Author: John CagePublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Dance music
Languages : en
Pages :
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Three Dances (1944-45).
Author: John CageThree dances (1944-45)
Author: John CageThree Dances
Author: John CageJohn Cage and Peter Yates
Author: Martin IddonPublisher: Cambridge University Press
ISBN: 1108480063
Category : Literary Collections
Languages : en
Pages : 331
Book Description
The last - and largest - of Cage's most important formative exchanges of letters, discussing music criticism and questions of aesthetics.
The International Cyclopedia of Music and Musicians
Author: Oscar ThompsonPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Music
Languages : en
Pages : 2506
Book Description
Triple Entendre
Author: Herve VanelPublisher: University of Illinois Press
ISBN: 0252095251
Category : Music
Languages : en
Pages : 217
Book Description
Triple Entendre discusses the rise and spread of background music in contexts as diverse as office workplaces, shopping malls, and musical performance. Hervé Vanel examines background music in several guises, beginning with Erik Satie's "Furniture Music" of the late 1910s and early 1920s, which first demonstrated the idea of a music not meant to be listened to and was later considered a precedent to modern, functional background music. Vanel argues that when the Muzak Corporation's commercialized ambient music became a predominant feature of modern life in the 1940s--both as a brand and a genre of background music--it also became a powerful instrument of social engineering in an advanced capitalist society. Different kinds of music were developed to encourage or incite greater productivity in the workplace, more energetic shopping, or more animated socializing. Vanel's discussion culminates in the creative response of the composer John Cage to the pervasiveness and power of background music in contemporary society. Cage neither opposed nor rejected Muzak, but literally answered its challenge by formulating a parallel concept that he called "Muzak-Plus." Forty years after Satie presented his work to general critical puzzlement, Cage saw how background music could be combined with mid-century technology and theories of art and performance to create a participatory soundscape on a scale that Satie could not have envisioned, again reconfiguring the listener's stance to music. By examining the subterranean connections existing between these three formulations of a singular idea, Triple Entendre analyzes and challenges the crucial boundary that separates an artistic concept from its actual implementation in life.
Electronic Inspirations
Author: Jennifer IversonPublisher:
ISBN: 0190868198
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 321
Book Description
For a decimated post-war West Germany, the electronic music studio at the WDR radio in Cologne was a beacon of hope. Jennifer Iverson's Electronic Inspirations: Technologies of the Cold War Musical Avant-Garde traces the reclamation and repurposing of wartime machines, spaces, and discourses into the new sounds of the mid-century studio. In the 1950s, when technologies were plentiful and the need for reconstruction was great, West Germany began to rebuild its cultural prestige via aesthetic and technical advances. The studio's composers, collaborating with scientists and technicians, coaxed music from sine-tone oscillators, noise generators, band-pass filters, and magnetic tape. Together, they applied core tenets from information theory and phonetics, reclaiming military communication technologies as well as fascist propaganda broadcasting spaces. The electronic studio nurtured a revolutionary synthesis of science, technology, politics, and aesthetics. Its esoteric sounds transformed mid-century music and continue to reverberate today. Electronic music--echoing both cultural anxiety and promise--is a quintessential Cold War innovation.
Percussion Assignments for Band & Wind Ensemble
Author: Russ GirsbergerPublisher: Hal Leonard Corporation
ISBN: 9781574630305
Category : Music
Languages : en
Pages : 204
Book Description
(Meredith Music Percussion). This two-volume publication provides guidelines on percussion player and instrument requirements for over 2,000 concert band and wind ensemble works. It contains helpful information for conductors, section leaders, stage managers, equipment managers and ensemble librarians. An incredible compilation for school, college, military, community and professional bands and wind ensembles. (a href="http://youtu.be/OVqEyKf5JnU" target="_blank")Click here for a YouTube video on Percussion Assignments for Band and Wind Ensemble(/a)
Three Dances
Author: Claude GervaisePublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Chamber music
Languages : en
Pages : 2
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