Beyond notation : the music of Earle Brown / Rebecca Y. Kim, Editor.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Brown, Earle, 1926-2002.

Kim, Rebecca Y., editor.

JSTOR (Online Service)

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Brown, Earle, 1926-2002--Criticism and interpretation.

Brown, Earle.

Brown, Earle, 1926-2002.

Criticism and interpretation.

Physical Description:

1 online resource

Place of Publication:

Ann Arbor : University of Michigan Press, 2017.

System Details:

text file

Summary:

Earle Brown (1926-2002) was a crucial part of a group of experimental composers known as the New York School, and his music intersects in fascinating ways with that of his colleagues John Cage, Morton Feldman, and Christian Wolff. This book seeks to expand our view of Brown's work by exploring his practices as a composer and painter through a selection of works composed in the United States and Europe, which included a seminal collaboration with sculptor Alexander Calder. These essays detail Brown's compositional methods in historical context: not only his influential experiments with open form composition and graphic notation, but his interest in performance, mixed media, jazz, the Schillinger system, and his engagement with the European avant-garde. The volume also includes never before published essays by Brown that shed new light on his relationships with colleagues and the ideas that shaped his work, in addition to several color photographs of Brown's paintings. Book jacket.

Contents:

1 An Overview of Earle Brown's Techniques and Media / Jason Cady Cady, Jason 1

2 The Early Years / Carolyn Brown Brown, Carolyn 21

3 Earle Brown's Study and Use of the Schillinger System of Musical Composition / Louis Pine Pine, Louis 27

4 Energy Fields: Earle Brown, Open Form, and the Visual Arts / David Ryan Ryan, David 80

5 Four Musicians at Work and Earle Brown's Indices / Rebecca Y. Kim Kim, Rebecca Y. 113

6 Their Man in Europe, Our Man in America: Earle Brown and the European Avant-Garde / Richard Toop Toop, Richard 142

7 Collage and the Feedback Condition of Earle Brown's Calder Piece / Elizabeth Hoover Hoover, Elizabeth 159

8 Imagining an Ever-Changing Entity: Compositional Process in Earle Brown's Cross Sections and Color Fields / Fredrick Gifford Gifford, Fredrick 188

9 Then and Now: Changing Perspectives on Performing Earle Brown's Open Form Scores / Stephen Drury Drury, Stephen 231

10 "Let's Hear Some Sounds": Earle Brown at CalArts / George Brunner Brunner, George 249

11 Farewell to the Closed Form: Earle Brown and the New York School / Hans Zender (Translated by Felix Koch) Zender, Hans, (Translated by Felix Koch) 255

Select Texts by Earle Brown 267

Why I Am a 12-Tone Composer (ca. 1951) 267

Letter to Ray Grismer (April 4, 1957) 270

Varèse (1961) 275

Letter to Leonard Bernstein (July 9, 1963) 278

Remarks Delivered to the National Music Council, New York City (1966) 280

An "Open Letter" to Some Critics and Friends (October 15, 1973) 289

Earle Brown, Composer (ca. 1976) 291.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Electronic reproduction. New York Available via World Wide Web.

Description based on print version record.

Related Work:

Brown, Earle, 1926-2002. Prose works. Selections.

ISBN:

9780472123322

0472123327

Publisher Number:

99973859523

Access Restriction:

Restricted for use by site license.