Changing the system : the music of Christian Wolff / edited by Stephen Chase, Philip Thomas

Innehåller verkförteckning, bibliografi och diskografi

'Our Webern' : Cage and Feldman's devotion to Christian Wolff / Michael Hicks -- Christian Wolff in Darmstadt, 1972 and 1974 / Amy C. Beal -- For pianist : the solo piano music / Philip Thomas -- Mutual effects : organization and interaction in the orchestral music of Christian Wolff / James Saunders -- Exercising the ensemble : some thoughts on the later music of Christian Wolff / Christopher Fox -- Changing the system : indeterminacy and politics in the early 1970s / David Ryan -- 'There is always a time : words, music, politics and voice / Stephen Chase -- Prose collection : the performer and listener as co-creator / Clemens Gresser -- Playing the game? Five reflections upon performing Christian Wolff's music / Philip Thomas ; List of Works ; Bibliography ; Discography ; Index

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