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Interviews with American Composers

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Author : Barney Childs
Publisher : University of Illinois Press
ISBN 13 : 0252052927
Total Pages : 737 pages
Book Rating : 4.2/5 (52 download)

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Download or read book Interviews with American Composers written by Barney Childs and published by University of Illinois Press. This book was released on 2022-01-25 with total page 737 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In 1972-73, Barney Childs embarked on an ambitious attempt to survey the landscape of new American concert music. He recorded freewheeling conversations with fellow composers, most of them under forty, all of them important but most not yet famous. Though unable to publish the interviews in his lifetime, Childs had gathered invaluable dialogues with the likes of Robert Ashley, Olly Wilson, Harold Budd, Christian Wolff, and others. Virginia Anderson edits the first published collection of these conversations. She pairs each interview with a contextual essay by a contemporary expert that shows how the composer's discussion with Childs fits into his life and work. Together, the interviewees cover a broad range of ideas and concerns around topics like education, notation, developments in electronic music, changing demands on performers, and tonal music. Innovative and revealing, Interviews with American Composers is an artistic and historical snapshot of American music at an important crossroads.

American Composers

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Author : Elsa Z. Posell
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 200 pages
Book Rating : 4.F/5 ( download)

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Download or read book American Composers written by Elsa Z. Posell and published by . This book was released on 1963 with total page 200 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Includes material on Samuel Barber, Leonard Bernstein, Aaron Copland, Henry Dixon Cowell, Paul Creston, Norman Dello Joio, Lukas Foss, Stephen Collins Foster, George Gershwin, Morton Gould, Charles Griffes, Ferde Grofe, Howard Hanson, Roy Harris, Alan Hovhaness, Charles Ives, Ulysses Kay, Normand Lockwood, Edward MacDowell, Peter Mennin, Gian-Carlo Menotti, Douglas Stuart Moore, Walter Piston, Quincy Porter, Wallingford Riegger, William Schuman, Roger Sessions, John Philip Sousa, and William Grant Still.

Musical Landscapes in Color

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Author : Bill Banfield
Publisher : Scarecrow Press
ISBN 13 : 0585464162
Total Pages : 398 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (854 download)

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Download or read book Musical Landscapes in Color written by Bill Banfield and published by Scarecrow Press. This book was released on 2004-09-01 with total page 398 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A sequel to the award-winning The Black Composer Speaks (Scarecrow Press, 1978), this exploration of the creative world of African American composers traces the lives and careers of 40 talented individuals and, in their own words, provides perspectives on a world that has been slow to recognize their remarkable contributions to classical music. The discussion places the music of these composers within the greater context of Western art music, but analyzes it through the lenses of sociology, Western concepts of art and taste, and vernacular musical forms, including spirituals, blues, jazz, and contemporary popular music. Each chapter is devoted to an individual composer, who discusses his or her musical training, compositional techniques and style, and the composer's personal philosophy as reflected in his or her music. A selected list of compositions for each composer is included, as well as a photo and sample of the composer's "hand." Banfield offers unprecedented insight into the history and influence of the African American composer with this documentary, which will appeal to everyone from the music scholar to the general reader.

Ten Great American Composers

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Author : Carmen Bredeson
Publisher : Enslow Publishing
ISBN 13 : 9780766018327
Total Pages : 0 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (183 download)

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Download or read book Ten Great American Composers written by Carmen Bredeson and published by Enslow Publishing. This book was released on 2002 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Unveils the unique influences of Sousa, Ellington and eight other composers whose musical creations have become some of the most memorable music in history.

Reminiscences of an American Composer and Pianist

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Author : George Walker
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 240 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (91 download)

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Download or read book Reminiscences of an American Composer and Pianist written by George Walker and published by . This book was released on 2009-07-09 with total page 240 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The first black American to receive the Pulitzer Prize for music (for his composition Lilacs), George Walker recounts the most significant events in his life and distinguished career as a composer and a musician.

