Soundpieces 2: Interviews with American Composers: Interviews with American Composers

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America's foremost composers _sound off_ on musicians, critics, audiences, publishers, musical education, orchestras, and even fellow composers. Biographical profiles of the composers and complete catalogs of their compositions (with publication information) serve as invaluable reference tools.

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Overview

America's foremost composers _sound off_ on musicians, critics, audiences, publishers, musical education, orchestras, and even fellow composers. Biographical profiles of the composers and complete catalogs of their compositions (with publication information) serve as invaluable reference tools.

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...range of these interviews is remarkable, not only in terms of compositions styles, systems, and philosophies, but also in terms of personalities...recommended for all libraries.....
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The interviews...are collections of well-researched questions that allow the composers to speak freely about their experiences and compositions. The questions posed elicit thoughtful responses that provide unique information....Gagne's volume is a model of the scholarly interview format..

Product Details

  • ISBN-13: 9780810827103
  • Publisher: The Scarecrow Press, Inc.
  • Publication date: 6/28/1993
  • Pages: 568
  • Product dimensions: 6.00 (w) x 9.00 (h) x 1.00 (d)

Table of Contents

Preface
The Interviews
Glenn Branca 1
Anthony Braxton 23
Lucia Dlugoszewski 53
Lou Harrison 85
Alan Hovhaness 115
Anne LeBaron 153
Moondog 175
Pauline Oliveros 207
Terry Riley 233
Ned Rorem 257
Laurie Spiegel 295
Morton Subotnick 333
Sun Ra 365
James Tenney 389
"Blue" Gene Tyranny 413
Christian Wolff 439
La Monte Young & Marian Zazeela 471
John Zorn 507
Appendix: Key To Publishers' Abbreviations 543
Index 545
About the Author 558
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