[PDF] The Boulez Cage Correspondence eBook

Author : Pierre Boulez
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 192 pages
File Size : 12,63 MB
Release : 1993
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 9780521485586

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A study of two of the greatest composers of the twentieth century through their correspondence, now available for the first time in English in a paperback edition.

Author : John Cage
Publisher : Wesleyan University Press
Page : 673 pages
File Size : 18,76 MB
Release : 2013-10-22
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 0819575925

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This annotated selection of more than five hundred letters by the groundbreaking composer and avant-garde icon covers every phase of his career. This volume reveals the intimate life of John Cage with all the intelligence, wit, and inventiveness that made him such an important composer and performer. The missives range from lengthy reports of his early trips to Europe in the 1930s through his years with the dancer Merce Cunningham. They shed new light on his growing eminence as an iconic performance artist of the American avant-garde. Written in Cage’s singular voice—by turns profound, irreverent, and funny—these letters reveal Cage’s passionate interest in people, ideas, and the arts. They include correspondence with Peter Yates, David Tudor, and Pierre Boulez, among many others. Readers will enjoy Cage's commentary about the people and events of a transformative time in the arts, as well as his meditations on the very nature of art. This volume presents an extraordinary portrait of a complex, brilliant man who challenged and changed the artistic currents of the twentieth century.

Author : Martin Iddon
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 29,29 MB
Release : 2022-03-24
Category : Music
ISBN : 9781108703178

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The correspondence between composer John Cage and Peter Yates represents the third and final part of Cage's most significant exchanges of letters, following those with Pierre Boulez and with David Tudor. Martin Iddon's book is the first volume to collect the complete extant correspondence with his critical friend, thus completing the 'trilogy' of Cage correspondence published by Cambridge. By bringing together more than 100 letters, beginning in 1940 and continuing until 1971, Iddon reveals the dialogue within which many of Cage's ideas were first forged and informed, with particular focus on his developing attitudes to music criticism and aesthetics. The correspondence with Yates represents precisely, in alignment with Cage's fastidious neatness, the part of his letter writing in which he engages most directly with the last part of his famous tricolon, 'composing's one thing, performing's another, listening's a third'.

Author : Martin Iddon
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 355 pages
File Size : 12,66 MB
Release : 2013-04-18
Category : Art
ISBN : 1107033292

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The first full-length English-language discussion of the Darmstadt New Music Courses, showing the rise and fall of the 'Darmstadt School'.

Author : John Cage
Publisher :
Page : 340 pages
File Size : 15,39 MB
Release : 1969
Category : Music
ISBN :

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Manuscripts by 269 composers, with accompanying texts determined by I-Ching chance operations.

Author : David W. Bernstein
Publisher : University of Chicago Press
Page : 322 pages
File Size : 48,47 MB
Release : 2010-06-15
Category : Music
ISBN : 0226044874

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This volume looks at the creative work of the great avant-gardist John Cage from an exciting interdisciplinary perspective, exploring his activities as a composer, performer, thinker, and artist. The essays in this collection grew out of a pivotal gathering during which a spectrum of participants including composers, music scholars, and visual artists, literary critics, poets, and filmmakers convened to examine Cage's extraordinary artistic legacy. Beginning with David Bernstein's introductory essay on the reception of Cage's music, the volume addresses topics ranging from Cage's reluctance to discuss his homosexuality, to his work as a performer and musician, and his forward-looking, provocative experimentation with electronic and other media. Several of the essays draw upon previously unseen sketches and other source materials. Also included are transcripts of lively panel discussions among some of Cage's former colleagues. Taken together, this collection is a much-needed contribution to the study of one of the most significant American artists of the twentieth century.

Author : Richard Taruskin
Publisher : Univ of California Press
Page : 508 pages
File Size : 38,25 MB
Release : 2010-11-11
Category : Music
ISBN : 0520268059

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"Roth Family Foundation music in America imprint"--Prelim. p.

Author : Peter O'Hagan
Publisher : Taylor & Francis
Page : 365 pages
File Size : 26,87 MB
Release : 2016-09-30
Category : Music
ISBN : 1315517841

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Pierre Boulez's first piano pieces date from his youth, prior to his studies in Paris with Messiaen, and his subsequent meteoric rise to international acclaim as the leader of the musical avant-garde during the 1950s. His most recent published work is a solo piano piece, Une page d’éphéméride, written some sixty years after his first attempts at composition. The piano has remained central to Boulez's creative work throughout his career, and although his renown as a conductor has to some extent overshadowed his other achievements, it was as a performer of his own piano music that his practical gifts first found expression. Peter O'Hagan has given performances of various unpublished piano works by Boulez, including Antiphonie from the Third Sonata and Trois Psalmodies. In this study, he considers Boulez's writing for the piano in the context of the composer's stylistic evolution throughout the course of his development. Each of the principal works is considered in detail, not only on its own terms, but also as a stage in Boulez's ongoing quest to invent radical solutions to the renewal of musical language and to reinvigorate tradition. The volume includes reference to hitherto unpublished source material, which sheds light on his working methods and on the interrelationship between works.