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Synopsis
At last there is a companion volume to Scarcrow's landmark primary source on contemporary American, Soundpieces: Interviews with American Composers (1982). Eighteen major composers, representing a wide range of musical attitudes and techniques, speak their minds in SOUNDPIECES 2: Glenn Branca, Anthony Braxton, Lucia Dlugoszewski, Lou Harrison, Alan Hovhaness, Anne LeBaron, Moondog, Pauline Oliveros, Terry Riley, Ned Rorem, Laurie Spiegel, Morton Subotnick, Sun Ra, James Tenney, "Blue" Gene Tyranny, Christian Wolff, La Monte Young, John Zorn.
SOUNDPIECES 2 brings together an unprecedented spectrum of American composers, whose careers range through concert music jazz, and rock. Their musics may be instrumental or electronic, improvised or fully notated, avant-garde or tonal; but all these artists discuss with rare candor the realities of making music in the United States. The composers offer their own experiences in the worlds of performance, recording, and music education; they speak out on the state of music today, the role of criticism, and the work of their colleagues; and they share some of their personal histories, including their encounters with earlier generations of composers and musicians.
This study eliminates the misinformation that has grown up around these artists and their work. Beyond the first-hand accounts shared in the interviews, the book is also an indispensible reference source: Each interview is accompanied by a biographical profile, catalog of compositions (with publication information), discography, and bibliography of the composer's writings. Compiled with the direct participation of the composers, these appendices offer authoritative, up-to-date information not available anywhere else.
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About the Author
Cole Gange (BA, Fordham University) is a writer, musician, and video artist living in New York City. He is the co-author (with Tracy Caras) of Soundpieces: Interviews with American Composers (Scarecrow, 1982) and the author of Sonic Transports: New Frontiers In Our Music (de Falco Books/Samuel French Trade, 1990). His writings about music have also appeared in Option, BMI Magazine, Brutarian, Ear, Op, and Keyboard Classics. He is librettist and co-composer of Plastic Music's opera, Agamemnon (1992), in which he also performs as singer and instrumentalist. Currently he is completing a critical study of the films of John Huston, and collaborating with "Blue" Gene Tyranny on a book about the legendary 19th-century American composer Anthony Philip Heindrich.
Review
...range of these interviews is remarkable, not only in terms of compositions styles, systems, and philosophies, but also in terms of personalities...recommended for all libraries.... (Choice)
The interviews...are collections of well-researched questions that allow the composers to speak freely about their experiences and compositions. The questions posed elicit thoughtful responses that provide unique information....Gagne's volume is a model of the scholarly interview format. (Notes)
Gagne has demonstrated meticulous craftsmanship in the arena of book-making. Each entry is preceded by a fine photograph, a concise biographical statement which includes personal data, education and musical training, interests, outstanding works, and grants received...as much a treatise on the art of music as it is a source of information about the individual artists... (Music Reference Services Quarterly)
...a significant successor to Soundpieces... (Sonneck Society Bulletin)
...Gagne is an excellent interviewer, a master of short questions which lead to long, revealing answers.... (Critics' Choice Syndicate)
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- PublisherScarecrow Press
- Publication date1993
- ISBN 10 0810827107
- ISBN 13 9780810827103
- BindingHardcover
- LanguageEnglish
- Number of pages568
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