The Muse That Sings

Composers Speak about the Creative Process

AvAnn McCutchan

Inbunden, Engelska, 1999

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Beskrivning

A collection of interviews with 25 various American composers, born between 1930 and 1960, who explain how they think in sound, mould musical ideas, and ultimately transfer sonic creations to the printed page.

Produktinformation

Utgivningsdatum:1999-12-02
Mått:168 x 239 x 21 mm
Vikt:603 g
Format:Inbunden
Språk:Engelska
Antal sidor:288
Förlag:OUP USA
ISBN:9780195127072

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Musikvetenskap inom Kultur
Musikböcker inom Kultur
Klassisk musik, konstmusik och orkestermusik inom Kultur

Mer om författaren

Ann McCutchan is the author of six books, most recently The Life She Wished to Live: A Biography of Marjorie Kinnan Rawlings, Author of The Yearling, released in 2021 by W.W. Norton. As well, she is a busy lyricist and librettist, with eight commissioned works, most recently The Dreamer, an opera based on an original story with composer Mark Alan Taggart, premiered by the East Carolina University Opera Studio in 2021. Her personal essays have appeared in various journals and The Best American Spiritual Writing.

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McCutchan's approachable, non-specialist book provides necessarily open-ended and ambiguous glimpses into the ineffable mysteries of musical composition.

Innehållsförteckning

Alphabetical List of Composers Foreword by Leonard Slatkin (Music Director, National Symphony Orchestra) Introduction 1: Eric Stokes (b. 1930) 2: Steve Reich (b. 1936) 3: William Bolcom (b. 1938) 4: John Corigliano (b. 1938) 5: John Harbison (b. 1938) 6: Joan Tower (b. 1938) 7: John Adams (b. 1947) 8: Claude Baker (b. 1948) 9: Dan Welcher (b. 1948) 10: Daniel S. Godfrey (b. 1949) 11: Fred Lerdahl (b. 1949) 12: Shulamit Ran (b. 1949) 13: Christopher Rouse (b. 1949) 14: Steven Stucky (b. 1949) 15: Libby Larsen (b. 1950) 16: Lois V Vierk (b. 1951) 17: John Zorn (b. 1953) 18: Michael Daugherty (b. 1954) 19: James Mobberley (b. 1954) 20: Bruce Adolphe (b. 1955) 21: Bright Sheng (b. 1955) 22: Richard Danielpour (b. 1956) 23: David Lang (b. 1957) 24: Sebastian Currier (b. 1959) 25: Aaron Jay Kernis (b. 1960)