| Contents |
West Coast Prelude (1917-1943) -- East Coast Fugue (1943-1953) -- California Toccata (1953-present) -- The Artist's World. Music and the Dance -- Tuning and Temperament -- Instruments Foraged, Modified, or Invented -- Lou Harrison and East Asian Music -- The Gamelan Ideal: Imagined, Imported, Invented / Leta E. Miller, Frederic Lieberman and Jonathon Grasse -- Sounding Off: Music and Politics -- Harrison, Homosexuality, and the Gay World -- Assembling the Pieces: The Compositional Process -- Not Just Music: Criticism, Poetry, Art, and Typography -- App. 1. List of Interviews -- App. 2. Lou Harrison's Reviews in the New York Herald Tribune (1944-1947) -- Catalog of the Works of Lou Harrison / Leta E. Miller and Charles Hanson -- Lou Harrison: A World Composed (Compact Disc Contents). |
| Contents |
Audio CD contents. Simfony #13 (1941) (9:06) -- Two improvisations in Greek tunings (early 1970s) : Archytas's enharmonic (3:02) ; Didymos's chromatic (2:47) -- Cinna : suite for tack piano (1957) (15:59) -- Strict Songs, movt. 3 : Here is tenderness (1955, revised 1992) (3:04) -- Simfony in free style (1955) (4:08) -- Hyi mun (15th century Korean, realized by Harrison 1970) (3:36) -- The garden at one and a quarter moons (1964, revised 1985) (2:33) -- Gending in honor of the poet Virgil (1981, revised 1985) (9:30) -- Paacifika rondo : movt. 6, A hatred of the filthy bomb (1963) (2:50) -- Peace piece 2 : passages 25 (1968) (7:02) -- Three songs : movt. 1, King David's lament for Jonathan (1985) (3:21)-- Symphony on G : movt. 1 (1947-64) (6:07). |
| Abstract |
Lou Harrison, who celebrated his eightieth birthday in 1997, has often been cited as one of America's most original and influential composers. In addition to his prolific musical output, Harrison is also a skilled painter, calligrapher, essayist, critic, poet, and instrument-builder. During his long and varied career, he has explored dance, Asian music, tuning systems, and universal languages, and has actively championed political causes ranging from pacifism to gay rights. This book, based on extensive research and nearly seventy interviews, examines the ideas that have shaped Harrison's creative output, as seen through the eyes of the composer and his associates. A seventy-minute compact disc included with the book illustrates in sound various aspects of the written text; most pieces are recorded here for the first time. |
| Local note | Joyner-MUSIC LIBRARY BOOK ACCOMPANIED BY SOUND RECORDING CD-4078. |
| Bibliography note | Includes bibliographical references (pages 351-359) and index. |
| LCCN | 97009712 |
| ISBN | 0195110226 |
