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Record Nr.

UNINA9910461381403321

Titolo

The farthest place [[electronic resource] ] : the music of John Luther Adams / / edited by Bernd Herzogenrath

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Boston, : Northeastern University Press, c2012

ISBN

1-280-49137-X

9786613586605

1-55553-764-2

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (321 p.)

Altri autori (Persone)

HerzogenrathBernd <1964->

Disciplina

780.92

Soggetti

Music appreciation

Electronic books.

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Description based upon print version of record.

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Nota di contenuto

Song of the earth / Alex Ross -- Music as place, place as music : the sonic geography of John Luther Adams / Sabine Feisst -- Time at the end of the world : the orchestral tetralogy of John Luther Adams / Kyle gann -- For Lou Harrison / Peter Garland -- Strange noise, sacred places / Steven Schick -- Go there to listen : how music based on nature might not need natural sounds / David Rothenberg -- The thunder that smokes / Glenn Kotche -- How do you play with an aura? The mathematics of resonant bodies / Robert Esler -- Qilyaun / Scott Deal -- The color field music of John Luther Adams / Todd Tarantino -- The light within / Molly Sheridan -- Timbral listening in dark waves / Dave Herr -- Place and space : the vision of John Luther Adams in the ultramodernist tradition / Robert Carl -- The weather of music : sounding nature in the twentieth and twenty-first centuries / Bernd Herzogenrath -- Songbirdsongs and Inuksuit : creating an ecocentric music / David Shimoni -- A catalogue of works by and about John Luther Adams.

Sommario/riassunto

The first critical anthology of an important and singular contemporary composer