Changing the system the music of Christian Wolff
Christian Wolff is a composer who has followed a distinctive path often at the centre of avant-garde activity working alongside figures such as John Cage, Merce Cunningham, and Cornelius Cardew. In a career spanning sixty years, he has produced a significant and influential body of work that has aimed to address, in a searching and provocative manner, what it means to be an experimental and socially aware artist. This book provides a wide-ranging introduction to a composer often overlooked despite his influence upon many of the major figures in new music since the 1950s from Cage to John Zorn
Criticism, interpretation, etc
1 online resource (284 p.)
9781409494058, 9781317168485, 9781315571287, 9781282657670, 9786612657672, 9781409406914, 1409494055, 1317168488, 1315571285, 1282657674, 6612657677, 1409406911
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Cover; Contents; List of Music Examples; Notes on Contributors; Foreword; Preface; Part I Reception, History; 1 'Our Webern': Cage and Feldman's Devotion to Christian Wolff; 2 Christian Wolff in Darmstadt, 1972 and 1974; Part II The Music; 3 For Pianist: The Solo Piano Music; 4 Mutual Effects: Organization and Interaction in the Orchestral Music of Christian Wolff; 5 Exercising the ensemble: Some Thoughts on the Later Music of Christian Wolff; Part III Politics; 6 Changing the System: Indeterminacy and Politics in the Early 1970s; 7 'There Is Always a Time': Words, Music, Politics and Voice Part IV Performance8 Prose Collection: The Performer and Listener as Co-Creator; 9 Playing the Game? Five Reflections upon Performing Christian Wolff's Music; List of Works; Bibliography; Discography; Index
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English