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Changing the System: The Music of Christian Wolff (Paperback)
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Changing the System: The Music of Christian Wolff (Paperback)
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Christian Wolff is a composer who has followed a distinctive path
often at the centre of avant-garde activity working alongside
figures such as John Cage, Merce Cunningham, and Cornelius Cardew.
In a career spanning sixty years, he has produced a significant and
influential body of work that has aimed to address, in a searching
and provocative manner, what it means to be an experimental and
socially aware artist. This book provides a wide-ranging
introduction to a composer often overlooked despite his influence
upon many of the major figures in new music since the 1950s from
Cage to John Zorn to the new wave of experimentalists across the
globe. As the first detailed analysis of the music of this prolific
and highly individual composer, Changing the System: The Music of
Christian Wolff contains contributions from leading experts in the
field of new and experimental music, as well as from performers and
composers who have worked with Wolff. The reception of Wolff's
music is discussed in relation to the European avant-garde and also
within the context of Wolff's association with Cage and Feldman.
Music from his earliest compositions of the 1950s, the highly
indeterminate scores, the politically-inspired pieces up to the
most recent works are discussed in detail, both in relation to
their compositional techniques, general aesthetic development, and
matters of performance. The particular challenges and aesthetic
issues arising from Wolff's idiosyncratic notations and the
implications for performers are a central theme. Likewise, the ways
in which Wolff's political persuasions - which arguably account for
some of the notational methods he chooses - have been worked out
through his music, are examined. With a foreword by his close
associate Michael Parsons, this is a valuable addition to
experimental music literature.
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