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Occasional Pieces: Writings and Interviews, 1952-2013
Contributor(s): Wolff, Christian (Author), Lewis, George E. (Foreword by)

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 ISBN: 0190614706     ISBN-13: 9780190614706
Publisher: Oxford University Press
OUR PRICE: $50.35  

Binding Type: Paperback - See All Available Formats & Editions
Published: March 2017
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BISAC Categories:
- Music | Individual Composer & Musician
- Music | History & Criticism - General
Dewey: 780.973
LCCN: 2016028230
Physical Information: 0.9" H x 6.1" W x 9.1" L (1.35 lbs) 368 pages
Features: Bibliography, Index
 
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As one of the original pioneering composers of the American experimental music movement and a well known scholar of classics, Christian Wolff has long been active as a significant thinker and elegant writer on music. With Occasional Pieces, Wolff brings together a collection of his most
notable writings and interviews from 1950 to the present, shining a new light on American music of the second half of the twentieth century. The collection opens with some of his earliest writings on his craft, discussing his own proto-minimalist compositional procedures and the music and ideas that
led him to develop these techniques. Organized chronologically to give a sense of the development of Wolff's thinking on music over the course of his career, some of the pieces delve into connections of music-making to social and political issues, and the concept of indeterminacy as it applies to
performance, while others offer insights into the work of Wolff's notable contemporaries including John Cage, Morton Feldman, Earle Brown, David Tudor, Frederic Rzewski, Cornelius Cardew, Dieter Schnebel, Pauline Oliveros, and Merce Cunningham. An invaluable resource for historians, composers,
listeners and students alike, Occasional Pieces offers a deep dive into Christian Wolff's musical world and brings new light to the history of the American experimental movement.
 
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