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This work explores the life and works of pioneering opera composer Robert Ashley, one of the leading American composers of the post-Cage generation. Ashley's innovations began in the 1960s when he, along with Alvin Lucier, Gordon Mumma, and David Behrman, formed the Sonic Arts Union, a group th...

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Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Gann, Kyle (Author)
Format: Electronic eBook
Language:Inglés
Published: Urbana : University of Illinois Press, [2012]
Series:Book collections on Project MUSE.
Subjects:
Ashley, Robert, > 1930-2014.
Ashley, Robert, > 1930-2014 > Criticism and interpretation.
Television operas.
Music.
Composers.
Avant-garde (Music)
MUSIC > Individual Composer & Musician.
BIOGRAPHY & AUTOBIOGRAPHY > Composers & Musicians.
Musique experimentale > États-Unis > Histoire > 20e siecle.
Operas pour la television > Histoire et critique.
Compositeurs > États-Unis > Biographies.
Avant-garde (Music) > United States > History > 20th century.
Music > 20th century > History and criticism.
Television operas > History and criticism.
Composers > United States > Biography.
United States.
History.
Criticism, interpretation, etc.
Biographies.
Electronic books.
Online Access:Texto completo
Table of Contents:
  • Oh, how we misunderstand : introduction
  • The vessel of the eternal present : the early years
  • When slow starts to mean something, we crave fast: the ONCE years
  • Incredibly slowly our view begins to slide : the Mills College years
  • I'm not the same person that I used to be : Perfect lives
  • Who could speak if every word had meaning? : Atalanta (Acts of God)
  • If you have to ask you can't afford one : Now Eleanor's idea
  • One thing follows the next and I just do it : Dust, Celestial excursions, Concrete, and smaller pieces.

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