Music 109 : Notes on Experimental Music

Name: Music 109 : Notes on Experimental Music
Brand: Wesleyan University Press
SKU: 0819574929
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ISBN: 9780819574923

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28 Aug, 2014

By Alvin Lucier (author), Robert Ashley (Other)

An engaging inside view of experimental musicComposer and performer Alvin Lucier brings clarity to the world of experimental music as he takes the reader t...

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ISBN-10:

0819574929

ISBN-13:

9780819574923

Publisher

Wesleyan University Press

Dimensions

8.49 X 5.57 X 0.38 inches

Language

English

Description

An engaging inside view of 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, unlocking 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. Clear, approachable and lively, Music 109 is Lucier's indispensable guide to late 20th-century composition. No previous musical knowledge is required, and all readers are welcome.

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ISBN-10

:0819574929

ISBN-13

:9780819574923

Publisher

:Wesleyan University Press

Publication date

: 28 Aug, 2014

Editorial Reviews

"Alvin Lucier sat in a room and created extraordinary music from the confluence of resonance and technology. This is his brilliant and lucid account of the experimental strand of late twentieth-century contemporary music, by one of its great visionaries."--David Rothenberg, ECM recording artist, author of Survival of the Beautiful and Thousand Mile Song

"Alvin Lucier is an enormously important experimental composer whose reputation has grown considerably over the past decade. Written in Lucier's characteristically laconic, deadpan style, Music 109 mixes biography, history, anecdote, and musicology to offer a personal account of experimental musical practice and analyses of many of its key works. It is tremendously valuable for its first-hand, insider's view of the field and for Lucier's intelligent and engaging examinations of musical works.""--Christoph Cox, professor of philosophy, Hampshire College

About the Author

ALVIN LUCIER is the John Spencer Camp Professor of Music emeritus at Wesleyan University. Since the mid-1960s, he has explored the natural characteristics of sound and the spaces in which they are heard. He is the author of Reflections/Reflexionen and coauthor, with Douglas Simon, of Chambers.

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