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Record Nr.

UNINA9910465363403321

Autore

Iddon Martin <1975->

Titolo

John Cage and David Tudor : correspondence on interpretation and performance / / Martin Iddon [[electronic resource]]

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Cambridge : , : Cambridge University Press, , 2013

ISBN

1-107-23502-2

1-107-30135-1

1-107-50780-4

1-107-30557-8

1-139-01372-6

1-107-30644-2

1-107-30864-X

1-107-31419-4

1-299-25724-0

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (xiii, 225 pages) : digital, PDF file(s)

Collana

Music since 1900

Disciplina

780.92/2

Soggetti

Composers

Pianists

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Title from publisher's bibliographic system (viewed on 05 Oct 2015).

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Nota di contenuto

The music of chance -- Correspondence, 1951-1953 -- Determining the determinate -- Determining the indeterminate -- Correspondence, 1958-1962 -- (In)determining the indeterminate -- Correspondence, 1965-1989 -- 'Late' realizations -- Praxis and poiesis in indeterminate music.

Sommario/riassunto

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.