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Musings : the musical worlds of Gunther Schuller ; foreword by Milton Babbitt : a collection of his writings / Gunther Schuller ; foreword by Milton Babbitt

Material Type Books
Edition 1st Da Capo Press ed
Publisher New York : Da Capo Press
Year 1999
Language English
Size xii, 303 p. : ill. ; 23 cm

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760.4/S 1210002553
0306809028

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Contents Jazz
The future of form in jazz
What makes jazz jazz?
James Reese Europe
The Orchestrator's challenge
Happy feet : a tribute to Paul Whiteman
Ellington in the Pantheon
Ellington vis-à-vis the swing era
The case for Ellington's music as living repertory
Cecil Taylor : two early recordings
Ornette Coleman
Ornette Coleman's compositions
Sonny rollins and the challenge of thematic improvisation
Lee Konitz
The Divine Sarah
Gil Evans
Alec Wilder
Third stream
Third stream revisited
The avant-garde and third stream
Composing for orchestra
American performance and new music
Conducting revisited
The future of opera
Toward a new classicism?
The State of american orchestras
Program notes - various
Still more program notes - on others
Concerning my opera The Visitation
The compleat musician in the complete conservatory
Qualitative evaluation in the arts
The State of our art
Form, content and symbol
form and aesthetics in twentieth-century music
Notes Originally published: New York : Oxford University Press, 1986
Authors  *Schuller, Gunther
Subjects LCSH:Music
Classification DC21:780
ID 6000450146
ISBN 0306809028
NCID BA48011236

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