Contemporary composers on contemporary music / Edited by Elliott Schwartz and Barney Childs.
| Author/creator | Schwartz, Elliott compiler. |
| Other author | Childs, Barney. |
| Format | Book |
| Edition | [1st ed.]. |
| Publication Info | New York : Holt, Rinehart and Winston, [1967] |
| Description | xxi, 375 pages : illustrations, music ; 24 cm |
| Subjects |
| Contents | European music before 1945. From "sketch of a new esthetic of music" / Ferruccio Busoni -- From "Monsieur Croche the dilettante hater" / Claude Debussy -- Three brief epigrams / Erik Satie -- From "Notes without music" / Darius Milhaud -- Man and music / Ernest Bloch -- From "Dialogues and a diary" / Igor Stravinsky -- Why is Schoenberg's music so hard to understand? / Alban Berg -- The influence of peasant music on modern music / Bela Bartok -- From "A composer's world" / Paul Hindemith -- From "Autobiography, articles, reminiscences" / Serge Prokofiev -- Music and the times / Dmitri Shostakovitch -- From "The making of music" / Ralph Vaughan Williams -- On winning the first Aspen award / Benjamin Britten -- Experimental music and recent american developments. From "New musical resources" / Henry Cowell -- The creative mind and the interpretive mind / Aaron Copland -- Folksong-American big business / Roy Harris -- On waiting for a libretto / Samuel Barber -- From "The state of music" / Virgil Thomson -- The musical impulse / Roger Sessions -- The liberation of sound / Edgard Varese -- Experiments in notation / Harry Partch -- Space as an essential aspect of musical composition / Henry Brant -- Who cares if you listen? / Milton Babbitt -- Some random remarks about electronic music / Otto Luening -- Shop talk by an American composer / Elliott Carter -- Thinking twice / Stefan Wolpe -- Towards a re-merger in music / Chou Wen-Chung -- Grand and not so grand / Jack Beeson -- The changing composer - performer relationship: a monologue and a dialogue / Lukas Foss -- Interview with Roger Reynolds / John Cage -- Composers, performance and publications music, electronic and performed / Richard Maxfield -- An interview with Robert Ashley, August 1964 / Morton Feldman -- An interview with Barney Childs, 1962 / Charles Wuorinen. |
| Abstract | This anthology of essays, interviews, and autobiographical pieces provides an invaluable overview of the evolution of contemporary music?from chromaticism, serialism, and indeterminacy to jazz, vernacular, electronic, and non-Western influences. Featuring classic essays by Stravinsky, Stockhausen, and Reich, as well as writings by lesser-known but equally innovative composers such as Jack Beeson, Richard Maxfield, and T. J. Anderson, this collection covers a broad range of styles and approaches. |
| Local note | Little-343618--3051310499743 |
| Bibliography note | Includes bibliographical references. |
| Genre/form | Music. |
| LCCN | 66025594 |