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The Music of Conlon Nancarrow

Author : Kyle Gann
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
ISBN 13 : 0521028078
Total Pages : 0 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (21 download)

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Download or read book The Music of Conlon Nancarrow written by Kyle Gann and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 2006-11-02 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The expatriate American experimentalist composer Conlon Nancarrow is increasingly recognised as having one of the most innovative musical minds of this century. His music, almost all written for player piano, is the most rhythmically complex ever written, couched in intricate contrapuntal systems using up to twelve different tempos at the same time. Yet despite its complexity, Nancarrow's music drew its early influences from the jazz pianism of Art Tatum and Earl Hines and from the rhythms of Indian music; Nancarrow's whirlwinds of notes are joyously physical in their energy. Composed in almost complete isolation from 1940, this music has achieved international fame only in the last few years. Born in 1912, the son of the mayor of Texarkana, Nancarrow fought in the Lincoln Brigade, then fled America to Mexico City to avoid being hounded for his former Communist affiliations. The author travelled to Mexico City to research Nancarrow's music and to discuss it with him. He analyses sixty-five works, virtually the composer's complete output, and includes a biographical chapter containing much information never before published.

The Music of Conlon Nancarrow

Author : Kyle Gann
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
ISBN 13 : 0521465346
Total Pages : 0 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (214 download)

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Download or read book The Music of Conlon Nancarrow written by Kyle Gann and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 1995-11-30 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Study of Conlon Nancarrow, composer of the world's most rhythmically complex music.

The Player-piano Music of Conlon Nancarrow

Author : Philip Caldwell Carlsen
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 194 pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (63 download)

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Download or read book The Player-piano Music of Conlon Nancarrow written by Philip Caldwell Carlsen and published by . This book was released on 1986 with total page 194 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Encounters with Conlon Nancarrow

Author : Jürgen Hocker
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9780739172858
Total Pages : 0 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (728 download)

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Download or read book Encounters with Conlon Nancarrow written by Jürgen Hocker and published by . This book was released on 2012 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Encounters with Conlon Nancarrow, by Jürgen Hocker, is the first extensive biography of the American-Mexican composer whose works for the player piano exhibit an innovation and complexity which remains unmatched. Hocker gives insight to the life and personality of the often reclusive Nancarrow, making use of many as-yet-unpublished sources and interviews as well as a timeline and a comprehensive catalogue of Nancarrow's works.

The Player-piano Music of Conlon Nancarrow

Author : Philip Carlsen
Publisher : Brooklyn, N.Y. : Institute for Studies in American Music, Conservatory of Music, Brooklyn College of the City University of New York
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 92 pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (49 download)

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Download or read book The Player-piano Music of Conlon Nancarrow written by Philip Carlsen and published by Brooklyn, N.Y. : Institute for Studies in American Music, Conservatory of Music, Brooklyn College of the City University of New York. This book was released on 1988 with total page 92 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

American Music Before 1865 in Print and on Records

Author : James R. Heintze
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9780914678335
Total Pages : 248 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (783 download)

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Download or read book American Music Before 1865 in Print and on Records written by James R. Heintze and published by . This book was released on 1990 with total page 248 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

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.

The Piano

Author : Susan Tomes
Publisher : Yale University Press
ISBN 13 : 0300253923
Total Pages : 399 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (2 download)

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Download or read book The Piano written by Susan Tomes and published by Yale University Press. This book was released on 2021-01-01 with total page 399 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A fascinating history of the piano explored through 100 pieces chosen by one of the UK's most renowned concert pianists "Tomes . . . casts her net widely, taking in chamber music and concertos, knotty avant-garde masterworks and (most welcome) jazz."--Richard Fairman, Financial Times, "Best Books of 2021: Classical Music" "[One of] the most beautiful books I got my hands on this year. . . . About the shaping of this maddening, glorious, unconquerable instrument."--Jenny Colgan, Spectator, "Books of the Year" An astonishingly versatile instrument, the piano allows just two hands to play music of great complexity and subtlety. For more than two hundred years, it has brought solo and collaborative music into homes and concert halls and has inspired composers in every musical genre--from classical to jazz and light music. Charting the development of the piano from the late eighteenth century to the present day, pianist and writer Susan Tomes takes the reader with her on a personal journey through 100 pieces including solo works, chamber music, concertos, and jazz. Her choices include composers such as Bach, Mozart, Beethoven, Robert Schumann, Tchaikovsky, Debussy, Gershwin, and Philip Glass. Looking at this history from a modern performer's perspective, she acknowledges neglected women composers and players including Fanny Mendelssohn, Maria Szymanowska, Clara Schumann, and Amy Beach.

