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Experimental Music: Cage and Beyond
Michael Nyman
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Description for Experimental Music: Cage and Beyond
Paperback. Composer Michael Nyman's classic 1974 account of the postwar experimental tradition in music. Series: Music in the Twentieth Century. Num Pages: 218 pages, 67 b/w illus. BIC Classification: 3JJPG; 3JJPK; AVGC6. Category: (G) General (US: Trade); (P) Professional & Vocational; (U) Tertiary Education (US: College). Dimension: 246 x 176 x 11. Weight in Grams: 386. Cage and Beyond. Series: Music in the Twentieth Century. 216 pages, 67 b/w illus. Composer Michael Nyman's classic 1974 account of the postwar experimental tradition in music. Cateogry: (G) General (US: Trade); (P) Professional & Vocational; (U) Tertiary Education (US: College). BIC Classification: 3JJPG; 3JJPK; AVGC6. Dimension: 246 x 176 x 11. Weight: 430.
Michael Nyman's book is a first-hand account of experimental music from 1950 to 1970. First published in 1974, it has remained the classic text on a significant form of music making and composing which developed alongside, and partly in opposition to, the post-war modernist tradition of composers such as Boulez, Berio, or Stockhausen. The experimentalist par excellence was John Cage whose legendary 4' 33'' consists of four minutes and thirty three seconds of silence to be performed on any instrument. Such pieces have a conceptual rather than purely musical starting point and radically challenge conventional notions of the musical work. ... Read more
Michael Nyman's book is a first-hand account of experimental music from 1950 to 1970. First published in 1974, it has remained the classic text on a significant form of music making and composing which developed alongside, and partly in opposition to, the post-war modernist tradition of composers such as Boulez, Berio, or Stockhausen. The experimentalist par excellence was John Cage whose legendary 4' 33'' consists of four minutes and thirty three seconds of silence to be performed on any instrument. Such pieces have a conceptual rather than purely musical starting point and radically challenge conventional notions of the musical work. ... Read more
Product Details
Publisher
Cambridge University Press
Number of pages
216
Format
Paperback
Publication date
1999
Series
Music in the Twentieth Century
Condition
New
Weight
398g
Number of Pages
218
Place of Publication
Cambridge, United Kingdom
ISBN
9780521653831
SKU
V9780521653831
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Reviews for Experimental Music: Cage and Beyond
'Nyman's book remains a privileged window into that strange world, and its republication will be a boon to a new generation.' BBC Music Magazine '… a welcome reissue of the book … Above all, Experimental Music is a useful source book for a period of radicalism in musical practice in which the rule was to break the rules.' Music ... Read more