Experimental Music
Cage and Beyond
- Author: Nyman
a welcome reissue of the book ... Above all, Experimental Music is a useful source book for a period of radicalism in musical practice in which the rule was to break the rules —
Book
$33.75Printed on demand
Contents
- Foreword Brian Eno
- Preface to the second edition
- 1. Towards (a definition of) experimental music
- 2. Backgrounds
- 3. Inauguration 1950-60: Feldman, Brown, Wolff, Cage
- 4. Seeing, hearing: Fluxus
- 5. Electronic systems
- 6. Indeterminacy 1960-70: Ichiyanagai, Ashley, Wolff, Cardew, Scratch Orchestra
- 7. Minimal music, determinacy and the new tonality
- Discography Robert Worby.