Percussionist's Art Same Bed, Different Dreams

Name: Percussionist's Art Same Bed, Different Dreams
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ISBN: 9781580462143

ISBN-10: 1580462146

ISBN-13: 9781580462143

Edition: 2006

Authors: Steven Schick, Paul Griffiths

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In the beginning there was noise. Drumming, the world's most ancient instrumental tradition, re-emerged explosively in the concert music of the twentieth century as music for percussion, involving drums and many other kinds of noisemakers. The music that resulted has spanned an expressive and intellectual gamut: From Cage, Varse and Cowell came the first ear-splitting sounds of an American percussion revolution that began in the 1930's; from Stockhausen, Ferneyhough and Xenakis we have music whose intellectual demands are matched by a vibrant physicality; Feldman gave us gently unfolding structures; John Luther Adams finds music within the earth itself. The Percussionist's Art: Same Bed,…

Book details

List price: $39.95
Copyright year: 2006
Publisher: University of Rochester Press
Publication date: 5/15/2006
Binding: Hardcover
Pages: 272
Size: 8.23" wide x 8.31" long x 0.91" tall
Weight: 1.628
Language: English




Because the world is round



Loud Americans : American percussion music under construction



Learning Bone alphabet



The affliction of memory



Face the music : a look at percussion playing



This is not a drum : manipulating the material of percussion music



Same bed, different dreams : a personal epilogue