Carla Bley

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Author : Amy C. Beal
Publisher : University of Illinois Press
ISBN 13 : 0252036360
Total Pages : 130 pages
Book Rating : 4.2/5 (52 download)

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Download or read book Carla Bley written by Amy C. Beal and published by University of Illinois Press. This book was released on 2011-10-25 with total page 130 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This is the first comprehensive treatment of the remarkable music and influence of Carla Bley, a highly innovative American jazz composer, pianist, organist, band leader, and activist. With fastidious attention to Bley's diverse compositions over the last fifty years spanning critical moments in jazz and experimental music history, Amy C. Beal tenders a long-overdue representation of a major figure in American music. Best known for her jazz opera "Escalator over the Hill," her role in the Free Jazz movement of the 1960s, and her collaborations with artists such as Jack Bruce, Don Cherry, Robert Wyatt, and Pink Floyd drummer Nick Mason, Bley has successfully maneuvered the field of jazz from highly accessible, tradition-based contexts to commercially unviable, avant-garde works. Beal details the staggering variety in Bley's work as well as her use of parody, quotations, and contradictions, examining the vocabulary Bley has developed throughout her career and highlighting the compositional and cultural significance of her experimentalism. Beal also points to Bley's professional and managerial work as a pioneer in the development of artist-owned record labels, the cofounder and manager of WATT Records, and the cofounder of New Music Distribution Service. Showing her to be not just an artist but an activist who has maintained musical independence and professional control amid the profit-driven, corporation-dominated world of commercial jazz, Beal's straightforward discussion of Bley's life and career will stimulate deeper examinations of her work.

Women of Influence in Contemporary Music

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Author : Michael K. Slayton
Publisher : Scarecrow Press
ISBN 13 : 0810877481
Total Pages : 496 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (18 download)

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Download or read book Women of Influence in Contemporary Music written by Michael K. Slayton and published by Scarecrow Press. This book was released on 2010-12-23 with total page 496 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In this collection of essays and interviews, nine gifted composers openly discuss their work.

Duke Ellington

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Author : Steven Brower
Publisher : Rizzoli Publications
ISBN 13 : 0847848132
Total Pages : 229 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (478 download)

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Download or read book Duke Ellington written by Steven Brower and published by Rizzoli Publications. This book was released on 2016-03-22 with total page 229 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Beautifully illustrated and unparalleled in scope, this is an elegant visual celebration befitting the life and work of the "prince of the piano." Duke Ellington was the undisputed father of the American songbook. A prolific writer and consummate performer, Ellington was the author of such standards as "Solitude," "Prelude to a Kiss," and "It Don’t Mean a Thing (If It Ain’t Got that Swing)." With a career that spanned five decades, he is one of the defining composers of the Jazz Age. With unprecedented access to the Ellington family archives, this long overdue book illuminates the life and work of an icon of twentieth-century music from his humble beginnings to his long-lasting success. Every stage of Ellington’s career is brought to life, from sepia photographs of his early days in Washington, DC, to colorful playbills from the Harlem Renaissance of the 1920s, his triumphant tours of Europe in the 1930s, and his pioneering explosion of form and genre in the 1940s and beyond. Alongside more than two hundred stunning images, contributions from peers such as Dave Brubeck, Cornel West, Quincy Jones, and Tony Bennett shed light on Ellington’s musical legacy, while the voice of his granddaughter Mercedes reveals the character behind the charisma, and the man behind the piano.

American Composers

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Author : Edward Strickland
Publisher : Indiana University Press
ISBN 13 : 9780253206435
Total Pages : 240 pages
Book Rating : 4.2/5 (64 download)

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Download or read book American Composers written by Edward Strickland and published by Indiana University Press. This book was released on 1991-08-22 with total page 240 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: " . . . Strickland's own deep involvement with the works of these composers [is] revealed by the questions and comments he poses in an appreciative, Paterian way. His profound pleasure in these works also leads him to scrutinize and challenge them intimately." —Publishers Weekly "This is an indispensable book about American music . . . " —Fanfare " . . . exhilarating . . . Any of the interviews in American Composers will stimulate your curiosity and appetite." —Hungry Mind Review " . . . not only engaging, but also a useful representation of the major compositional styles of the 1980s and their corresponding practitioners." —Notes Philip Glass, Keith Jarrett, Meredith Monk, and eight other active American composers reveal a broad spectrum of musical personalities in these candid, in-depth conversations. Witty and articulate, their remarks convey the great vitality, diversity, and distinctiveness of today's American music.

