ISBN | 9780028647371 |
This text is a practical guide to the compositional techniques, resources, and technologies available to composers today. Each chapter traces the development of traditional and modern elements that form the foundation of music in the late twentieth century. Among the subjects discussed are interval exploration, serialism, pitch-class sets, twelve-tone music, electronic music, algorithmic composition, and indeterminacy.
Women of Influence in Contemporary Music
Title | Women of Influence in Contemporary Music PDF eBook |
Author | Michael K. Slayton |
Publisher | Scarecrow Press |
Pages | 496 |
Release | 2010-12-23 |
Genre | Music |
ISBN | 0810877481 |
In this collection of essays and interviews, nine gifted composers openly discuss their work.
Composer to Composer
Title | Composer to Composer PDF eBook |
Author | Andrew Ford |
Publisher | |
Pages | 272 |
Release | 1993 |
Genre | Biography & Autobiography |
ISBN |
Interviews with 30 composers from Australia, Great Britain and the United States about what they compose and their views on 20th century music.
Contemporary Composers
Title | Contemporary Composers PDF eBook |
Author | |
Publisher | |
Pages | |
Release | 2018 |
Genre | |
ISBN |
Simple Composition
Title | Simple Composition PDF eBook |
Author | Charles Wuorinen |
Publisher | C F Peters Corporation |
Pages | 168 |
Release | 1994 |
Genre | Music |
ISBN | 9780938856061 |
Originally published: New York: Longman, c1979.