Robert Morris

Whistling Blackbird

Essays and Talks on New Music

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Produktbeschreibung

A collection of essays on new music, composers, and issues in American music criticism and aestheticson by composer and music theorist Robert Morris.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Early English Text Society
• Seitenzahl: 442
• Erscheinungstermin: 1. Dezember 2010
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 240mm x 167mm x 33mm
• Gewicht: 830g
• ISBN-13: 9781580463492
• ISBN-10: 1580463495
• Artikelnr.: 29949233

Inhaltsangabe

Preface Acknowledgments Overture: Some Issues Facing the Contemporary
American Composer Part One: Essays on Composers 1. Cage
Contemplating/Contemplating Cage 2. Some Things I Learned (Didn't Learn)
from Milton Babbitt, or Why I Am (Am Not) a Serial Composer 3. Not Only
Rows in Richard Swift's Roses Only 4. A Footnote to hasty, Whitehead, and
Plato: More Thoughts on Stefan Wolpe's Music Part Two: Talks on My Music
5. Composing Each Time 6. Why Not Lilacs 7. Cold Mountain Songs 8. Music as
Poetry: A Talk on My Fourteen Little Piano Pieces 9. Nature, Music and
Nature, My Music Outdoors Part Three: Essays on Criticism and Aesthetics
10. Aspects of Confluence between Western Art Music and Ethnomusicology 11.
Musical Form, Expectation, Attention, and Quality 12. Autocommentary:
Thoughts on Music Theory at the Millenium 13. Thinking about Musical Time
Appendixes Notes Bibliography Index