Music and Technology in the Twentieth Century

Author : Hans-Joachim Braun
Publisher : JHU Press
ISBN 13 : 9780801868856
Total Pages : 268 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (688 download)

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Download or read book Music and Technology in the Twentieth Century written by Hans-Joachim Braun and published by JHU Press. This book was released on 2002-09-16 with total page 268 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Braun (Universitat der Bundeswehr) presents 13 contributions by scholars in two fields of history--musicology and technology. Topics include the role of Yamaha in Japan's musical development, the social construction of the synthesizer, the player piano as a precursor of computer music, the musical role of airplanes and locomotives, the origins of the 45-RPM record, violin vibrato and the phonograph, Jimi Hendrix, the aesthetic challenge of sound sampling, and others. Originally published in 2000 as I Sing the Body Electric: Music and Technology in the 20th Century. Annotation copyrighted by Book News, Inc., Portland, OR.

Conlon Nancarrow

Author : Jim Greeson
Publisher : University of Arkansas Department of Music
ISBN 13 : 9781557286734
Total Pages : pages
Book Rating : 4.2/5 (867 download)

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Download or read book Conlon Nancarrow written by Jim Greeson and published by University of Arkansas Department of Music. This book was released on 2012-07-01 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Although little known in the Americas, Conlon Nancarrow is considered 'one of the greatest composers of the 20th century' in Europe. Born in Texarkana, Arkansas, he left to fight against the fascists in the Spanish Civil War in the 1930's and during the Communist 'witch hunts' of the 1940's he emigrated to Mexico where he lived the rest of his life focusing on his highly sophisticated, but viscerally exciting musical creations for the player piano. In 1982 Nancarrow was awarded a MacArthur ?Genius Grant.” This film, in honor of the centennial of his birth in 1912, features performances of his exciting music, a premiere performance of a recently discovered piece, and interviews with his friends and supporters

The Player Piano Music of Conlon Nancarrow

Author : Philip Carlsen
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 204 pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (318 download)

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Download or read book The Player Piano Music of Conlon Nancarrow written by Philip Carlsen and published by . This book was released on 1987 with total page 204 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Decomposition

Author : Andrew Durkin
Publisher : Pantheon
ISBN 13 : 0307911764
Total Pages : 538 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (79 download)

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Download or read book Decomposition written by Andrew Durkin and published by Pantheon. This book was released on 2014-11-18 with total page 538 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Decomposition is a bracing, revisionary, and provocative inquiry into music—from Beethoven to Duke Ellington, from Conlon Nancarrow to Evelyn Glennie—as a personal and cultural experience: how it is composed, how it is idiosyncratically perceived by critics and reviewers, and why we listen to it the way we do. Andrew Durkin, best known as the leader of the West Coast–based Industrial Jazz Group, is singular for his insistence on asking tough questions about the complexity of our presumptions about music and about listening, especially in the digital age. In this winning and lucid study he explodes the age-old concept of musical composition as the work of individual genius, arguing instead that in both its composition and reception music is fundamentally a collaborative enterprise that comes into being only through mediation. Drawing on a rich variety of examples—Big Jay McNeely’s “Deacon’s Hop,” Biz Markie’s “Alone Again,” George Antheil’s Ballet Mécanique, Frank Zappa’s “While You Were Art,” and Pauline Oliveros’s “Tuning Meditation,” to name only a few—Durkin makes clear that our appreciation of any piece of music is always informed by neuroscientific, psychological, technological, and cultural factors. How we listen to music, he maintains, might have as much power to change it as music might have to change how we listen.

