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Michael Nyman: Collected Writings (Paperback)
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Michael Nyman: Collected Writings (Paperback)
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For over three decades Michael Nyman's music has succeeded in
reaching beyond the small community of contemporary music
aficionados to a much wider range of listeners. An important
element in unlocking the key to Nyman's success lies in his
writings about music, which preoccupied him for over a decade from
the late 1960s to the early 1980s. During this time Nyman produced
over 100 articles, covering almost every conceivable musical style
and genre - from the Early Music revival and the West's interest in
'world' music, or from John Cage and minimalism to rock and pop.
Nyman initiated a number of landmark moments in the course of late
twentieth-century music along the way: he was one of the first to
critique the distinction between the European avant-garde and the
American experimental movement; he was the first to coin the term
'minimalism' in relation to the music of (then largely unknown)
Steve Reich and Terry Riley, and later Philip Glass; the first to
seriously engage with the music of the English experimental
tradition and the importance of Cornelius Cardew, and to identify
the importance of Art Colleges in nurturing and developing a
radical alternative to modernism; and one of the first writers to
grasp the significance of post-minimalists such as Brian Eno and
Harold Budd, and to realize how these elements could be brought
together into a new aesthetic vision for his own creative
endeavours, which was formulated during the late 1970s and early
80s. Much of what transformed and defined Nyman's musical character
may be found within the pages of this volume of his writings,
comprehensively edited and annotated for the first time, and
including previously unpublished material from Nyman's second
interview with Steve Reich in 1976. There is also much here to
engage the minds of those who are interested in pre-twentieth
century music, from Early and Baroque music (Handel and Purcell in
particular) to innovative features in Haydn, spatial elements in
Berlioz, or Bruckner and Mahler's symphonic works.
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