| Description |
xxv, 416 pages : music ; 24 cm. |
| Series |
Eastman studies in music,
1071-9989 ;
[v. 80]
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Eastman studies in music ; v. 80.
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| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references (pages [395]-401) and index. |
| Contents |
pt. 1. Essays on composers. Cage contemplating, contemplating Cage -- Some things I learned (didn't learn) from Milton Babbitt, or Why I am (am not) a serial composer -- Not only rows in Richard Swift's Roses only -- A footnote to Hasty, Whitehead, and Plato : more thoughts on Stefan Wolpe's music -- -- pt. 2. Talks on my music. Composing Each time -- Why Not lilacs -- Cold Mountain songs -- Music as poetry : a talk on my Fourteen little piano pieces -- Nature, music and nature, my music outdoors -- -- pt. 3. Essays on criticism and aesthetics. Aspects of confluence between Western art music and ethnomusicology -- Musical form, expectation, attention, and quality -- Autocommentary : thoughts on music theory at the Milennium -- Thinking about musical time. |
| Subject |
Music -- United States -- 20th century -- History and criticism.
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Music -- 20th century -- Philosophy and aesthetics.
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| ISBN |
9781580463492 (hardcover : alk. paper) |
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1580463495 (hardcover : alk. paper) |
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