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A Concise History of Avant-garde Music

Author : Paul Griffiths
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 224 pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (318 download)

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Download or read book A Concise History of Avant-garde Music written by Paul Griffiths and published by . This book was released on 1978 with total page 224 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: There has long been a need for an introduction to modern music for the general reader. This book fills that need. Beginning at the threshold between Romanticism and the modern era, with the music of Debussy and Mahler, the author traces the new directions of music. The various paths are made clear by a concentration on the major works and the major turning-points in the music of our time; the new rhythmic force that came in with The Rite of Spring, the unbounded universe of Schoenberg's atonality, the undreamt-of possibilites opened up by electronics, the role of chance in the music of John Cage. Naturally the emphasis is on those composers who have contributed most to forming the widened musical outlook of today. Apart from those already mentioned, the book considers the music of Alban Berg and Anton Webern, Charles Ives and the American experimentalists who followed him, Edgard Varese and Olivier Messiaen, Karlheinz Stockhausen and Pierre Boulez. All are surveyed in a presentation which, without being technical, helps to explain how and why music has developed in the ways that it has. The illustrations include portraits, posters, costume designs, instruments and orchestras, as well as extracts from a wide variety of sources, many of which are beautiful as art objects in their own right.

A Concise History of Western Music

Author : Paul Griffiths
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
ISBN 13 : 0521842948
Total Pages : 335 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (218 download)

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Download or read book A Concise History of Western Music written by Paul Griffiths and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 2006-06-29 with total page 335 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Publisher Description

Experimentalism Otherwise

Author : Benjamin Piekut
Publisher : Univ of California Press
ISBN 13 : 0520268512
Total Pages : 296 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (22 download)

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Download or read book Experimentalism Otherwise written by Benjamin Piekut and published by Univ of California Press. This book was released on 2011-04-04 with total page 296 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A book about the links between avant garde music and the art scene in New York City in the 1960s. John Cage and Iggy Pop, together at last.

Music of the Twentieth-Century Avant-Garde

Author : Larry Sitsky
Publisher : Greenwood
ISBN 13 : 9780313296895
Total Pages : 0 pages
Book Rating : 4.2/5 (968 download)

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Download or read book Music of the Twentieth-Century Avant-Garde written by Larry Sitsky and published by Greenwood. This book was released on 2002-12-30 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Presenting a view of the 20th-century music avant-garde without resorting to highly specialized jargon, this work offers an exhaustive history and analysis of contemporary music in a social, political, and artistic context. Distinguished contributors from around the world consider specific composers who represent the most progressive musical thinking of their time and place. Editor Larry Sitsky, an eminent Australian composer and teacher, has assembled an accessible, unique, and clearly written collection. Also exploring the links among this diverse group of composers, the guide offers a cross-index of names that will help the researcher formulate a cohesive view of the 20th-century avant-garde. A bibliography and list of selected works round out the volume, which succeeds in demystifying an area that, until now, has been the exclusive province only of the specialist.

Experimental Music

Author : Michael Nyman
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
ISBN 13 : 9780521653831
Total Pages : 218 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (538 download)

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Download or read book Experimental Music written by Michael Nyman and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 1999-07-29 with total page 218 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Composer Michael Nyman's classic 1974 account of the postwar experimental tradition in music.

Avant-garde Film

Author : Michael O'Pray
Publisher : Wallflower Press
ISBN 13 : 9781903364567
Total Pages : 150 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (645 download)

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Download or read book Avant-garde Film written by Michael O'Pray and published by Wallflower Press. This book was released on 2003 with total page 150 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Annotation Few aspects of American military history have been as vigorously debated as Harry Truman's decision to use atomic bombs against Japan. In this carefully crafted volume, Michael Kort describes the wartime circumstances and thinking that form the context for the decision to use these weapons, surveys the major debates related to that decision, and provides a comprehensive collection of key primary source documents that illuminate the behavior of the United States and Japan during the closing days of World War II. Kort opens with a summary of the debate over Hiroshima as it has evolved since 1945. He then provides a historical overview of thye events in question, beginning with the decision and program to build the atomic bomb. Detailing the sequence of events leading to Japan's surrender, he revisits the decisive battles of the Pacific War and the motivations of American and Japanese leaders. Finally, Kort examines ten key issues in the discussion of Hiroshima and guides readers to relevant primary source documents, scholarly books, and articles.

