John Cage and David Tudor by Martin Iddon
John Cage is best known for his indeterminate music, which leaves a significant level of creative decision-making in the hands of the performer. But how much licence did Cage allow? Martin Iddon's book is the first volume to collect the complete extant correspondence between the composer and pianist David Tudor, one of Cage's most provocative and significant musical collaborators. The book presents their partnership from working together in New York in the early 1950s, through periods on tour in Europe, until the late stages of their work from the 1960s onwards, carried out almost exclusively within the frame of the Merce Cunningham Dance Company. Tackling the question of how much creative flexibility Tudor was granted, Iddon includes detailed examples of the ways in which Tudor realised Cage's work, especially focusing on Music of Changes to Variations II, to show how composer and pianist influenced one another's methods and styles.-
The Graph Music of Morton Feldman
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The Royal College of Music and its Contexts
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Stravinsky's Piano
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Prokofiev's Soviet Operas
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Yugoslav Avant-Garde Music, 1945–1991
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Music and Protest in 1968
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Musical Witness and Holocaust Representation
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Stravinsky and the Russian Period
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New Music at Darmstadt
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The Spectral Piano
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Britten's Unquiet Pasts
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Transformations of Musical Modernism
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French Music and Jazz in Conversation
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Music in Germany since 1968
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Schoenberg's Atonal Music
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Elliott Carter's Late Music
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Alan Bush, Modern Music, and the Cold War
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Performance Practice in the Music of Steve Reich
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John Cage and Peter Yates
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British Musical Modernism
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Schoenberg's Twelve-Tone Music
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Avant-Garde on Record
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Harrison Birtwistle's Operas and Music Theatre
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The Orchestral Music of Michael Tippett
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Luigi Dallapiccola and Musical Modernism in Fascist Italy
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Gerard Grisey and Spectral Music
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Ideology in Britten's Operas
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Lateness and Modernism
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Peter Maxwell Davies, Selected Writings
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The Musical Language of Pierre Boulez
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Luigi Nono
' one is impressed by both Tudor's commitment and Iddon's persistence RecommendedUpper-level undergraduates and above; general readers.' J. Behrens, Choice
Martin Iddon is Associate Professor of Music at the University of Leeds. He previously lectured at University College Cork and Lancaster University, and studied composition and musicology at the Universities of Durham and Cambridge. His musicological research largely focuses on post-war music in Germany and the United States of America and has been published in numerous leading journals, including Musical Quarterly, twentieth-century music and the Contemporary Music Review. His music has been performed in Europe, North America and Australasia and has been featured on BBC Radio 3, Radio New Zealand and the Österreichischer Rundfunk.
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| ISBN 13 | 9781107014329 |
| ISBN 10 | 1107014328 |
| Title | John Cage and David Tudor |
| Author | Martin Iddon |
| Series | Music Since 1900 |
| Condition | Unavailable |
| Binding Type | Hardback |
| Publisher | Cambridge University Press |
| Year published | 2013-03-07 |
| Number of pages | 240 |
| Cover note | Book picture is for illustrative purposes only, actual binding, cover or edition may vary. |
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