Robert Morris is a composer with a long and active career writing music who has through his writings about music established himself as a major figure in the field of music theory. The Whistling Blackbird both reveals how his renown came about and illustrates vividly why he deserves such recognition as a theorist. One hopes that it will prompt further ... Read moreserious interest in him as a composer. Each essay reaches far beyond the workshop to engage reasons why the music was made at all. Since much of the book seems to be engaged with placing surprising ideas in conversation with each other, the reader will feel invited to join in.
Andrew Mead
AMERICAN MUSIC
These wide-ranging essays [are drawn] from a lifetime of thinking and teaching about all music, [including] John Cage, Milton Babbitt, [and] 'the confluence between Western art music and ethnomusicology.'. . . The book holds together nicely, not least because of Morris's direct, informative writing style.
William K. Kearns
CHOICE
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