What Music Did: The Story of Numerocracy in the West

Author:   Tony Conrad ,  Patrick Nickleson
Publisher:   The University of Michigan Press
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Pages:   464
Publication Date:   16 March 2026
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Author:   Tony Conrad ,  Patrick Nickleson
Publisher:   The University of Michigan Press
Imprint:   The University of Michigan Press
Weight:   0.454kg
ISBN:  

9780472077915


ISBN 10:   0472077910
Pages:   464
Publication Date:   16 March 2026
Audience:   General/trade ,  General
Format:   Hardback
Publisher's Status:   Forthcoming
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Table of Contents

Tony Oursler. Foreword Patrick Nickleson. Editor’s Introduction Tony Conrad. WMD: Preface Chapter 1: Pythagoras, Pt. 1 Chapter 2: Pythagoras, Pt. 2 Chapter 3: Augustine Chapter 4: The Middle Ages and Renaissance Chapter 5: Galilei Chapter 6: Descartes Chapter 7: Maurice Chapter 8: Lully/Louis Chapter 9: Rameau/Rousseau Chapter 10: Helmholtz Notes

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Tony Conrad (1940–2016) was a musician, composer, filmmaker, and teacher. After completing his degree in mathematics at Harvard in 1963, Conrad moved to New York where he collaborated with the director Jack Smith on Flaming Creatures; with La Monte Young, Marian Zazeela, and John Cale in the Theatre of Eternal Music; and with his partner Beverly Grant on a series of important structural films including Coming Attractions and Straight and Narrow. In 1976, Conrad joined the new Media Study Department at SUNY-Buffalo, where he was an influential professor and artist across film, video, public access television, music, protest, and visual art for the rest of his career. Patrick Nickleson is Assistant Professor of Musicology at the University of Alberta, where his work explores theories of authorship, ownership, and collaboration in experimental musics. His past writing on Conrad has been published in Twentieth Century Music, the Journal of the Royal Musical Association, and in his book The Names of Minimalism: Authorship, Art Music, and Historiography in Dispute.

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