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Edgard Varèse / Alan Clayson.
Van Pelt - Albrecht Music Library ML410.V27 C53 2002
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- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Clayson, Alan.
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Varèse, Edgard, 1883-1965.
- Varèse, Edgard.
- Composers--United States--Biography.
- Composers.
- United States.
- Genre:
- Biographies.
- Physical Description:
- 207 pages, 8 unnumbered pages of plates : illustrations, portraits ; 22 cm
- Place of Publication:
- London : Sanctuary, 2002.
- Summary:
- French born New Yorker, Edgard Varese sound-tracked industrial society just as Debussy had more pastoral settings.
- Frank Zappa's boyhood hero, inspiration to The Grateful Dead, Chicago and Laurie Anderson, revered by Stravinsky, Stockhausen, Cage and Charlie Parker, Varese saw music as an "art-science" in which machines, not instruments would extend the sonic vocabulary.
- Ionization (1933), for percussion and sirens, Deserts (1954), Density 21.5 for platinum flute, The One All Alone, a science fiction opera, and Espace, written in aid of Spanish Civil War revolutionaries brought critical acclaim. Then followed 15 "wilderness years" which ended in 1958 when his symphony, Poeme Electronique was played through 400 revolving loudspeakers at the Brussels Exposition.
- Notes:
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- ISBN:
- 1860743986
- OCLC:
- 49205852
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