Colin McPhee: Composer in Two Worlds (Music in American Life) - Tapa blanda

Oja, Carol J.

 
9780252071805: Colin McPhee: Composer in Two Worlds (Music in American Life)
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ISBN 10: 0252071808 ISBN 13: 9780252071805
Editorial: University of Illinois Press, 2004

Sinopsis

Colin McPhee was a performer, writer, and pioneer among Western composers in turning to Asia for inspiration. A close friend of Aaron Copland, Carlos Chavez, Henry Cowell, and Virgil Thomson, he played a vital role in new music activities in New York in the 1920s. But his most important accomplishments emerged from his devotion to the music of Bali.

After hearing rare recordings of the Balinese gamelan--a percussion orchestra with delicately layered textures and clangorous sounds--McPhee traveled to Bali to learn more. There, he worked closely with Western anthropologists like Margaret Mead and Gregory Bateson. McPhee became a devoted and meticulous chronicler of Balinese musical culture in classic texts like Music of Bali while integrating Balinese and Western music into an imaginative hybrid that anticipated work by John Cage, Lou Harrison, and Steve Reich.

A fascinating portrait of an unconventional artist-scholar, Colin McPhee evocatively looks at key issues in composition and ethnomusicology while describing the profound experience of a composer striving to comprehend a new musical language.

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Carol J. Oja is the William Powell Mason Professor of Music at Harvard University. Her books include Bernstein Meets Broadway: Collaborative Art in a Time of War and Making Music Modern: New York in the 1920s

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Editorial
University of Illinois Press
Año de publicación
2004
Idioma
Inglés
ISBN 10 
0252071808
ISBN 13 
9780252071805
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Número de páginas
376
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9780874747324: Colin McPhee: Composer in Two Worlds (Smithsonian Studies of American Musicians Series)

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ISBN 10:  0874747325 ISBN 13:  9780874747324
Editorial: Smithsonian Books, 1990
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