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Author:   Christian Wolff (Professor of Music & Classics, Emeritus, Professor of Music & Classics, Emeritus, Dartmouth College) ,  George E. Lewis (Edwin H. Case Professor of American Music, Edwin H. Case Professor of American Music, Columbia University)
Publisher:   Oxford University Press Inc
Imprint:   Oxford University Press Inc
Dimensions:   Width: 23.60cm , Height: 2.30cm , Length: 15.70cm
Weight:   0.655kg
ISBN:  

9780190222895

ISBN 10:   0190222891
Pages:   368
Publication Date:   30 March 2017
Audience:   General/trade ,  General
Format:   Hardback
Publisher's Status:   Active
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Table of Contents

"Author's Preface Acknowledgments 1. (One of) 4 musicians at work (1952) 2. On Webern (1955) 3. New and Electronic Music (1958) 4. On Form (1960) 5. Questions (1964) 6. Electricity and Music (1968) 7. Interview with Victor Schonfield (1969) 8. Fragments to make up an interview (1970-1) 9. For Merce (1975) 10. Conversation with Walter Zimmermann (1976) 11. Frederic Rzewski, ""The People United will Never Be Defeated"" 12. On Political Texts and New Music (1980) 13. Cornelius Cardew memorial text (1981) 14. On Notation (1984) 15. Open to Whom and to What (1987) 16. Morton Feldman memorial text (1987) 17. On Morton Feldman's ""Piano Piece 1952"" (1988, 1995) 18. Text on Morton Feldman's music (1990) 19. What is Our Work? (1990) 20. Text on Charles Ives (1990) 21. Keith Rowe, ""A dimension of perfectly ordinary reality"" (1990) 22. On Dieter Schnebel's ""Marsyas"" (1990) 23. Floating rhythm and experimental percussion (1990) 24. Quiet Music (1991) 25. Interview with Cole Gagne (1992) 26. Interview with Markus Trunk (1992) 27. Briefly on Cornelius Cardew and John Cage (1992) 28. John Cage memorial text (1992) 29. Preface to 'John Cage, Morton Feldman: Radio Happenings' (1993) 30. Sketch of a statement (1993) 31. Music - Work - Experiment - Politics (1995) 32. Letter to Suzanne Josek (1996) 33. Thinking of David Tudor (1997) 34. 'Most Material': Evan Parker and Eddie Prevost (1997) 35. Frederic Rzewski and his piano music (2001) 36. Merce Cuningham and CW music (2001) 37. Feldman's String Quartet No. 2 (2002) 38. Earle Brown - Chamber Music (2004) 39. Some Notes on Charles Ives and Politics (2004) 40. On day to day composing work (2004) 41. Remembering Grete Sultan (2005) 42. On Music with Cunningham Events (2008) 43. Some recollections of Arthur Russell (2009) 44. On verbal notation (2009) 45. Experimental Music around 1950 and Some Consequences (2009) 46. Interview with James Saunders (2009) 47. Crossings of Experimental Music and Greek Tragedy (2010) 48. About Merce (2010) 49. What can I still say about John Cage? (2012) 50. Thinking yet again about John Cage (2012) 51. The first performance of Erik Satie's 'Vexations' (2012) 52. Robyn Schulkowsky's 'Armadillo' (2013) 53. Selected program notes"

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For those who claim that writing about music is a futile enterprise, and that perhaps a composer should not write about their own music, let this book dispel any doubts. Christian Wolff's life, music, and thought exemplify how complexity, imagination, vision, and an ear for sounds previously unheard can be combined seamlessly, creating a body of work unlike any other before (and, I expect, after) him. For those of us who have always wondered: 'how does he do it?', this new book provides an essential and welcome piece of the puzzle. We still won't know, but the clarity, depth and honesty of Wolff's writing brings us, tantalizingly, a bit closer to the answer. * Larry Polansky, composer and performer * This long-anticipated book is a tremendously valuable resource for studies in contemporary American music since the 1950s. In addition to being one of our nation's most original and prolific composers, Wolff is an intelligent, articulate, elegant writer. * Amy C. Beal, author of New Music, New Allies: American Experimental Music in West Germany from the Zero Hour to Reunification *

Author Information

Christian Wolff is a former Professor of Classics and Music at Dartmouth College, now a full-time composer and sometime performer. Born in Nice, France, he has lived and worked primarily in the United States since 1941, where he studied composition briefly with John Cage in 1950. He was a pioneering member of the ""New York School"" of composition in the 1950's and 60's and with Cage, Morton Feldman, Earle Brown and David Tudor produced a range of experimental music that maintains a notable and still evolving presence. Wolff has received awards and grants from the American Academy and National Institute of Arts and Letters, the Ford Foundation, DAAD Berlin, the Asian Cultural Council, the Fromm Foundation, the Foundation for Contemporary Performance Arts and the Mellon Foundation, and is a member of the Akademie der Kuenste in Berlin and the American Academy of Arts and Sciences. George E. Lewis is Edwin H. Case Professor of American Music at Columbia University.

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