Avant-Garde on Record

Author : Jonathan Goldman
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 1009363409
Total Pages : 338 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (93 download)

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Download or read book Avant-Garde on Record written by Jonathan Goldman and published by . This book was released on 2023-11 with total page 338 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: An innovative contribution to music history, cultural studies, and sound studies, Avant-garde on Record revisits post-war composers and their technologically oriented brand of musical modernism. It describes how a broad range of figures (including Pierre Boulez, Karlheinz Stockhausen, Henri Pousseur, Toshirō Mayuzumi, Claire Schapira, Anthony Braxton and Gunther Schuller) engaged with avant-garde aesthetics while responding to a rapidly changing, technologically fuelled, spatialized audio culture. Jonathan Goldman focuses on how contemporary listeners understood these composers' works in the golden age of LPs and explores how this reception was mediated through consumer-oriented sound technology that formed a prism through which listeners processed the 'music of their time'. His account reveals unexpected aspects of twentieth-century audio culture: from sonic ping-pong to son et lumière shows, from Venetian choral music by Stravinsky to the soundscape of Niagara Falls, from a Buddhist Cantata to an LP box set cast as a parlour game.

A History of Experimental Film and Video

Author : A.L. Rees
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing
ISBN 13 : 1838714197
Total Pages : 208 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (387 download)

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Download or read book A History of Experimental Film and Video written by A.L. Rees and published by Bloomsbury Publishing. This book was released on 2019-07-25 with total page 208 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Avant-garde film is almost indefinable. It is in a constant state of change and redefinition. In his highly-acclaimed history of experimental film, A.L. Rees tracks the movement of the film avant-garde between the cinema and modern art (with its postmodern coda). But he also reconstitutes the film avant-garde as an independent form of art practice with its own internal logic and aesthetic discourse. In this revised and updated edition, Rees introduces experimental film and video to new readers interested in the wider cinema, as well as offering a guide to enthusiasts of avant-garde film and new media arts. Ranging from Cézanne and Dada, via Cocteau, Brakhage and Le Grice, to the new wave of British film and video artists from the 1990s to the present day, this expansive study situates avant-garde film between the cinema and the gallery, with many links to sonic as well as visual arts. The new edition includes a review of current scholarship in avant-garde film history and includes updated reading and viewing lists. It also features a new introduction and concluding chapter, which assess the rise of video projection in the gallery since the millennium, and describe new work by the latest generation of experimental film-makers. The new edition is richly illustrated with images of the art works discussed.

A Concise History of American Music Education

Author : Michael L. Mark
Publisher : Rowman & Littlefield
ISBN 13 : 1578868505
Total Pages : 185 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (788 download)

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Download or read book A Concise History of American Music Education written by Michael L. Mark and published by Rowman & Littlefield. This book was released on 2008 with total page 185 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Co-published by MENC: The National Association for Music Education. A History of American Music Education covers the history of American music education, from its roots in Biblical times through recent historical events and trends. It describes the educational, philosophical, and sociological aspects of the subject, always putting it in the context of the history of the United States. It offers complete information on professional organizations, materials, techniques, and personalities in music education.

Charles Ives

Author : Gayle Sherwood Magee
Publisher : Psychology Press
ISBN 13 : 9780815338215
Total Pages : 266 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (382 download)

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Download or read book Charles Ives written by Gayle Sherwood Magee and published by Psychology Press. This book was released on 2002 with total page 266 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This is a comprehensively annotated guide to all the significant literature on the American composer Charles Ives (1874-1954). It includes English and foreign-language books, monographs, articles, chapters, dissertations and masters' theses.

Charles Ives

Author : Gayle Sherwood Magee
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 1135847169
Total Pages : 289 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (358 download)

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Download or read book Charles Ives written by Gayle Sherwood Magee and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2010-06-10 with total page 289 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This research guide provides detailed information on over one thousand publications and websites concerning the American composer Charles Ives. With informative annotations and nearly two hundred new entries, this greatly expanded, updated, and revised guide offers a key survey of the field for interested readers and experienced researchers alike.

The Rest Is Noise

Author : Alex Ross
Publisher : Farrar, Straus and Giroux
ISBN 13 : 1429932880
Total Pages : 706 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (299 download)

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Download or read book The Rest Is Noise written by Alex Ross and published by Farrar, Straus and Giroux. This book was released on 2007-10-16 with total page 706 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 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.

