An orchestra at my fingertips : a history of the Canadian Electronic Ensemble / Alexa Woloshyn.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Woloshyn, Alexa, author.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Canadian Electronic Ensemble.

Electronic music.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (305 pages)

Edition:

1st ed.

Place of Publication:

Montreal, Quebec : McGill-Queen's University Press, [2023]

Summary:

An Orchestra at My Fingertips is the first study of the history, activities, and legacy of the Canadian Electronic Ensemble. Covering the ensemble's first fifty years, Alexa Woloshyn features musician biographies as well as analyses of the CEE's compositions, improvisations, commissions, and performance practice.

Contents:

Cover

An Orchestra at My Fingertips

Title

Copyright

Contents

Figures and Tables

Prologue

Acknowledgments

1 Electrifying Musical Life in Toronto

2 A CEE Origin Story: Don't Mistake Us for a Pop Band

3 Sounds like the CEE: A Technological and Aesthetic Community

4 The CEE Live: Virtuosity, Perceptibility, and Improvisation

5 CEE Listening Spaces: Embodied, Embedded, and Virtual Contexts

6 A CEE Musical Network: Supporting Musical Life in Canada and Beyond

Epilogue

Discography

Appendix: Listening Guides

Increscents (1972) - David Grimes

Fancye (1973) - David Jaeger

Consequences for 5 (1977) - Norma Beecroft

I Have Come Through (1979) - James Montgomery

Quivi sospiri (1979) - David Jaeger

Psalm (1985) - Larry Lake

Attention Elk! (1994) - CEE

Caspin's Arrival (1998) - CEE

Improvisation #4 (2008) - CEE

Notes

References

Index.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Description based on print version record.

Other Format:

Print version: Woloshyn, Alexa An Orchestra at My Fingertips

ISBN:

0-2280-1839-0

OCLC:

1355549110