Thinking Sound Music
The Life and Works of Robert Erickson
Published on 1. September 2010
Book
Hardback
278 pages
978-0-914913-33-7 (ISBN)
Description
Robert Erickson's music bristles with the quintessential virtues of modernist American composers: intelligence, good humor, lyricism, rich sonorities, inventive sound-colors. It is firmly rooted in a thorough understanding of all musics now available, from ancient Greece to John Cage, yet it speaks with a characteristically American voice, direct and good-natured, attuned to the vernacular, never condescending to its audiences.
Reviews / Votes
Shere is a persuasive advocate; he not only writes well and engagingly about Erickson's life and works but sketches a history of his professional milieu, the West Coast New Music scene, over three decades. This larger picture fills in some gaps in conventional views of American music. * CHOICE *More details
Series
Language
English
Place of publication
Lanham, MD
United States
Publishing group
Scarecrow Press
Dimensions
Height: 233 mm
Width: 157 mm
Thickness: 27 mm
Weight
699 gr
ISBN-13
978-0-914913-33-7 (9780914913337)
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