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An engaging, practical, sometimes poetic account of the new world
of percussion music -- from the 1930s (Varese, Cage) to today -- by
one of its leading practitioners. In the beginning there was noise.
Drumming, the world's most ancient instrumental tradition,
re-emerged explosively in the concert music of the twentieth
century as music for percussion, involving drums and many other
kinds of noisemakers. The music that resulted has spanned an
expressive and intellectual gamut: from Cage, Varèse, and Cowell
came the first ear-splitting sounds of an American percussion
revolution that began in the 1930s; from Stockhausen,Ferneyhough,
and Xenakis we have music whose intellectual demands are matched by
a vibrant physicality; Feldman gave us gently unfolding structures;
John Luther Adams finds music within the earth itself. The
Percussionist's Art: Same Bed, Different Dreams examines this music
through the eyes of a performer. The book is a practical
philosophy, looking not just at the big ideas behind these and
other pieces, but also at how those ideas find expressionin sound.
Foreword written by Paul Griffiths. Contains a Compact Disc of
Steven Schick performing eight musical works that he discusses in
detail in the book. Composers include John Luther Adams, Brian
Ferneyhough, Michael Gordon, David Lang, Edgard Varèse, Charles
Wuorinen, and Iannis Xenakis. Steven Schick is the world's leading
exponent of solo percussion music involving multiple instruments.
He has commissioned more than one hundred piecesfrom renowned
composers including David Lang, Brian Ferneyhough, and Roger
Reynolds. He was a founding member of the Bang on a Can All-Stars
(1992-2002) and Artistic Director of the Centre International de
Percussion de Genève (Switzerland, 2002-4). He teaches at the
University of California, San Diego, where he directs the
percussion group "red fish blue fish."
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