Christian Wolff

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Author : Michael Hicks
Publisher : University of Illinois Press
ISBN 13 : 0252094166
Total Pages : 138 pages
Book Rating : 4.2/5 (52 download)

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Download or read book Christian Wolff written by Michael Hicks and published by University of Illinois Press. This book was released on 2012-09-15 with total page 138 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In this first interpretive narrative of the life and work of Christian Wolff, Michael Hicks and Christian Asplund trace the influences and sensibilities of a contemporary composer's atypical career path and restless imagination. Written in full cooperation with Wolff, including access to his papers, this volume is a much-needed introduction to a leading avant-garde composer still living, writing music, and speaking about his own work. Wolff has pioneered various compositional and notational idioms, including overtly political music, indeterminacy, graphic scores, and extreme virtuosity. Trained as a classicist rather than a musician, Wolff has never quite had both feet in the rarefied world of contemporary composition. Yet he's considered a "composer's composer," with a mind ensconced equally in ancient Greek tragedy and experimental music and an eccentric and impulsive compositional approach that eludes a fixed stylistic fingerprint. Hicks and Asplund cover Wolff's family life and formative years, his role as a founder of the New York School of composers, and the context of his life and work as part of the John Cage circle, as well as his departures from it. Critically assessing Wolff's place within the experimental musical field, this volume captures both his eloquence and reticence and provides insights into his broad interests and activities within music and beyond.

Reflections of an American Composer

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Author : Arthur Berger
Publisher : Univ of California Press
ISBN 13 : 0520232518
Total Pages : 288 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (22 download)

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Download or read book Reflections of an American Composer written by Arthur Berger and published by Univ of California Press. This book was released on 2002-11-28 with total page 288 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A book of memoirs and essays by notable composer, critic and teacher Arthur Berger. The author writes vividly about the music scenes in New York, Paris, and Boston, and of his work with notable colleagues such as Stravinsky, Copeland, and Virgil Thompson.

Famous American Composers

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Author : Rupert Hughes
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 506 pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (31 download)

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Download or read book Famous American Composers written by Rupert Hughes and published by . This book was released on 1900 with total page 506 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Latin American Classical Composers

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Author : Miguel Ficher
Publisher : Scarecrow Press
ISBN 13 : 1461669111
Total Pages : 668 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (616 download)

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Download or read book Latin American Classical Composers written by Miguel Ficher and published by Scarecrow Press. This book was released on 2002-10-16 with total page 668 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Building on the strengths of the first edition, the second edition of Latin American Classical Composers: A Biographical Dictionary presents expanded and updated coverage of its topic with an aim to be comprehensive. The authors have conducted exhaustive research to fill in gaps and correct minor errors in the first edition, adding young composers and documenting deaths since 1996, when the first edition appeared. Hundreds of composers are represented in this volume, which presents biographical data, including dates of birth and death, personal information about composers' background and training, and a selective listing of each composer's works. Sources for further study are noted within each entry. An index of composers by country rounds out this work.

A New Anthology of Art Songs by African American Composers

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Author : Margaret R. Simmons
Publisher : SIU Press
ISBN 13 : 9780809325238
Total Pages : 220 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (252 download)

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Download or read book A New Anthology of Art Songs by African American Composers written by Margaret R. Simmons and published by SIU Press. This book was released on 2004 with total page 220 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Including thirty-nine pieces for voice and piano created since 1968 by eighteen artists, ANew Anthology of Art Songs by African American Composers navigates a varied musical terrain from classical European traditions to jazz and spirituals. With nearly half of the featured songs composed by women and with others by lesser-known and emerging composers, this important collection offers a diverse, representative sampling of African American art songs and works to secure the places of these songs and artists in the canon of contemporary American music.

Contemporary American Composers

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Author : Rupert Hughes
Publisher : Boston : L.C. Page
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 528 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (91 download)

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Download or read book Contemporary American Composers written by Rupert Hughes and published by Boston : L.C. Page. This book was released on 1900 with total page 528 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

American Composers

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Author : David Ewen
Publisher : Putnam Publishing Group
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 796 pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (319 download)

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Download or read book American Composers written by David Ewen and published by Putnam Publishing Group. This book was released on 1982 with total page 796 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Each of the 300 entries lists major works, and most include a personal statment of musical philosophy provided by the composer.

Composer's Voices from Ives to Ellington

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Author : Vivian Perlis
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9780300106732
Total Pages : 477 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (67 download)

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Download or read book Composer's Voices from Ives to Ellington written by Vivian Perlis and published by . This book was released on 2005 with total page 477 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: