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245 10 a| What's the matter with today's experimental music? :b| organized sound too rarely heard /c| by Leigh Landy.;

300 a| xiv, 308 pages :b| illustrations ;c| 25 cm.;

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490 1 a| Contemporary music studies ;v| v. 4;

504 a| Includes bibliographical references (pages 295-304) and index.;

505 00 g| Part 1.t| Introduction.t| What's it all about - definition, delineation of the area: also the "parameter" question and Cage's double role (composer/philosopher) --g| Part 2.t| Four extra-musical subjects of relevance.t| The media/1 - including a double failure: the media's relative lack of support, the musicians' lack of application and the "perfect" recording --t| Technology - increased knowledge and utilities in our society ... How are these used/translated in today's music? --t| Local music - Have we forgotten regional values? and an overflow of "exotic" goods (recordings) in the supermarket --t| Music and politics - including Henze's salon, Cage's anarchism --g| Part 3.t| Status report: advances within experimental music.t| New notation and instrument practice - Avant-gardism is alive and well - it's the musician who's still suffering/music education and two of Cage's pages --t| Form and structure, (a)tonality and rhythm and our perception's fuse box - the questions of the lost melody, the lot of Xenakis' (dis)order, energy; minimalism's twentieth birthday --t| Sound sources, color - organized sounds, notes and silences or not? --t| The "parameter" space - quadraphonics, the podium, the street, etc. --t| The media/2: how often have you seen your compositions performed? - an often ignored potential --g| Part 4.t| Contemporary music today.t| Survey: one step forwards, two steps backwards? - Including neo [is not equal to] new --t| The maestros of the 50s and 60s in 1989 - Cage, Stockhausen and Xenakis plus Ligeti, Kagel, and others. Also the parameters, "Compositional bearing" and "Formel" --t| Today's music of sounds: Electroacoustic music and extended vocal techniques - e.g. the MIDI influence and coumputer music is number one --t| Fusion music - fortunately the borders with pop and jazz are becoming more and more vague --g| Part 5.t| Conclusion.t| A possible future for experimental music - among other subjects: the influence of the economy, our schools, today's perspectives in experimentation --g| Part 6.t| Work descriptions and clues for the listener.t| Melodylessness and beatlessness - Ligeti's Ten Pieces for Wind Quintet --t| Extened vocal techniques, new instrumental techniques and new virtuosity - Berio's Sequenza III --t| Dealing with highly complex music - for example Carter's Concerto for Orchestra --t| Sophisticated formal structures in experimental music which you can hear if you try - Xenakis' Nomos --t| Music as process - Reich's Piano Phase --t| Available (open) forms - Brown's Available Forms I --t| Politically influenced music making - Wolff's In Between Pieces --t| Music as organized notes and sounds - de Leeuw's Mountains --t| Recent electroacoustic music - Risset's Sud --t| An analysis of Shinohara's Tayutai for koto (1972) - a three dimensional approach of assimilation in experimental music.;

520 a| This book's value lies in the close analysis that is made of all aspects of music itself and of the music-related elements in society. Landy shows that all aspects that are discussed are inter-related.;

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What's the matter with today's experimental music? : organized sound too rarely heard / by Leigh Landy.

Author/creator	Landy, Leigh, 1951-
Format	Book
Publication Info	Chur, [Switzerland] ; Philadelphia : Harwood Academic Publishers, ©1991.
Description	xiv, 308 pages : illustrations ; 25 cm.
Subjects	Avant-garde (Music) Music--20th century. --History and criticism.

Series	Contemporary music studies ; v. 4 Contemporary music studies ; v. 4. ^A287275
Contents	Part 1. Introduction. What's it all about - definition, delineation of the area: also the "parameter" question and Cage's double role (composer/philosopher) -- Part 2. Four extra-musical subjects of relevance. The media/1 - including a double failure: the media's relative lack of support, the musicians' lack of application and the "perfect" recording -- Technology - increased knowledge and utilities in our society ... How are these used/translated in today's music? -- Local music - Have we forgotten regional values? and an overflow of "exotic" goods (recordings) in the supermarket -- Music and politics - including Henze's salon, Cage's anarchism -- Part 3. Status report: advances within experimental music. New notation and instrument practice - Avant-gardism is alive and well - it's the musician who's still suffering/music education and two of Cage's pages -- Form and structure, (a)tonality and rhythm and our perception's fuse box - the questions of the lost melody, the lot of Xenakis' (dis)order, energy; minimalism's twentieth birthday -- Sound sources, color - organized sounds, notes and silences or not? -- The "parameter" space - quadraphonics, the podium, the street, etc. -- The media/2: how often have you seen your compositions performed? - an often ignored potential -- Part 4. Contemporary music today. Survey: one step forwards, two steps backwards? - Including neo [is not equal to] new -- The maestros of the 50s and 60s in 1989 - Cage, Stockhausen and Xenakis plus Ligeti, Kagel, and others. Also the parameters, "Compositional bearing" and "Formel" -- Today's music of sounds: Electroacoustic music and extended vocal techniques - e.g. the MIDI influence and coumputer music is number one -- Fusion music - fortunately the borders with pop and jazz are becoming more and more vague -- Part 5. Conclusion. A possible future for experimental music - among other subjects: the influence of the economy, our schools, today's perspectives in experimentation -- Part 6. Work descriptions and clues for the listener. Melodylessness and beatlessness - Ligeti's Ten Pieces for Wind Quintet -- Extened vocal techniques, new instrumental techniques and new virtuosity - Berio's Sequenza III -- Dealing with highly complex music - for example Carter's Concerto for Orchestra -- Sophisticated formal structures in experimental music which you can hear if you try - Xenakis' Nomos -- Music as process - Reich's Piano Phase -- Available (open) forms - Brown's Available Forms I -- Politically influenced music making - Wolff's In Between Pieces -- Music as organized notes and sounds - de Leeuw's Mountains -- Recent electroacoustic music - Risset's Sud -- An analysis of Shinohara's Tayutai for koto (1972) - a three dimensional approach of assimilation in experimental music.
Abstract	This book's value lies in the close analysis that is made of all aspects of music itself and of the music-related elements in society. Landy shows that all aspects that are discussed are inter-related.
Bibliography note	Includes bibliographical references (pages 295-304) and index.
LCCN	91019226
ISBN	3718651688

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