Lou Harrison : composing a world / Leta E. Miller, Fredric Lieberman

By:

Miller, Leta E [autor]

Contributor(s):

Lieberman, Fredric [autor]

Material type: Text

TextPublisher: New York : Oxford University Press, 1998Description: xiv, 385 pàgines : il·lustracions ; 24 cm. + 1 disc sonorContent type:

text
música executada

Media type:

sense mediació
àudio

Carrier type:

volum
disc àudio

ISBN:

0195110226
9780195110227

Subject(s):

Harrison, Lou, 1917-2003 -- Crítica i interpretació

DDC classification:

782.1.07 Harrison, Lou

Contents:

Conté: Pt. I. Biography. 1. West Coast Prelude (1917-1943). 2. East Coast Fugue (1943-1953). 3. California Toccata (1953-present) -- pt. II. The Artist's World. 4. Music and the Dance. 5. Tuning and Temperament. 6. Instruments Foraged, Modified, or Invented. 7. Lou Harrison and East Asian Music. 8. The Gamelan Ideal: Imagined, Imported, Invented / Leta E. Miller, Frederic Lieberman and Jonathon Grasse. 9. Sounding Off: Music and Politics. 10. Harrison, Homosexuality, and the Gay World. 11. Assembling the Pieces: The Compositional Process. 12. Not Just Music: Criticism, Poetry, Art, and Typography -- App. 1. List of Interviews -- App. 2. Lou Harrison's Reviews in the New York Herald Tribune (1944-1947) -- Catalog of the Works of Lou Harrison / Leta E. Miller and Charles Hanson -- Lou Harrison: A World Composed (Compact Disc Contents).

Conté: Audio CD contents. Simfony #13 (1941) (9:06) -- Two improvisations in Greek tunings (early 1970s) : Archytas's enharmonic (3:02) ; Didymos's chromatic (2:47) -- Cinna : suite for tack piano (1957) (15:59) -- Strict Songs, movt. 3 : Here is tenderness (1955, revised 1992) (3:04) -- Simfony in free style (1955) (4:08) -- Hyi mun (15th century Korean, realized by Harrison 1970) (3:36) -- The garden at one and a quarter moons (1964, revised 1985) (2:33) -- Gending in honor of the poet Virgil (1981, revised 1985) (9:30) -- Paacifika rondo : movt. 6, A hatred of the filthy bomb (1963) (2:50) -- Peace piece 2 : passages 25 (1968) (7:02) -- Three songs : movt. 1, King David's lament for Jonathan (1985) (3:21) -- Symphony on G : movt. 1 (1947-64) (6:07).

Summary: Lou Harrison, who celebrated his eightieth birthday in 1997, has often been cited as one of America's most original and influential composers. In addition to his prolific musical output, Harrison is also a skilled painter, calligrapher, essayist, critic, poet, and instrument-builder. During his long and varied career, he has explored dance, Asian music, tuning systems, and universal languages, and has actively championed political causes ranging from pacifism to gay rights. This book, based on extensive research and nearly seventy interviews, examines the ideas that have shaped Harrison's creative output, as seen through the eyes of the composer and his associates. A seventy-minute compact disc included with the book illustrates in sound various aspects of the written text; most pieces are recorded here for the first time.

Holdings
Item type	Current library	Home library	Call number	Status	Date due	Barcode
Llibre	Biblioteca Barcelona	Biblioteca Barcelona BCN Lliure Accés	782 (har) MIL (Browse shelf(Opens below))	Available		1900083553
Àudio	Biblioteca Barcelona	Biblioteca Barcelona BCN Lliure Accés	782 (har) MIL (Browse shelf(Opens below))	Available		1900083413

Inclou llista d'obres pàgines: 267-315

Inclou referències bibliogràfiques pàgines: 351-359 i índex

Lou Harrison, who celebrated his eightieth birthday in 1997, has often been cited as one of America's most original and influential composers. In addition to his prolific musical output, Harrison is also a skilled painter, calligrapher, essayist, critic, poet, and instrument-builder. During his long and varied career, he has explored dance, Asian music, tuning systems, and universal languages, and has actively championed political causes ranging from pacifism to gay rights. This book, based on extensive research and nearly seventy interviews, examines the ideas that have shaped Harrison's creative output, as seen through the eyes of the composer and his associates. A seventy-minute compact disc included with the book illustrates in sound various aspects of the written text; most pieces are recorded here for the first time.

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