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Experimental music : cage and beyond / Michael Nyman

By: Material type: TextTextSeries: Music in the 20th CenturyPublication details: Cambridge : Cambridge University Press, ©1999Edition: [2nd ed.]Description: xx, 196 p. : ill., ports. ; 25 cmISBN:
  • 9780521653831
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Contents:
Towards (a definition of) experimental music -- Backgrounds -- Inauguration 1950-60: Feldman, Brown, Wolff, Cage -- Seeing, hearing: Fluxus -- Electronic systems -- Indeterminacy 1960-70: Ichiyanagi, Ashley, Wolff, Cardew, Scratch Orchestra -- Minimal music, determinacy and the new tonality
Summary: This account of experimental music from 1950 to 1970 traces the revolutionary attitudes that were developed towards concepts of time, space, sound, and composer/performer responsibility. It was within this tradition that musical minimalism began.
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Towards (a definition of) experimental music -- Backgrounds -- Inauguration 1950-60: Feldman, Brown, Wolff, Cage -- Seeing, hearing: Fluxus -- Electronic systems -- Indeterminacy 1960-70: Ichiyanagi, Ashley, Wolff, Cardew, Scratch Orchestra -- Minimal music, determinacy and the new tonality

This account of experimental music from 1950 to 1970 traces the revolutionary attitudes that were developed towards concepts of time, space, sound, and composer/performer responsibility. It was within this tradition that musical minimalism began.

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