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  • No Such Thing as Silence

    John Cage's 4'33"

    by Kyle Gann ...
    Series series Icons of America
    First performed at the midpoint of the twentieth century, John Cage's 4'33", a composition conceived of without a single musical note,is among the most celebrated and ballyhooed cultural gestures in the history of modern music. A meditation on the act of listening and the nature of performance, Cage's controversial piece became the iconic statement of the meaning of silence in art and is a ... Read more

    $12.99 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • The Arithmetic of Listening

    Tuning Theory and History for the Impractical Musician

    by Kyle Gann ...
    "Tuning is the secret lens through which the history of music falls into focus," says Kyle Gann. Yet in Western circles, no other musical issue is so ignored, so taken for granted, so shoved into the corners of musical discourse.A classroom essential and an invaluable reference, The Arithmetic of Listening offers beginners the grounding in music theory necessary to find their own way into ... Read more

    $11.59 USD

  • Gay Guerrilla

    Julius Eastman and His Music

    by Renee Levine-Packer, R. Nemo Hill, Ryan Dohoney, Mary Jane Leach, Andrew Hanson-Dvoracek, David Borden, John Patrick Thomas, Kyle Gann, Luciano Chessa0, Matthew Mendez1 ...
    Composer-performer Julius Eastman (1940-90) was an enigma, both comfortable and uncomfortable in the many worlds he inhabited: black, white, gay, straight, classical music, disco, academia, and downtown New York. His music, insistent and straightforward, resists labels and seethes with a tension that resonates with musicians, scholars, and audiences today. Eastman's provocative titles, including ... Read more

    $17.99 USD

  • The World Got Away

    A Memoir

    by Mikel Rouse ...
    Series series Music in American Life
    One of the most innovative composers of his generation, Mikel Rouse is known for a trilogy of operas that includes Dennis Cleveland and a gift for superimposing pop vernaculars onto avant-garde music. This memoir channels Rouse’s high energy personality into an exuberant account of the precarity and pleasures of artistic creation. Raconteur and starving artist, witty observer and acclaimed ... Read more

    $11.59 USD

  • Charles Ives's Concord

    Essays after a Sonata

    by Kyle Gann ...
    Series series Music in American Life
    In 1921, insurance executive Charles Ives sent out copies of a piano sonata to two hundred strangers. Laden with dissonant chords, complex rhythm, and a seemingly chaotic structure, the so-called Concord Sonata confounded the recipients, as did the accompanying book, Essays before a Sonata . Kyle Gann merges exhaustive research with his own experience as a composer to reveal the Concord Sonata and ... Read more

    $14.39 USD

  • The Ashgate Research Companion to Minimalist and Postminimalist Music

    by Keith Potter, Kyle Gann ...
    Series series Routledge Music Companions
    In recent years the music of minimalist composers such as La Monte Young, Terry Riley, Steve Reich and Philip Glass has, increasingly, become the subject of important musicological reflection, research and debate. Scholars have also been turning their attention to the work of lesser-known contemporaries such as Phill Niblock and Eliane Radigue, or to second and third generation minimalists such as ... Read more

    $62.99 USD

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  • Listen to This

    by Alex Ross ...
    One of The Telegraph's Best Music Books 2011Alex Ross's award-winning international bestseller, The Rest Is Noise: Listening to the Twentieth Century, has become a contemporary classic, establishing Ross as one of our most popular and acclaimed cultural historians. Listen to This, which takes its title from a beloved 2004 essay in which Ross describes his late-blooming discovery of pop music, ... Read more

    $14.39 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • Uncle John's Bathroom Reader Plunges Into Music

    by Bathroom Readers' Institute ...
    Series series Uncle John's Bathroom Reader
    An entertaining trivia compendium flush with fun facts about all things music.From boogie-woogie to Beethoven, from Prince to Pavarotti, from the bards of Broadway to the rebels of rock 'n' roll—it's all here. Uncle John has created this harmonious collection of tuneful tales for music lovers everywhere.Uncle John has proven once again that he is in tune with our legion of loyal readers. This 516 ... Read more

    $12.99 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • Where the Heart Beats

    John Cage, Zen Buddhism, and the Inner Life of Artists

    by Kay Larson ...
    A “heroic” and “fascinating” biography of John Cage showing how his work, and that of countless American artists, was transformed by Zen Buddhism (The New York Times)Where the Heart Beats is the story of the tremendous changes sweeping through American culture following the Second World War, a time when the arts in America broke away from centuries of tradition and reinvented themselves. Painters ... Read more

    $11.99 USD

  • My First New York

    Early Adventures in the Big City

    by New York Magazine ...
    A book as effervescent and alive as the city itself.My First New York features candid accounts of coming to New York by more than fifty of the most remarkable people who have called the city home. Here are true stories of long nights out and wild nights in, of first dates and lost loves, of memorable meals and miserable jobs, of slow walks up Broadway and fast subway rides downtown.The ... Read more

    $12.99 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • Words Without Music

    A Memoir

    by Philip Glass ...
    New York Times BestsellerAn NPR Best Book of the YearWinner of the Chicago Tribune Literary AwardFinalist for the Marfield Prize, National Award for Arts Writing"Reads the way Mr. Glass's compositions sound at their best: propulsive, with a surreptitious emotional undertow." —Corinna da Fonseca-Wollheim, New York TimesPhilip Glass has, almost single-handedly, crafted the dominant sound of late ... Read more

    $2.99 USD

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  • Stopping Time

    Paul Bley and the Transformation of Jazz

    by Paul Bley, David Lee ...
    Paul Bley was barely into his twenties when he left Montreal for New York City, yet he had already played with Charlie Parker and subbed for Oscar Peterson at the Alberta Lounge. The piano prodigy had been leading his own bands in Montreal clubs since he was thirteen. Stopping Time is the story of a unique Canadian artist and his odyssey through the most turbulent years in modern jazz. Paul Bley ... Read more

    $11.59 USD