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Title: Experimental Music Condition: New Subtitle: Cage and Beyond EAN: 9780521653831 ISBN: 9780521653831 Publisher: Cambridge University Press Format: Paperback Type: Paperback Release Date: 29/07/1999 Language: English Country/Region of Manufacture: GB Item Height: 244mm Item Length: 173mm Item Width: 15mm Item Weight: 374g Author: Michael Nyman Contributor: Brian Eno (Foreword by) Genre: Music Dance & Theatre Book Series: Music in the Twentieth Century Release Year: 1999 Description: Michael Nyman's book is a first-hand account of experimental music from 1950 to 1970. First published in 1974, it has remained the classic text on a significant form of music making and composing which developed alongside, and partly in opposition to, the post-war modernist tradition of composers such as Boulez, Berio, or Stockhausen. The experimentalist par excellence was John Cage whose legendary 4' 33'' consists of four minutes and thirty three seconds of silence to be performed on any instrument. Such pieces have a conceptual rather than purely musical starting point and radically challenge conventional notions of the musical work. Nyman's book traces the revolutionary attitudes that were developed towards concepts of time, space, sound, and composer/performer responsibility. It was within the experimental tradition that the seeds of musical minimalism were sown and the book contains reference to the early works of Reich, Riley, Young, and Glass. Missing Information?
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