Interviews with American Composers
Interviews with American Composers

Author: Barney Childs

Publisher:

Published: 2022-01-25

Total Pages: 456

ISBN-13: 9780252043994

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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
American Composers

Author: David Froom

Publisher: Psychology Press

Published: 1994

Total Pages: 214

ISBN-13: 9783718655298

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First Published in 1994. Routledge is an imprint of Taylor & Francis, an informa company.

John Cage
John Cage

Author: David Patterson

Publisher: Routledge

Published: 2013-10-28

Total Pages: 298

ISBN-13: 1136527915

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John Cage seeks to explore the early part of the composer's life and career, concentrating on the pre-chance period between 1933 and 1950 that is crucial to understanding his later work. The essays consider Cage's influences, his evolving aesthetic, and his movement toward ideology that would later shape his work.

Three American Composers
Three American Composers

Author: Edith Borroff

Publisher:

Published: 1986

Total Pages: 320

ISBN-13:

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Traces the power shift from the apprentice/conservatory system of training composers to the university system, which took place in the United States from 1925ó1975. Describes how this change influenced the works of three renowned American composers: Irwin Fischer, Ross Lee Finney, and George Crumb.

Reflections of an American Composer
Reflections of an American Composer

Author: Arthur Berger

Publisher: Univ of California Press

Published: 2002-11-28

Total Pages: 288

ISBN-13: 0520232518

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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.

Three New York Composers
Three New York Composers

Author: Karl Kroeger

Publisher: Routledge

Published: 2019-10-23

Total Pages: 175

ISBN-13: 1135601658

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Part of the Music of the NEW AMERICAN NATION Sacred Music From 1780 To 1820 series. The collected works of Lewis Edson (1748-1820) Lewis Edson Jr. (1771-1845) and Nathaniel Billings (fl. 1794-1795

Frontier Figures
Frontier Figures

Author: Beth E. Levy

Publisher: Univ of California Press

Published: 2012-04-18

Total Pages: 471

ISBN-13: 0520952022

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Frontier Figures is a tour-de-force exploration of how the American West, both as physical space and inspiration, animated American music. Examining the work of such composers as Aaron Copland, Roy Harris, Virgil Thomson, Charles Wakefield Cadman, and Arthur Farwell, Beth E. Levy addresses questions of regionalism, race, and representation as well as changing relationships to the natural world to highlight the intersections between classical music and the diverse worlds of Indians, pioneers, and cowboys. Levy draws from an array of genres to show how different brands of western Americana were absorbed into American culture by way of sheet music, radio, lecture recitals, the concert hall, and film. Frontier Figures is a comprehensive illumination of what the West meant and still means to composers living and writing long after the close of the frontier.

Three Questions for Sixty-five Composers
Three Questions for Sixty-five Composers

Author: Bálint András Varga

Publisher: University Rochester Press

Published: 2011

Total Pages: 356

ISBN-13: 1580463797

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Do today's composers draw inspiration from life experiences? What has influenced recent composers? How essential is it for a composer to develop a personal style? This book reveals the spontaneous thoughts of some of the most famous composers from around the world about their own development as composers and their reactions to the outside world.

Latin American Classical Composers
Latin American Classical Composers

Author: Miguel Ficher

Publisher: Scarecrow Press

Published: 2002-10-16

Total Pages: 668

ISBN-13: 1461669111

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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.