Terry Riley's In C
Title | Terry Riley's In C PDF eBook |
Author | Robert Carl |
Publisher | Oxford University Press |
Pages | 164 |
Release | 2009-08-05 |
Genre | Music |
ISBN | 0199717133 |
Setting the stage for a most intriguing journey into the world of minimalism, Robert Carl's Terry Riley's In C argues that the work holds its place in the canon because of the very challenges it presents to "classical" music. Carl examines In C in the context of its era, its grounding in aesthetic practices and assumptions, its process of composition, presentation, recording, and dissemination.
The San Francisco Tape Music Center
Title | The San Francisco Tape Music Center PDF eBook |
Author | David W. Bernstein |
Publisher | Univ of California Press |
Pages | 348 |
Release | 2008-07-08 |
Genre | Music |
ISBN | 0520256174 |
DVD, entitled Wow and flutter, contains recordings of concerts at the festival, held Oct. 1-2. 2004, RPI Playhouse, Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute, Troy, N.Y.
Four Musical Minimalists
Title | Four Musical Minimalists PDF eBook |
Author | Keith Potter |
Publisher | Cambridge University Press |
Pages | 412 |
Release | 2002-04-25 |
Genre | Biography & Autobiography |
ISBN | 9780521015011 |
Offers the most detailed account yet of the early works of these four minimalist composers.
The Rest Is Noise
Title | The Rest Is Noise PDF eBook |
Author | Alex Ross |
Publisher | Farrar, Straus and Giroux |
Pages | 706 |
Release | 2007-10-16 |
Genre | Music |
ISBN | 1429932880 |
Winner of the 2007 National Book Critics Circle Award for Criticism A New York Times Book Review Top Ten Book of the Year Time magazine Top Ten Nonfiction Book of 2007 Newsweek Favorite Books of 2007 A Washington Post Book World Best Book of 2007 In this sweeping and dramatic narrative, Alex Ross, music critic for The New Yorker, weaves together the histories of the twentieth century and its music, from Vienna before the First World War to Paris in the twenties; from Hitler's Germany and Stalin's Russia to downtown New York in the sixties and seventies up to the present. Taking readers into the labyrinth of modern style, Ross draws revelatory connections between the century's most influential composers and the wider culture. The Rest Is Noise is an astonishing history of the twentieth century as told through its music.
Fox's Feud
Title | Fox's Feud PDF eBook |
Author | Colin Dann |
Publisher | Random House |
Pages | 166 |
Release | 2011-09-30 |
Genre | Juvenile Fiction |
ISBN | 1446480755 |
It was fox who found her. Vixen heard his cry - an angry, baffled cry of distress. She found him standing over the body of Dreamer. She was dead . . . Another gripping adventure of the animals of Farthing Wood by award-winning author Colin Dann. The fox cub Dreamer has been killed in a vicious attack, and the animals n White Deer Park have no doubt who is responsible. The old fox Scarface, feeling his position threatened by the new arrivals, has lashed out savagely at a defenceless cub. Fox vows revenge. But are he and his young family a match for the formidable strength of Scarface and his clan? Yet again the animals must band together to avert disaster.
This Life of Sounds
Title | This Life of Sounds PDF eBook |
Author | Renee Levine Packer |
Publisher | Oxford University Press |
Pages | 258 |
Release | 2010-07-23 |
Genre | Music |
ISBN | 0199779678 |
This book is an invaluable chronicle of an exuberant time of artistic exploration and experimentation populated by now legendary figures such as John Cage, Morton Feldman, Cornelius Cardew, Terry Riley, Julius Eastman, David Tudor, and many others who were part of this under-known chapter of late 20th century music history. Levine Packer brings it to life once again.
Minimalism:Origins
Title | Minimalism:Origins PDF eBook |
Author | Edward Strickland |
Publisher | Indiana University Press |
Pages | 324 |
Release | 2000-09-22 |
Genre | Art |
ISBN | 9780253213884 |
The term Minimalism appeared in the mid-1960s, primarily with reference to the stripped down sculpture of artists like Donald Judd. This volume investigates the origins of Minimalism in post-war American culture. The author redefines it as a movement that developed reductive stylistic innovations.