The percussionists art

Steven Schick

ISBN 10: 1580462146 / ISBN 13: 9781580462143

Published by University of Rochester Press, 2006

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: Este libro explora el arte de la percusión a través del análisis y la apreciación de la música de percusión. Steven Schick, con un prólogo de Paul Griffiths, examina la música de percusión estadounidense y la manipulación del material en este género. Incluye referencias bibliográficas e índice, ofreciendo una visión profunda del mundo de la percusión. EAN: 9781580462143 Tipo: Libros Categoría: Arte y Cultura Título: The percussionists art Autor: Steven Schick Idioma: en.

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Bibliographic Details

• Title: The percussionists art
• Publisher: University of Rochester Press
• Publication Date: 2006
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 1580462146
• ISBN 13: 9781580462143
• Binding: Hardcover
• Condition: Bueno

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Synopsis

An engaging, practical, sometimes poetic account of the new world of percussion music -- from the 1930s (Varese, Cage) to today -- by one of its leading practitioners.

In the beginning, there was noise. Drumming, the world's most ancient instrumental tradition, re-emerged explosively in the concert music of the twentieth century as music for percussion, involving drums and many other kinds of noisemakers. The music that resulted has spanned an expressive and intellectual gamut: from Cage, Varèse, and Cowell came the first ear-splitting sounds of an American percussion revolution that began in the 1930s; from Stockhausen,Ferneyhough, and Xenakis we have music whose intellectual demands are matched by a vibrant physicality; Feldman gave us gently unfolding structures; John Luther Adams finds music within the earth itself. The Percussionist's Art: Same Bed, Different Dreams examines this music through the eyes of a performer. The book is a practical philosophy, looking not just at the big ideas behind these and other pieces, but also at how those ideas find expressionin sound. Foreword written by Paul Griffiths.

Steven Schick is the world's leading exponent of solo percussion music involving multiple instruments. He has commissioned more than one hundred pieces from renowned composers including David Lang, Brian Ferneyhough, and Roger Reynolds. He was a founding member of the Bang on a Can All-Stars (1992-2002) and Artistic Director of the Centre International de Percussion de Genève (Switzerland, 2002-4). He teaches at the University of California, San Diego, where he directs the percussion group "red fish blue fish."

About the Author

Steven Schick teaches at the University of California, San Diego, where he directs the percussion group "red fish blue fish."