Musings : the musical worlds of Gunther Schuller / Gunther Schuller.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Schuller, Gunther.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Music--History and criticism.

Music.

Physical Description:

xii, 315 p. : music.

Edition:

1st ed.

Place of Publication:

New York : Oxford University Press, 1986.

Language Note:

English

Summary:

This collection of writings by Gunther Schuller--the first composer to be awarded the Elise L. Stoeger Composer's Chair of the Chamber Society of Lincoln Center--provides a marvelous introduction to the man and his extraordinary range of musical experience, taste, and learning. In Part I, "Jazz and the Third Stream," Schuller offers his reflections on jazz, insightful pieces on such figures as Duke Ellington, Cecil Taylor, and Sonny Rollins, and several essays on "the third stream," the genre where jazz and classical music intersect. Part II, "Music Performance and Contemporary Music," includes articles on the art of conducting, the future of opera, the question of a new classicism, and Schuller's own thoughts on his controversial opera The Visitation. The final section, "Music Aesthetics and Education," presents Schuller's reflections on such matters as form, structure, and symbol in music; the need for broadening the audience for quality music; and his vision of the ideal conservatory and the total musician.

Contents:

Intro

Contents

I. JAZZ AND THE THIRD STREAM

1. Jazz

2. The Future of Form in Jazz

3. What Makes Jazz Jazz?

4. James Reese Europe

5. The Orchestrator's Challenge

6. Happy Feet: A Tribute to Paul Whiteman

7. Ellington in the Pantheon

8. Ellington vis-à-vis the Swing Era

9. The Case for Ellington's Music as Living Repertory

10. Cecil Taylor: Two Early Recordings

11. Ornette Coleman

12. Ornette Coleman's Compositions

13. Sonny Rollins and the Challenge of Thematic Improvisation

14. Lee Konitz

15. The Divine Sarah

16. Gil Evans

17. Alec Wilder

18. Third Stream

19. Third Stream Revisited

20. The Avant-Garde and Third Stream

II. MUSIC PERFORMANCE AND CONTEMPORARY MUSIC

21. Composing for Orchestra

22. American Performance and New Music

23. Conducting Revisited

24. The Future of Opera

25. Toward a New Classicism?

26. The State of American Orchestras

27. Program Notes-Various

28. Still More Program Notes-on Others

29. Concerning My Opera The Visitation

III. MUSIC AESTHETICS AND EDUCATION

30. The Compleat Musician in the Complete Conservatory

31. Qualitative Evaluation in the Arts

32. The State of Our Art

33. Form, Content, and Symbol

34. Form and Aesthetics in Twentieth-Century Music

Index

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Notes:

Bibliographic Level Mode of Issuance: Monograph

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ISBN:

1-280-52404-9

1-4237-3647-8

0-19-972363-X

1-60129-738-6

OCLC:

870242524