Maximum Clarity And Other Writings on Music - Rilegato

Johnston, Ben

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ISBN 10: 0252030982 ISBN 13: 9780252030987

Casa editrice: Univ of Illinois Pr, 2006

Riassunto

Described by New York Times critic John Rockwell as “one of the best non-famous composers this country has to offer,” Ben Johnston reconceives familiar idioms--ranging from jazz to Southern hymns--using just intonation. Johnston studied with Darius Milhaud, Harry Partch, and John Cage, and is best known for his String Quartet No. 4, a complex series of variations on Amazing Grace. This volume reveals he is also a truly literate composer, who writes and speaks about music with eloquence and charm. “Maximum Clarity” and Other Writings on Music spans forty years and brings together forty-one of Johnston’s most important writings, including many rare and several previously unpublished selections. They include position papers, theoretical treatises, program notes, historical reflections, lectures, excerpts from interviews, and letters, and they cover a broad spectrum of concerns--from the technical exegesis of microtonality to the personal and the broadly humanistic. The volume concludes with a discography of all commercially available recordings of Johnston’s music.

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L'autore:

Ben Johnston taught theory and composition from 1951 to 1984 at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign School of Music. Now retired, he lives in Rocky Mount, North Carolina. Bob Gilmore is a reader in musicology at Dartington College of Arts in England. He is the author of Harry Partch: A Biography.

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Book by Ben Johnston

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• Editore: Univ of Illinois Pr
• Data di pubblicazione: 2006
• ISBN 10: 0252030982
• ISBN 13: 9780252030987
• Rilegatura: Copertina rigida
• Numero di pagine: 275
• Redattore: Gilmore Bob