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Thinking Sound Music
Shere, Charles; Rockwell, John
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Description for Thinking Sound Music
Paperback. Series: Fallen Leaf Monographs in Contemporary Composers. Num Pages: 278 pages. BIC Classification: AVGC6; AVH. Category: (G) General (US: Trade); (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 229 x 152 x 25. Weight in Grams: 454.
Robert Erickson's music bristles with the quintessential virtues of modernist American composers: intelligence, good humor, lyricism, rich sonorities, inventive sound-colors. It is firmly rooted in a thorough understanding of all musics now available, from ancient Greece to John Cage, yet it speaks with a characteristically American voice, direct and good-natured, attuned to the vernacular, never condescending to its audiences.
Robert Erickson's music bristles with the quintessential virtues of modernist American composers: intelligence, good humor, lyricism, rich sonorities, inventive sound-colors. It is firmly rooted in a thorough understanding of all musics now available, from ancient Greece to John Cage, yet it speaks with a characteristically American voice, direct and good-natured, attuned to the vernacular, never condescending to its audiences.
Product Details
Format
Paperback
Publication date
1995
Publisher
Scarecrow Press United States
Number of pages
278
Condition
New
Series
Fallen Leaf Monographs in Contemporary Composers
Number of Pages
278
Place of Publication
Lanham, MD, United States
ISBN
9780914913429
SKU
V9780914913429
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99-15
Reviews for Thinking Sound Music
Shere is a persuasive advocate; he not only writes well and engagingly about Erickson's life and works but sketches a history of his professional milieu, the West Coast New Music scene, over three decades. This larger picture fills in some gaps in conventional views of American music.
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