The Musical Experience of Composer, Performer, Listener

Sessions, Roger

ISBN 10: 069102703X / ISBN 13: 9780691027036

Published by Princeton University Press, Princeton, NJ, 1974

About this Item

12mo 127pp. see pictures for synopsis. #02542. Book VG: mild shelf wear to wraps, name on half title page, text clean, binding tight, excellent reading copy.

Seller Inventory # 2477

Bibliographic Details

• Title: The Musical Experience of Composer, Performer, Listener
• Publisher: Princeton University Press, Princeton, NJ
• Publication Date: 1974
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 069102703X
• ISBN 13: 9780691027036
• Binding: softcover
• Seller catalogs:
  • music
  • nonfiction

About this title

Synopsis

One of America's foremost contemporary composers, professor of music at the University of California, Roger Sessions here discusses the musical experience of the composer, the performer, the listener. He believes this experience to be shared, on in which all three participants play vital roles, and in this book he speaks especially to the listener.

Mr. Sessions finds that the artist-public relationships has been shifted to that of producer and consumer in big business. But his reply to his own question about a threat to the future of music is both a challenge and an expression of hope. A fascinating little book that will be read with pleasure by people at all levels of musical education.

Originally published in 1950.

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