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Composer Michael Nyman's classic 1974 account of the postwar experimental tradition in music.

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'Nyman's book remains a privileged window into that strange world, and its republication will be a boon to a new generation.' BBC Music Magazine
'… a welcome reissue of the book … Above all, Experimental Music is a useful source book for a period of radicalism in musical practice in which the rule was to break the rules.' Music Teacher

Table of Contents
Foreword Brian Eno; Preface to the second edition; 1. Towards (a definition of) experimental music; 2. Backgrounds; 3. Inauguration 1950–60: Feldman, Brown, Wolff, Cage; 4. Seeing, hearing: Fluxus; 5. Electronic systems; 6. Indeterminacy 1960–70: Ichiyanagai, Ashley, Wolff, Cardew, Scratch Orchestra; 7. Minimal music, determinacy and the new tonality; Discography Robert Worby.

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      Publisher: Cambridge University Press
      Publication Date: Publication Date: 7/29/1999 12:00:00 AM
      ISBN13: 9780521653831, 978-0521653831
      ISBN10: 0521653835
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      Description

      Book Synopsis
      Composer Michael Nyman's classic 1974 account of the postwar experimental tradition in music.

      Trade Review
      'Nyman's book remains a privileged window into that strange world, and its republication will be a boon to a new generation.' BBC Music Magazine
      '… a welcome reissue of the book … Above all, Experimental Music is a useful source book for a period of radicalism in musical practice in which the rule was to break the rules.' Music Teacher

      Table of Contents
      Foreword Brian Eno; Preface to the second edition; 1. Towards (a definition of) experimental music; 2. Backgrounds; 3. Inauguration 1950–60: Feldman, Brown, Wolff, Cage; 4. Seeing, hearing: Fluxus; 5. Electronic systems; 6. Indeterminacy 1960–70: Ichiyanagai, Ashley, Wolff, Cardew, Scratch Orchestra; 7. Minimal music, determinacy and the new tonality; Discography Robert Worby.

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