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Music 109: Notes on Experimental Music (Paperback) (ISBN-13: 9780819574923)
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Alvin Lucier
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xAn 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.
Author: Alvin Lucier
ISBN-10: 0819574929
ISBN-13: 9780819574923
Publisher: Wesleyan University Press
Language: English
Published: 08/28/2014
Pages: 232
Format: Paperback
Weight: 0.69lbs
Size: 8.49h x 5.57w x 0.38d
By Alvin Lucier
xALVIN 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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