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The music of Morton Feldman / edited by Thomas DeLio.

Contributor(s): DeLio, Thomas, 1951-.
Material type: materialTypeLabelBookSeries: Contributions to the study of music and dance, no. 36; Profiles of American composers.Publisher: Westport, Conn. : Greenwood Press, 1996Description: xvi, 242 p. : ill. ; 23 cm. + hbk.ISBN: 0313298033.Subject(s): Feldman, Morton, 1926- -- Criticism and interpretation | Musical analysisDDC classification: 780.92 FEL
Contents:
Scenario for M.F. / John Cage -- The Feldman paradoxes / Herman Sabbe -- Analytical investigations -- The composer's voice : three essays / by Morton Feldman.
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Enhanced descriptions from Syndetics:

Morton Feldman (1926-1987) is today widely regarded as one of America's foremost experimental composers. His unique body of compositions, as well as his numerous writings and interviews, provide a vast amount of source material for scholarly research. Yet, few have seriously examined his work. This collection of essays will help rectify this situation.

This book begins with a brief work by John Cage written in honor of Morton Feldman. It is followed by a series of essays that challenge some views of Feldman's music and clarify many others. The collection concludes with a selection of essays written by the composer himself; these essays reveal as much about Feldman's own work and attitudes as they do about the work and thought of the many composers and artists about whom he wrote. The volume concludes with a list of Feldman's compositions, a bibliography, and a discography. This study, the first of a series of Profiles of American Composers, will be invaluable to musicologists and all involved with the music of the 20th century.

"Compositions": p. 219-223.

Discography: p. 231-233.

Includes bibliographical references (p. 227-228) and index.

Scenario for M.F. / John Cage -- The Feldman paradoxes / Herman Sabbe -- Analytical investigations -- The composer's voice : three essays / by Morton Feldman.

Table of contents provided by Syndetics

  • Introduction by Thomas DeLio
  • Scenario of M.F.
  • The Feldman Paradoxes: A Deconstructionist View of Musical Aesthetics
  • Projection I (1950)
  • Last Pieces #3 (1959)
  • Three Clarinets, Cello, and Piano (1971)
  • Piano (1977)
  • For John Cage (1982)
  • The Composer's Voice: Three Essays
  • List of Compositions
  • Bibliography
  • Discography
  • Index

Reviews provided by Syndetics

CHOICE Review

Feldman (1926-87) is an indisputably important composer in a radical American empirical tradition extending back through Edgard Varese and Charles Ives. The hallmarks of his style are his soft, slow, and gradual coalescence of sounds or elemental patterns of sounds into composition from conventional length to several hours. The heart of this collection consists of five essays (each on a composition, spanning Feldman's career): "Projection I (1950)," by John Welsh; "Last Pieces #3 (1959)," by DeLio; "Three Clarinets, Cello and Piano (1971)," Michael Hamman; "Piano (1977)," Paula K. Ames; and "For John Cage (1982)," Wes York. These "analytical investigations" are not simply detailed structural descriptions; they contain valuable synoptic information about Feldman's style and aesthetics as well as notational and performance practices. Included also are a set of "mesostics" by John Cage on Feldman's name; a penetrating essay by Herman Sabbe, "The Feldman Paradoxes: A Deconstructionist View of Musical Aesthetics"; and three charmingly informative essays (previously published) by Feldman himself, which reveal his aesthetics, compositional practice, and close association with the New York abstract painters. An important contribution to music aesthetics and composition; recommended for all libraries serving upper-division undergraduates and above. W. K. Kearns University of Colorado at Boulder

Author notes provided by Syndetics

THOMAS DeLIO is a composer and theorist. He has written and edited numerous publications on contemporary music. He is currently a member of the faculty of the Music Department at the University of Maryland at College Park.