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Perfect pitch : an autobiography / edited by Nicolas Slonimsky and Electra Slonimsky Yourke.
- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Slonimsky, Nicolas, Author.
- Series:
- Excelsior editions.
- Excelsior Editions Series
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Slonimsky, Nicolas, 1894-1995.
- Slonimsky, Nicolas.
- Lexicographers--United States--Biography.
- Lexicographers.
- Musicians--United States--Biography.
- Musicians.
- United States.
- Genre:
- Autobiographies.
- Biographies
- Autobiographies
- autobiographies (literary works)
- Electronic books.
- Physical Description:
- 1 online resource (482 pages)
- Edition:
- Third revised edition.
- Place of Publication:
- Albany, NY : State University of New York Press, [2023]
- Summary:
- The autobiography of one of the 20th century's most innovative and wittiest composers/performers/authors who witnessed the birth of modern music.
- Contents:
- Intro
- Contents
- List of Illustrations
- Preface
- A Note About This Edition
- I. Perfect Pitch
- 1. St. Petersburg
- 2. My Grandfather Invented the Telegraph
- 3. Joyless Youth, Joyful Revolution
- 4. Exodus
- 5. Paris
- 6. Rochester
- 7. Koussevitzkiana
- 8. Boston Beginnings
- 9. Three Places in New England
- 10. Time Out
- 11. Disaster in Hollywood
- 12. Puella
- 13. Lofty Baton to Lowly Pen
- 14. Jailed Friend
- 15. Exotic Journeys
- 16. Interpolation: Grossmutterakkord
- 17. Back in the Family Fold
- 18. America Loves Russia
- 19. I, Diaskeuast!
- 20. Fame and Fortune
- 21. The Future of My Past
- 22. California, Here I Come
- 23. The Age of Absurdity
- II. Oral History and Other Writings
- Oral History
- Early Education
- Koussevitzky
- Conducting
- Ives
- Compositions
- Musical Theory
- Musical Evolution
- Music for a Desert Island
- Edgard VarÈse
- 1. Conversation with Nicolas Slonimsky on Edgard Varèse
- 2. Analysis of Ionisation
- Heitor Villa-lobos
- 1. A Visit
- 2. The Flamboyant Chanticleer
- Cultural Explosion in the U.S.S.R.
- Lexicographis Secundus Post Herculem Labor
- Index.
- Notes:
- Includes index.
- Description based on publisher supplied metadata and other sources.
- Description based on print version record.
- ISBN:
- 9781438491653
- 1438491654
- OCLC:
- 1370497324
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