Words Without Music: A Memoir - Softcover

Glass, Philip

Softcover

ISBN 10: 1631491431 ISBN 13: 9781631491436

Verlag: Norton & Company, 2018

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Críticas:

Glass, a key figure of musical minimalism, was one of the first composers to reject a distinction between 'ethnic' music and Western classical music, and in this memoir he explains how he came to view a composition not as a linear narrative but as progressive rhythmic sequences.

Lively and colorful.... Glass is one of the most articulate composers around. Insight and practical common sense pervade his new book.... With a composer's sense of form, Glass returns, in the final pages, to his youth, the subject that elicits his most evocative writing.--Kyle Gann

Well-supplied with droll observations and plainspoken assessments regarding the details of a career that has been as remarkable and noteworthy as any in American music--indeed, in American culture.... Honest and candid.--Steve Smith

Reseña del editor:

A world-renowned composer of symphonies, operas, and film scores, Glass has, almost single-handedly, crafted the dominant sound of late-twentieth-century classical music. Here his behind-the-scenes recollections allow readers to experience those moments of creative fusion when life so magically merged with art. From his childhood in post-World War II Baltimore to his student days in Chicago, at Julliard, and his first journey to Paris, where he studied under the formidable Nadia Boulanger, Glass movinglyrecalls his early mentors, while reconstructing the places that helped shape his artistic consciousness.

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• Verlag: Norton & Company
• Erscheinungsdatum: 2018
• ISBN 10: 1631491431
• ISBN 13: 9781631491436
• Einband: Tapa blanda
• Anzahl der Seiten: 418