{"product_id":"contemporary-composers-on-contemporary-music-9780306808197","title":"Contemporary Composers On Contemporary Music","description":"\u003cb\u003eBook Synopsis\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\"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, vernac\"\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eTable of Contents\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003eEuropean Music Before 1945 * From Sketch of a New Esthetic of Music Ferruccio Busoni [18661924]   * From Monsieur Croche the Dilettante Hater Claude Debussy [18621918]   * Three Brief Epigrams Erik Satie [18661925]   * From Notes Without Music Darius Milhaud [18921974]   * Man and Music Ernest Bloch [18801959]     * From Dialogues and a Diary Igor Stravinsky [18821971]   * Why is Schoenbergs Music so Hard to Understand? Alban Berg [18851935]   * The Influence of Peasant Music on Modern Music Bla Bartk [18811945]   * From A Composers World Paul Hindemith [18951963]   * From Autobiography, Articles, Reminiscences Serge Prokofiev [18921953]   * Music and the Times Dmitri Shostakovitch [19061975]   * From The Making of Music Ralph Vaughan Williams [18721958]   * On Winning the First Aspen Award Benjamin Britten [19131976]    Experimental Music and American Developments * Preface to 114 Songs Charles Ives [18741954]   * From New Musical Resources Henry Cowell [18971965]   * The Creative Mind and the Interpretive Mind Aaron Copland [19001990)   * FolksongAmerican Big Business Roy Harris [18981979]   * On Waiting for a Libretto Samuel Barber [19101981]   * From The State of Music Virgil Thomson [18961989]   * The Musical Impulse Roger Sessions [18961985]   * The Liberation of Sound Edgard Varse [18851964]   * Experiments in Notation Harry Partch [19011974]   * Space as an Essential Aspect of Musical Composition Harry Brant [1913 ]   * Who Cares if You Listen? Milton Babbit [1916 ]   * Some Random Remarks about Electronic Music Otto Luening [19001996]   * Shop Talk by an American Composer Elliot Carter [1908 ]   * Thinking Twice Stefan Wolpe [19021972]   * Towards a Re-merger in Music Chou Wen-Chung [1923 ]   * Grand and Not So Grand Jack Beeson [1921 ]   * The Changing ComposerPerformer Relationship: A Monologue and a Dialogue Lukas Foss [1922 ]   * John CageInterview with Roger Reynolds John Cage [19121992]   * Composers, Performance and Publications; Music, Electronic and Performed Richard Maxfield [19241969]   * Morton FeldmanAn Interview with Robert Ashley, August, 1964 Morton Feldman [19261987]   * Charles WuorinenAn Interview with Barney Childs Charles Wuorinen [1938 ]    Postmodernism and Recent Concerns * Five Revolutions Since 1950 Karlheinz Stockhausen [1928 ]   * Dreaming of Things to Come... Michael Tippet [1905 ]   * Gyrgy LigetiAn interview with Joseph Husler, 1968\/69 Gyrgy Ligeti [1923 ]   * On the Third String Quartet George Rochberg [1918 ]   * Third Stream Third Stream Revisited Gunther Shuller [1925 ]   * Some sound Observations Pauline Oliveros [1932 ]   * Music as a Gradual Process Steve Reich [1936 ]   * T. J. AndersonAn Interview with Elliot Schwartz T. J. Anderson [1928 ]   * Maximum Clarity Ben Johnston [1926 ]   * On Criticism Cornelius Cardew [19361981]   * Sofia GubaidulinaAn Interview with Dorothea Redepenning, 1992 SOfia Gubaidulina [1931 ]   * I am Sitting in a Room (1969) Alvin Lucier [1931 ]   * Anthony BraxtonAn Interview with Graham Lock, 1988 Anthony Braxton [1945 ]   * Composing a Viable (if transitory Self): Brian Ferneyhough in Conversation with James Boros Brian Fenneyhough [1943 ]   * From Something About Music William Bolcom [1938 ]","brand":"The Perseus Books Group","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":51767289807191,"sku":"9780306808197","price":19.8,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"url":"https:\/\/bookcurl.com\/products\/contemporary-composers-on-contemporary-music-9780306808197","provider":"Book Curl","version":"1.0","type":"link"}