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- Title: Talking Music: Conversations with John Cage, Philip Glass, Laurie Anderson, and Five Generations of American Experimental Composers.
- Author: William Duckworth.
- Published by Schirmer Books, an imprint of Simon & Schuster Macmillan Publishing, New York, USA.
- © 1995 by Schirmer Books.
- ISBN: 0-02-870823-7.
Contents
ix Acknowledgments.
xi Introduction.
003 John Cage.
029 Conlon Nancarrow.
052 Milton Babbit.
094 Lou Harrison.
121 Ben Johnston.
159 Pauline Oliveros.
179 Christian Wolff.
209 La Monte Young.
266 Terry Riley.
290 Steve Reich.
318 Philip Glass.
345 Meredith Monk.
368 Laurie Anderson.
389 "Blue" Gene Tyranny.
418 Glenn Branca.
444 John Zorn.
477 Index.Total Pages 489.
Notes
ABOUT THE AUTHOR William Duckworth is a well-regarded modern composer, he has written several award-winning pieces, including "The Time Curve Preludes" and "Southern Harmony." He is also the author of a best-selling theory text, as well as coeditor of John Cage at 75.
He is currently professor of music at Bucknell University
ABOUT THE BOOK From John Cage-perhaps the 20th century's best-known avant-garde composer, and the spiritual godfather of the genre-to John Zorn, one of the most recent innovators, contemporary music has had many shapes and many voices. In Talking Music, William Duckworth examines the creativity and development of experimental music through interviews with 17 of these musicians. By allowing them to tell the stories behind their art and their lives, he reveals the minds and hearts of contemporary composers-the struggles, the personal lives, the aesthetic goals, and the influences behind the music they have created.
Beginning with a conversation with John Cage, and moving through in-depth interviews conducted over the last ten years with Milton Babbitt, Pauline Oliveros, Meredith Monk, Steve Reich, Terry Riley, and "Blue" Gene Tyranny, among others, Duckworth has prepared an accessible, entertaining oral history of experimental music. Several of his subjects rarely, if ever, speak to interviewers; yet here they are more than forthcoming about their lives' work. With such an unprecedented, comprehensive range of composers, styles, and information, Talking Music is not just a collection of interviews, but a place to discover both the origins and the future of one of the most unique and interesting musical genres of our time.
"Lengthy, original interviews . . . The profiles are sympathetic, informed and lucid, teasing a remarkable quantity of information, even emotion, out of people. . . Duckworth's enthusiasm and understanding help to make them all more comprehensible."-Publishers Weekly
". . . A series of fascinating interviews. . . Serious and casual students of modern music will find this book greatly enjoyable . . . Duckworth has an engaging, interrogative style, and the composers all emerge as compelling, courageous, and mostly quite likeable creative artists."-Library Journal
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