{"product_id":"contemporary-composers-on-contemporary-music-elliott-schwartz-9780306808197","title":"Contemporary Composers on Contemporary Music","description":"This anthology of essays, interviews, and autobiographical pieces provides an invaluable overview of the evolution of contemporary music--from chromaticism, serialism, and indeterminacy to jazz, vernacular, electronic, and non-Western influences. Featuring classic essays by Stravinsky, Stockhausen, and Reich, as well as writings by lesser-known but equally innovative composers such as Jack Beeson, Richard Maxfield, and T. J. Anderson, this collection covers a broad range of styles and approaches. Here you will find Busoni's influential \"Sketch of a New Esthetic of Music\"; Partch's exploration of a new notation system; Babbitt's defense of advanced composition in his controversial \"Who Cares If You Listen?\"; and Pauline Oliveros's meditations on sound. Now updated with fifteen new composers including Michael Tippet, Gygy Ligeti, Gunther Schuller, Ben Johnston, Sofia Gubaidulina, and William Bolcom, this important book gathers together forty-nine pieces--many out of print and some newly written for this volume--which serve as a documentary history of twentieth-century music, in theory and practice. Impassioned, provocative, and eloquent, these writings are as exciting and diverse as the music they discuss.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAuthor:\u003c\/b\u003e Elliott Schwartz, Barney Childs, Jim Fox\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-10:\u003c\/b\u003e 0306808196\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-13:\u003c\/b\u003e 9780306808197\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublisher:\u003c\/b\u003e Da Capo Press\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eLanguage:\u003c\/b\u003e English\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublished:\u003c\/b\u003e 03\/22\/1998\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePages:\u003c\/b\u003e 510\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eFormat:\u003c\/b\u003e Paperback\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eWeight:\u003c\/b\u003e 1.66lbs\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eSize:\u003c\/b\u003e 9.02h x 6.02w x 1.25d","brand":"Elliott Schwartz","offers":[{"title":"Paperback","offer_id":43990127804671,"sku":"9780306808197","price":25.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0662\/2982\/9887\/files\/img_445f62b8-a843-4e25-8586-a0a814934c59.jpg?v=1683303155","url":"https:\/\/www.whiterainbookhouse.com\/products\/contemporary-composers-on-contemporary-music-elliott-schwartz-9780306808197","provider":"WR Book House","version":"1.0","type":"link"}