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Description:This unusual book is a report from the International Conference of Composers held at the Stratford Festival, Stratford, Canada, in the late summer of 1960. The conference itself was a daring idea and brought together a varied group of leading composers officially representing a large number of countries. The composers attending work in a variety of styles, traditional and new, and the papers and discussions reported in this book thus give a fascinating opportunity to the reader to overhear their agreements and disagreements about such lively topics as the modern composer's relation to the musical audience, the appropriate training for the musical student of today, the composer and the performer and contemporary musical idioms: serialism, jazz, electronic music.This is an important book because because of the comprehensive and stimulating picture it gives of the artists' own views of their work and their audience, of the musical ideas they wish to express and the forms they wish to use for this expression. The book is a statement of divergencies rather than of conclusions. It is a composite picture of the state of contemporary music, an gives, in their own words, the views of such leading composers on the international scene today as Ernst Krenek, Edgard Varèse, Karl-Birger Blomdahl, Luciano Berio , George Rochberg, Gunther Schuller and Henri Dutilleux, and of such non composers as the United States critic Alfred Frankenstein and the Canadian electronic physicist Hugh LeCaine. It is a prime source of articulate opinion on current musical developments. (from cover flap)We have made it easy for you to find a PDF Ebooks without any digging. And by having access to our ebooks online or by storing it on your computer, you have convenient answers with The Modern Composer and His World. To get started finding The Modern Composer and His World, you are right to find our website which has a comprehensive collection of manuals listed.
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Pages: 170

Format: PDF, EPUB & Kindle Edition

Publisher: University of Toronto Press

Release: 1961

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Description: This unusual book is a report from the International Conference of Composers held at the Stratford Festival, Stratford, Canada, in the late summer of 1960. The conference itself was a daring idea and brought together a varied group of leading composers officially representing a large number of countries. The composers attending work in a variety of styles, traditional and new, and the papers and discussions reported in this book thus give a fascinating opportunity to the reader to overhear their agreements and disagreements about such lively topics as the modern composer's relation to the musical audience, the appropriate training for the musical student of today, the composer and the performer and contemporary musical idioms: serialism, jazz, electronic music.This is an important book because because of the comprehensive and stimulating picture it gives of the artists' own views of their work and their audience, of the musical ideas they wish to express and the forms they wish to use for this expression. The book is a statement of divergencies rather than of conclusions. It is a composite picture of the state of contemporary music, an gives, in their own words, the views of such leading composers on the international scene today as Ernst Krenek, Edgard Varèse, Karl-Birger Blomdahl, Luciano Berio , George Rochberg, Gunther Schuller and Henri Dutilleux, and of such non composers as the United States critic Alfred Frankenstein and the Canadian electronic physicist Hugh LeCaine. It is a prime source of articulate opinion on current musical developments. (from cover flap)We have made it easy for you to find a PDF Ebooks without any digging. And by having access to our ebooks online or by storing it on your computer, you have convenient answers with The Modern Composer and His World. To get started finding The Modern Composer and His World, you are right to find our website which has a comprehensive collection of manuals listed.
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