Michael Nyman: Collected Writings (USED)

Description: Product Description : Michael Nyman: Collected Writings For over three decades Michael Nymans music has succeeded in reaching beyond the small community of contemporary music aficionados to a much wider range of listeners An important element in unlocking the key to Nymans success lies in his writings about music which preoccupied him for over a decade from the late 1960s to the early 1980s During this time Nyman produced over 100 articles covering almost every conceivable musical style and genre from the Early Music revival and the Wests interest in world music or from John Cage and minimalism to rock and pop Nyman initiated a number of landmark moments in the course of late twentiethcentury music along the way he was one of the first to critique the distinction between the European avantgarde and the American experimental movement he was the first to coin the term minimalism in relation to the music of then largely unknown Steve Reich and Terry Riley and later Philip Glass the first to seriously engage with the music of the English experimental tradition and the importance of Cornelius Cardew and to identify the importance of Art Colleges in nurturing and developing a radical alternative to modernism and one of the first writers to grasp the significance of postminimalists such as Brian Eno and Harold Budd and to realize how these elements could be brought together into a new aesthetic vision for his own creative endeavours which was formulated during the late 1970s and early 80s Much of what transformed and defined Nymans musical character may be found within the pages of this volume of his writings comprehensively edited and annotated for the first time and including previously unpublished material from Nymans second interview with Steve Reich in 1976 There is also much here to engage the minds of those who are interested in pretwentieth century music from Early and Baroque music Handel and Purcell in particular to innovative features in Haydn spatial elements in Berlioz or Bruckner and Mahlers symphonic works( it is an used product )

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