| Description |
1 online resource (xxii, 307 pages) : illustrations, music |
| Series |
Routledge research in music ; 10 |
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Routledge research in music ; 10.
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| Contents |
Cover; Half Title; Title Page; Copyright Page; Table of Contents; List of Figures; Preface; Part I Looking Back, Moving Ahead; 1 Not Knowing, the Cart Got in Front; 2 What of the Performers? The Case of the Percussion Group Cincinnati and the Need to Reconsider Percussion Chamber Music Historiography; 3 At Loose Ends with Anticommunication; 4 Writing (at the End) of New Music; Part II Exploration, Discovery, and Illumination; 5 Abstracted Resonance: The Percussion Music of Peter Garland; 6 The Speaking Percussionist as Storyteller; 7 I Drum the Body Electric |
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8 The Search for Self: An Exploration of the Percussion Music of Stuart Saunders SmithPart III Conversing about the Journey; 9 A Conversation with William Winant; 10 Percussive Thoughts; 11 On the Nature of Percussion Masterworks; Part IV Reflections on Paths Traveled; 12 Meandering; 13 Bagatelles; 14 Composing, Thoughts; 15 Letter to a Young Percussionist (Preferences in Percussion, 2010); Contributors; Index |
| Summary |
More than eighty years have passed since Edgard Varèse's catalytic work for percussion ensemble, Ionisation, was heard in its New York premiere. A flurry of pieces for this new medium dawned soon after, challenging the established truths and preferences of the European musical tradition while setting the stage for percussion to become one of the most significant musical advances of the twentieth century. This 'revolution', as John Cage termed it, was a quintessentially modernist movement - an exploration of previously undiscovered sounds, forms, textures, and styles. However, as perc |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references and index |
| Notes |
Print version record |
| Subject |
Percussion music -- 20th century -- History and criticism
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MUSIC -- Musical Instruments -- Piano & Keyboard.
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MUSIC -- Printed Music -- Percussion.
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Percussion music
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| Genre/Form |
Criticism, interpretation, etc.
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| Form |
Electronic book
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| ISBN |
9781317976554 |
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131797655X |
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1306969913 |
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9781306969918 |
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