Music 109

Author : Alvin Lucier
Publisher : Wesleyan University Press
ISBN 13 : 0819572985
Total Pages : 233 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (195 download)

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Download or read book Music 109 written by Alvin Lucier and published by Wesleyan University Press. This book was released on 2012-11-16 with total page 233 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 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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Download or read book The Player-piano Music of Conlon Nancarrow written by Philip Carlsen and published by Brooklyn, N.Y. : Institute for Studies in American Music, Conservatory of Music, Brooklyn College of the City University of New York. This book was released on 1988 with total page 96 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Material Cultures of Music Notation

Author : Floris Schuiling
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 1000581209
Total Pages : 314 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (5 download)

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Download or read book Material Cultures of Music Notation written by Floris Schuiling and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2022-05-16 with total page 314 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Material Cultures of Music Notation brings together a collection of essays that explore a fundamental question in the current landscape of musicology: how can writing and reading music be understood as concrete, material practices in a wider cultural context? Drawing on interdisciplinary approaches from musicology, media studies, performance studies, and more, the chapters in this volume offer a wide array of new perspectives that foreground the materiality of music notation. From digital scores to the transmission of manuscripts in the Middle Ages, the volume deliberately disrupts boundaries of discipline, historical period, genre, and tradition, by approaching notation's materiality through four key interrelated themes: knowledge, the body, social relations, and technology. Together, the chapters capture vital new work in an essential emerging area of scholarship.

Music Downtown

Author : Kyle Gann
Publisher : Univ of California Press
ISBN 13 : 9780520935938
Total Pages : 338 pages
Book Rating : 4.9/5 (359 download)

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Download or read book Music Downtown written by Kyle Gann and published by Univ of California Press. This book was released on 2006-02-13 with total page 338 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This collection represents the cream of the more than five hundred articles written for the Village Voice by Kyle Gann, a leading authority on experimental American music of the late twentieth century. Charged with exploring every facet of cutting-edge music coming out of New York City in the 1980s and '90s, Gann writes about a wide array of timely issues that few critics have addressed, including computer music, multiculturalism and its thorny relation to music, music for the AIDS crisis, the brand-new art of electronic sampling and its legal implications, symphonies for electric guitars, operas based on talk shows, the death of twelve-tone music, and the various streams of music that flowed forth from minimalism. In these articles—including interviews with Yoko Ono, Philip Glass, Glenn Branca, and other leading musical figures—Gann paints a portrait of a bristling era in music history and defines the scruffy, vernacular field of Downtown music from which so much of the most fertile recent American music has come.

The Player Piano and Musical Labor

Author : Allison Rebecca Wente
Publisher : Taylor & Francis
ISBN 13 : 1000553124
Total Pages : 165 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (5 download)

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Download or read book The Player Piano and Musical Labor written by Allison Rebecca Wente and published by Taylor & Francis. This book was released on 2022-06-14 with total page 165 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: By the early 20th century the machine aesthetic was a well-established and dominant interest that fundamentally transformed musical performance and listening practices. While numerous scholars have examined this aesthetic in art and literature, musical compositions representing industrialized labor practices and the role of the machine in music remain largely unexplored. Moreover, in recounting the history of machines in musical recording and reproduction, scholars often tend to emphasize the phonograph, rather than player piano, despite the latter’s prominence within the newly established musical marketplace. Machines and their music influenced multiple areas of early 20th-century musical culture, from film scores to popular music and even the concert hall. But the opposite was also true: industrialized labor practices changed the musical marketplace and musical culture as a whole. As consumers accepted mechanical replacements for what previously required an active human laborer, ghostly, mechanical performers labored tirelessly in parlors, businesses, and even concert halls. Although the player piano failed to maintain a stronghold in the recorded music marketplace after 1930, the widespread acceptance of recording technologies as media for storing and enjoying music indicates a much more fundamental societal shift. This book explores that shift, examining the rise and fall of the player piano in early 20th-century society and connecting it to the digital technologies of today.