The Music of Conlon Nancarrow
- Author: Gann, Kyle
excellent new title by Village Voice critic Kyle Gann, the first book on the composer and a compendious survey of his work —
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Contents
- Preface
- 1. The music: general considerations
- 2. A biographical sketch
- 3. Foreshadowings: the early works
- 4. Blues years: the ostinato studies
- 5. Isorhythm: the numbers game
- 6. Canon: phase 1
- 7. Stretching time: the acceleration studies
- 8. Beyond counterpoint: the sound-mass canons
- 9. Synthesizing a language
- 10. After the player piano
- Notes
- Discography
- Select bibliography
- Scores
- Index.
