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Breaking the sound barrier : a critical anthology of the new music / edited by Gregory Battcock.

Contributor(s): Material type: TextTextPublication details: New York : Dutton, c1981.Edition: 1st edDescription: xv, 351 p. : ill., music ; 21 cmISBN:
  • 0525475982 (pbk.) :
Subject(s): DDC classification:
  • 780/.904 19
LOC classification:
  • ML197 .B75
Contents:
Benjamin Boretz : musical cosmology -- Fluxus music / Peter Frank -- Boredom and danger / Dick Higgins -- Notes on new music / Tom Johnson -- Definitions of popular music : recycled / Gaynor G. Jones & Jay Rahn -- Moment form in twentieth-century music / Jonathan D. Kramer -- Music of futurism : concerts and polemics / Rodney J. Payton -- Operational music / William Wilson -- Serial music today / Earle Brown -- Time and music : a composer's view / Barney Childs -- Generating and organizing variety in the arts / Brian Eno -- Paik and Moorman perform Cage -- Writings about music / Steve Reich -- Synthesizers and the evolution of electronic music / Jerry Davidson -- Microcomputers and electronic music / Hubert S. Howe -- Notations / Allison Knowles -- Music since Hiroshima : electronic age begins / Herbert Russcol -- Electronic synthesizers : a survey / Stephen Syverud -- Arthur Berger's Trio for violin, guitar and piano / Elaine Barkin -- Music of Elliott Carter / William Brandt -- Wiggly lines and wobbly music / Cornelius Cardew -- Avant-Garde Issues in seventies music / Thomas DeLio -- Edgard Varese : an oral history project / Ruth Julius -- Two tonal composers / Richard Kostelanetz -- Ear, heart, and brain / Michel P. Philippot -- Schönberg -- yesterday, today, and tomorrow / Josef Rufer -- Electronic music and live performance / Elliot Schwartz.
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Includes index.

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Benjamin Boretz : musical cosmology -- Fluxus music / Peter Frank -- Boredom and danger / Dick Higgins -- Notes on new music / Tom Johnson -- Definitions of popular music : recycled / Gaynor G. Jones & Jay Rahn -- Moment form in twentieth-century music / Jonathan D. Kramer -- Music of futurism : concerts and polemics / Rodney J. Payton -- Operational music / William Wilson -- Serial music today / Earle Brown -- Time and music : a composer's view / Barney Childs -- Generating and organizing variety in the arts / Brian Eno -- Paik and Moorman perform Cage -- Writings about music / Steve Reich -- Synthesizers and the evolution of electronic music / Jerry Davidson -- Microcomputers and electronic music / Hubert S. Howe -- Notations / Allison Knowles -- Music since Hiroshima : electronic age begins / Herbert Russcol -- Electronic synthesizers : a survey / Stephen Syverud -- Arthur Berger's Trio for violin, guitar and piano / Elaine Barkin -- Music of Elliott Carter / William Brandt -- Wiggly lines and wobbly music / Cornelius Cardew -- Avant-Garde Issues in seventies music / Thomas DeLio -- Edgard Varese : an oral history project / Ruth Julius -- Two tonal composers / Richard Kostelanetz -- Ear, heart, and brain / Michel P. Philippot -- Schönberg -- yesterday, today, and tomorrow / Josef Rufer -- Electronic music and live performance / Elliot Schwartz.