- Paperback: 510 pages
- Publisher: Da Capo Press Inc; 1st Da Capo Ed., Expanded Ed edition (1 Mar 1998)
- Language English
- ISBN-10: 0306808196
- ISBN-13: 978-0306808197
- Product Dimensions: 22.9 x 15.3 x 3.2 cm
- Average Customer Review: 2.0 out of 5 stars See all reviews (1 customer review)
- Amazon Bestsellers Rank: 327,854 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)
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This anthology of essays, interviews, and autobiographical pieces provides an invaluable overview of the evolution of contemporary music-from chromaticism, serialism, and indeterminacy to jazz, vernacular, electronic, and non-Western influences. Featuring classic essays by Stravinsky, Stockhausen, and Reich, as well as writings by lesser-known but equally innovative composers such as Jack Beeson, Richard Maxfield, and T. J. Anderson, this collection covers a broad range of styles and approaches. Here you will find Busoni's influential "Sketch of a New Esthetic of Music"; Partch's exploration of a new notation system; Babbitt's defense of advanced composition in his controversial "Who Cares If You Listen?"; and Pauline Oliveros's meditations on sound. Now updated with fifteen new composers including Michael Tippet, György Ligeti, Gunther Schuller, Ben Johnston, Sofia Gubaidulina, and William Bolcom, this important book gathers together forty-nine pieces-many out of print and some newly written for this volume-which serve as a documentary history of twentieth-century music, in theory and practice. Impassioned, provocative, and eloquent, these writings are as exciting and diverse as the music they discuss.
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Although he was most famous in his lifetime - and is best remembered today - as a pianist rather than as a composer, Busoni's influence upon the course of music history has been considerable. Read the first page
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2 of 2 people found the following review helpful
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What does "Contemporary" mean? This collection of writings begins with Busoni, who died nealy a century ago, but finds no room for Philip Glass, Boulez or John Adams, let alone Berio, Nono or Scelsi. On the other hand, American composers of the 20th century are amply represented, with pieces specially written for this volume by Stefan Wolpe, Henry Brant and Charles Wuorinen, among others, possibly well-known in their native land, probably worth discovering, but more representative of contemporary music than, say, Dutilleux? Overambitious in scope, it's hard to see who this can satisfy.
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Contemporary Composers on Contemporary Music
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A very nice compilation of essays, speeches, and excerpts. Definitely worth a read if you're interested in composition, later 20th century music, or just music in general. Some essays are insightful, and some are... not, but that's to be expected when you get artists together into one "place."
5 of 8 people found the following review helpful
Comprehensive but not enough; non-selective
5 Oct 2001
Format:Paperback
This ambitious work attempts a comprehensive view of XX Century music as expressed by the composers. Some chapters are esthetically nauseating (e.g. the chapters concerning a couple of straight-line Soviet composers, and some Western charlatans as well), but the historical value of these texts is undeniable. At last could I read the "scandalous" text by Babbit "Who cares if you listen?" However, it seems that in many cases the Editors just put together what was readily available instead of trying further to obtain what would be desirable to publish. Considering that this reviewed edition was published in 1998 maybe some younger composers with appreciable international projection could have been included (e.g. Rihm, Essl). Some very important composers are missing (Berio, Messiaen, Boulez).
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