2004, ISBN: 0252071808

[EAN: 9780252071805], Nouveau livre, [SC: 28.67], [PU: University of Illinois Press, Baltimore], Paperback. Colin McPhee was a performer, writer, and pioneer among Western composers in tu… More...

[EAN: 9780252071805], Nouveau livre, [SC: 28.67], [PU: University of Illinois Press, Baltimore], Paperback. Colin McPhee was a performer, writer, and pioneer among Western composers in turning to Asia for inspiration. A close friend of Aaron Copland, Carlos Chavez, Henry Cowell, and Virgil Thomson, he played a vital role in new music activities in New York in the 1920s, but his most important accomplishments came from his devotion to the music of Bali. Carol Oja's Colin McPhee: Composer in Two Worlds traces his life, his influences on fellow musicians, and the profound experience of a composer striving to comprehend an entirely new musical language. After hearing rare recordings of the Balinese gamelan--a percussion orchestra with delicately layered textures and clangorous sounds--McPhee traveled to Bali and worked closely with such Western anthropologists as Margaret Mead and Gregory Bateson. The island may also have appealed to him because of its relatively open attitude toward homosexuality. Colin McPhee was a performer, writer, and pioneer among Western composers in turning to Asia for inspiration.A close friend of Aaron Copland, Carlos Chavez, Henry Cowell, and Virgil Thomson, he played a vital role in new music activities in New York in the 1920s, but his most important accomplishments came from his devotion to the music of Bali. Carol Oja's Colin McPhee: Composer in Two Worlds traces his life, his influences on fellow musicians, and the profound experience of a composer striving to comprehend an entirely new musical language. After hearing rare recordings of the Balinese gamelan--a percussion orchestra with delicately layered textures and clangorous sounds--McPhee traveled to Bali and worked closely with such Western anthropologists as Margaret Mead and Gregory Bateson. The island may also have appealed to him because of its relatively open attitude toward homosexuality. Gay by inclination, he nevertheless married anthropologist Jane Belo and built a native-style house on the island where they lived for most of the 1930s. During this time, McPhee became a devoted and meticulous chronicler of Balinese musical culture, and his Music of Bali remains a classic in ethnomusicology.Beginning in the mid-1930s, his own compositions became an imaginative hybrid of Balinese and Western music, anticipating the later work of such figures as John Cage, Lou Harrison, and Steve Reich. Finally back in print, Carol Oja's account of McPhee's unconventional life and work evokes key issues in composition and ethnomusicology, sure to be of interest to scholars, musicians or anyone interested in 20th century American or Balinese music. A study of a pioneer among American composers, his life, his influences on fellow musicians, and his struggles as a composer Shipping may be from our UK warehouse or from our Australian or US warehouses, depending on stock availability., Books<

ISBN: 9780252071805

Colin McPhee was a performer, writer, and pioneer among Western composers in turning to Asia for inspiration. A close friend of Aaron Copland, Carlos Chavez, Henry Cowell, and Virgil Thom… More...

Colin McPhee was a performer, writer, and pioneer among Western composers in turning to Asia for inspiration. A close friend of Aaron Copland, Carlos Chavez, Henry Cowell, and Virgil Thomson, he played a vital role in new music activities in New York in the 1920s. But his most important accomplishments emerged from his devotion to the music of Bali. After hearing rare recordings of the Balinese gamelan—a percussion orchestra with delicately layered textures and clangorous sounds—McPhee traveled to Bali to learn more. There, he worked closely with Western anthropologists like Margaret Mead and Gregory Bateson. McPhee became a devoted and meticulous chronicler of Balinese musical culture in classic texts like Music of Bali while integrating Balinese and Western music into an imaginative hybrid that anticipated work by John Cage, Lou Harrison, and Steve Reich.A fascinating portrait of an unconventional artist-scholar, Colin McPhee evocatively looks at key issues in composition and ethnomusicology while describing the profound experience of a composer striving to comprehend a new musical language. Trade Books>Trade Paperback>Music>Classical>Classical, University of Illinois Press Core >1<

2004, ISBN: 9780252071805

University of Illinois Press, Paperback, Auflage: Illustrated, 376 Seiten, Publiziert: 2004-02-26T00:00:01Z, Produktgruppe: Book, 0.63 kg, Books Global Store, Special Features, Books, Sty… More...

University of Illinois Press, Paperback, Auflage: Illustrated, 376 Seiten, Publiziert: 2004-02-26T00:00:01Z, Produktgruppe: Book, 0.63 kg, Books Global Store, Special Features, Books, Styles, Music, Arts & Photography, Subjects, Actors & Entertainers, Film, Television & Music, Biography, Classical Music, Teaching & Learning, Social & Health Issues, Gender Studies, Politics, Philosophy & Social Sciences, Format: Illustrated, University of Illinois Press, 2004<

2004, ISBN: 9780252071805

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ISBN: 9780252071805

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