Sourcebook for Research in Music

Author : Phillip Crabtree
Publisher : Indiana University Press
ISBN 13 : 9780253213235
Total Pages : 258 pages
Book Rating : 4.2/5 (132 download)

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Download or read book Sourcebook for Research in Music written by Phillip Crabtree and published by Indiana University Press. This book was released on 1993 with total page 258 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This bibliography of bibliographies lists and describes sources, from basic references to highly specialized materials. Valuable as a classroom text and as a research tool for scholars, librarians, performers, and teachers.

Sourcebook for Research in Music, Third Edition

Author : Allen Scott
Publisher : Indiana University Press
ISBN 13 : 0253014565
Total Pages : 518 pages
Book Rating : 4.2/5 (53 download)

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Download or read book Sourcebook for Research in Music, Third Edition written by Allen Scott and published by Indiana University Press. This book was released on 2015-06-01 with total page 518 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Since it was first published in 1993, the Sourcebook for Research in Music has become an invaluable resource in musical scholarship. The balance between depth of content and brevity of format makes it ideal for use as a textbook for students, a reference work for faculty and professional musicians, and as an aid for librarians. The introductory chapter includes a comprehensive list of bibliographical terms with definitions; bibliographic terms in German, French, and Italian; and the plan of the Library of Congress and the Dewey Decimal music classification systems. Integrating helpful commentary to instruct the reader on the scope and usefulness of specific items, this updated and expanded edition accounts for the rapid growth in new editions of standard works, in fields such as ethnomusicology, performance practice, women in music, popular music, education, business, and music technology. These enhancements to its already extensive bibliographies ensures that the Sourcebook will continue to be an indispensable reference for years to come.

Easy Listening and Film Scoring 1948-78

Author : Jack Curtis Dubowsky
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 0429997671
Total Pages : 290 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (299 download)

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Download or read book Easy Listening and Film Scoring 1948-78 written by Jack Curtis Dubowsky and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2021-05-27 with total page 290 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Composers, arrangers, conductors, session musicians, and executives worked in easy listening and scoring, complicating an academic focus that lionizes film music while ignoring or deriding easy listening. This book documents easy listening’s connections with film music, an aspect overlooked in academic and popular literature. Fueled by the rise of the LP and home entertainment, easy listening became the largest midcentury commercial music market, generating more actual income for the record business than 7- inch singles. Easy listening roped in subgenres including classical, baroque, jazz, Latin, Polynesian, "exotica," rock, Broadway, and R&B, appropriated and reinterpreted just as they were for cinema. Easy listening provided opportunities in orchestral music for conservatory- trained composers. Major film composers such as Henry Mancini and Michel Legrand had a prodigious output of easy listening albums. Critics fault easy listening for structural racisms, overlooking its evolution and practitioners. Easy listening helped destabilize a tripartite record business that categorized product as race records, old time records, or general popular music. Charlie Parker’s with Strings records altered the direction of jazz, profoundly influencing other performers, encouraging bold crosspollinations, and making money. The influence of technology and historical contexts of music for work and leisure are explored. Original interviews and primary sources will fascinate scholars, historians, and students of cinema, television, film scoring, and midcentury popular music.

Modern Music

Author : Paul Griffiths
Publisher : Thames & Hudson
ISBN 13 : 9780500202784
Total Pages : 216 pages
Book Rating : 4.2/5 (27 download)

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Download or read book Modern Music written by Paul Griffiths and published by Thames & Hudson. This book was released on 1994 with total page 216 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Beginning at the threshold of the modern era, with the late Romanticism of Debussy and Mahler, the author traces the new directions of music through composers such as Alban Berg and Anton Webern, Charles Ives, Edgard Varese and Olivier Messiaen, Karlheinz Stockhausen, Pierre Boulez, Philip Glass and Elliott Carter. The various paths are made clear by a concentration on the major works and turningpoints in the music of our time: the new rhythmic force that came in with The Rite of Spring, the unbounded universe of Schoenberg's atonality, the undreamed-of possibilities opened up by electronics, the role of chance in the music of John Cage and the astonishing diversity of minimalism.

A Concise History of Rock Music

Author : Graham Wade
Publisher : Mel Bay Publications
ISBN 13 : 1619110164
Total Pages : 371 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (191 download)

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Download or read book A Concise History of Rock Music written by Graham Wade and published by Mel Bay Publications. This book was released on 2012-02-27 with total page 371 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book, intended for the general public, music students, and enthusiasts of all ages, explores the entire history of rock music, from its origins up to the twenty-first century. Paul Fowles, guitarist, teacher and writer, has created a fascinating guide to a musical phenomenon which has captured the imagination of young people throughout the world.