Experimental Music: Cage and Beyond (Music in the Twentieth Century)
by Michael Nyman
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Author: Michael NymanEdition: Paperback
Audio: English (Original Language); English (Unknown); English (Published)
Published: 1999-08-28
ISBN: 0521653835
Number of pages: 216
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
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Book Review: Thank goodness for a second edition of this book!
Summary: 5 Stars
Until this second edition (belatedly) appeared, copies of this stimulating book were variously borrowed, photocopied and stolen from each other by musicians and music students! What the rather weighty publisher's review of this book fails to convey is the sheer whimsy and enterprising spirit of much of the music of this period, well expressed in the book. Though a worthwhile and interesting read on Cage, Stockhausen, and so on, its outstanding value for many of us is based on the last chapter, which describes experimental music in Britain in the 60s and 70s under such composers as Cornelius Cardew, John White, and Howard Skempton. It is an entertaining and eye-opening read about such performing groups as the Scratch Orchestra and the Portsmouth Sinfonia, for which there was no need to be able to play an instrument... The results were often hilarious (as well as brave and socially revolutionary) and are well conveyed by Nyman *who was there at the time* and hence conveys it all with a freshness like it was yesterday (which it more-or-less was at the time of the first edition). This book remains the authority on British experimental music of the period, and new scholarly books on the subject are only now about to emerge (judging from a session at 2001's conference on twentieth-century music). Buy quickly, before you have to wait for a third edition!
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