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Changing the system : the music of Christian Wolff

Philip Thoma (Editor), Stephen Chase (Editor)
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.
Print Book, English, 2010
Ashgate, Farnham, Surrey, England, 2010
Criticism, interpretation, etc
xxiii, 259 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm
9780754666806, 9781409406914, 0754666808, 1409406911
473657701
'Our Webern' : Cage and Feldman's devotion to Christian Wolff / Michael Hicks
Christian Wolff in Darmstadt, 1972 and 1974 / Amy C. Beal
For pianist : the solo piano music / Philip Thomas
Mutual effects : organization and interaction in the orchestral music of Christian Wolff / James Saunders
Exercising the ensemble : some thoughts on the later music of Christian Wolff / Christopher Fox
Changing the system : indeterminacy and politics in the early 1970s / David Ryan
'There is always a time : words, music, politics and voice / Stephen Chase
Prose collection : the performer and listener as co-creator / Clemens Gresser
Playing the game? Five reflections upon performing Christian Wolff's music / Philip Thomas