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Early Jazz is one of the seminal books on American jazz, ranging
from the beginnings of jazz as a distinct musical style at the turn
of the century to its first great flowering in the 1930s. Schuller
explores the music of the great jazz soloists of the
twenties--Jelly Roll Morton, Bix Beiderbecke, Bessie Smith, Louis
Armstrong, and others--and the big bands and arrangers--Fletcher
Henderson, Bennie Moten, and especially Duke Ellington--placing
their music in the context of the other musical cultures of the
twentieth century and offering analyses of many great jazz
recordings.
The autobiography of composer and conductor Gunther Schuller and a recounting of the American musical scene through the twentieth century and into the twenty-first. Simultaneously the memoir of a famed composer, conductor, and music educator, and an important historical sourcebook on the American musical scene during the twentieth century and into the twenty-first, the autobiography of Gunther Schuller chronicles the first thirty-five years of this multifaceted and expansive figure's life and work. Schuller began composing music at an early age and joined the Cincinnati Symphony as its principal French horn player at seventeen. Since then he has written for many major orchestras and his work has earned him a MacArthur Foundation "genius" grant and the Pulitzer Prize in 1994 for his large-scale orchestral piece Of Reminiscences and Reflections. Perhaps most famously, Schuller contributed to a new stylistic blend between progressive factions of jazz and classical music, for which he coined the term "Third Stream," and collaborated with John Lewis, the ModernJazz Quartet, and others in the development of this style. In this exquisitely detailed reflection on his early influences, experiences of good fortune, and powers of curiosity, as well as firsthand recounting of critical cultural and social moments and major movers of the jazz world, Schuller here beautifully and honestly narrates a life lived beyond limits. Gunther Schuller has been on the faculties of the Manhattan School of Music andYale University; he was, for many years, head of contemporary music activities (succeeding Aaron Copland) and Director of the Tanglewood Music Center, and served as president of the New England Conservatory. He is the author of The Swing Era: The Development of Jazz, 1930-1945; Early Jazz: Its Roots and Musical Development; The Compleat Conductor, and many other books.
Written by a world renowned conductor and composer, this highly provocative critique of modern conducting is sure to spark debate in the music world.
This collection of writings by Gunther Schuller--the first composer to be awarded the Elise L. Stoeger Composer's Chair of the Chamber Society of Lincoln Center--provides a marvelous introduction to the man and his extraordinary range of musical experience, taste, and learning. In Part I, "Jazz and the Third Stream," Schuller offers his reflections on jazz, insightful pieces on such figures as Duke Ellington, Cecil Taylor, and Sonny Rollins, and several essays on "the third stream," the genre where jazz and classical music intersect. Part II, "Music Performance and Contemporary Music," includes articles on the art of conducting, the future of opera, the question of a new classicism, and Schuller's own thoughts on his controversial opera The Visitation. The final section, "Music Aesthetics and Education," presents Schuller's reflections on such matters as form, structure, and symbol in music; the need for broadening the audience for quality music; and his vision of the ideal conservatory and the total musician.
Here is the book jazz lovers have eagerly awaited, the second
volume of Gunther Schuller's monumental The History of Jazz. When
the first volume, Early Jazz, appeared two decades ago, it
immediately established itself as one of the seminal works on
American music. Nat Hentoff called it "a remarkable breakthrough in
musical analysis of jazz," and Frank Conroy, in The New York Times
Book Review, praised it as "definitive.... A remarkable book by any
standard...unparalleled in the literature of jazz." It has been
universally recognized as the basic musical analysis of jazz from
its beginnings until 1933.
Early Jazz is one of the seminal books on American jazz, ranging
from the beginnings of jazz as a distinct musical style at the turn
of the century to its first great flowering in the 1930s. Schuller
explores the music of the great jazz soloists of the
twenties--Jelly Roll Morton, Bix Beiderbecke, Bessie Smith, Louis
Armstrong, and others--and the big bands and arrangers--Fletcher
Henderson, Bennie Moten, and especially Duke Ellington--placing
their music in the context of the other musical cultures of the
twentieth century and offering analyses of many great jazz
recordings.
Musings gathers together the essays, speeches, liner notes, dictionary entries, and magazine articles of Gunther Schuller, one of the most important musical figures of the century. The writings in this collection cover such artists as Paul Whiteman, Duke Ellington, Cecil Taylor, Ornette Coleman, Sonny Rollins, Sarah Vaughan, Gil Evans. Schuller also writes about such topics as the "Third Stream," the art of conducting, the future of opera, and the need for broadening the audience for quality music. A marvellous introduction to the man and his experience, taste and erudition, Musings is essential reading for anyone interested in twentieth-century music.
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