Stephen Chase

Changing the System: The Music of Christian Wolff (eBook, ePUB)

Redaktion: Thomas, Philip

• Format: ePub

Produktbeschreibung

Christian Wolff is a composer who has followed a distinctive path often at the centre of avant-garde activity working alongside figures such as John Cage, Merce Cunningham, and Cornelius Cardew. In a career spanning sixty years, he has produced a significant and influential body of work that has aimed to address, in a searching and provocative manner, what it means to be an experimental and socially aware artist. This book provides a wide-ranging introduction to a composer often overlooked despite his influence upon many of the major figures in new music since the 1950s from Cage to John Zorn to the new wave of experimentalists across the globe. Music from his earliest compositions of the 1950s, the highly indeterminate scores, the politically-inspired pieces up to the most recent works are discussed in detail, both in relation to their compositional techniques, general aesthetic development, and matters of performance. With a foreword by his close associate Michael Parsons, this is a valuable addition to experimental music literature.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Taylor & Francis
• Seitenzahl: 284
• Erscheinungstermin: 8. April 2016
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9781317168485
• Artikelnr.: 44876325

Autorenporträt

Dr Stephen Chase, Independent scholar and composer, UK; Dr Philip Thomas, Senior Lecturer, University of Huddersfield, UK

Inhaltsangabe

Part I Reception, History
Chapter 1 'Our Webern', MichaelHicks
Chapter 2 Christian Wolff in Darmstadt, 1972 and 1974, Amy C.Beal
Part II The Music
Chapter 3 For Pianist, PhilipThomas
Chapter 4 Mutual Effects, JamesSaunders
Chapter 5 Exercising the ensemble, ChristopherFox
Part III Politics
Chapter 6 Changing the System, DavidRyan
Chapter 7 'There Is Always a Time', StephenChase
Part IV Performance
Chapter 8 Prose Collection, ClemensGresser
Chapter 9 Playing the Game? Five Reflections upon Performing Christian Wolff's Music, PhilipThomas
Chapter 101 List of Works