Barney Childs (58 results)

Paperback. Condition: Good. This anthology of essays, interviews, and autobiographical pieces provides an invaluable overview of the evolution of contemporary music-from chromaticism, serialism, and indeterminacy to jazz, vernacular, electronic, and non-Western influences. Featuring classic essays by Stravinsky, Stockhausen, and Reich, as well as writings by lesser-known but equally innovative composers such as Jack Beeson, Richard Maxfield, and T. J. Anderson, this collection covers a broad range of styles and approaches. Here you will find Busoni's influential Sketch of a New Esthetic of Music; Partch's exploration of a new notation system; Babbitt's defense of advanced composition in his controversial Who Cares If You Listen?; and Pauline Oliveros's meditations on sound. Now updated with fifteen new composers including Michael Tippet, Gy rgy Ligeti, Gunther Schuller, Ben Johnston, Sofia Gubaidulina, and William Bolcom, this important book gathers together forty-nine pieces-many out of print and some newly written for this volume-which serve as a documentary history of twentieth-century music, in theory and practice. Impassioned, provocative, and eloquent, these writings are as exciting and diverse as the music they discuss.…

Condition: Good. [ No Hassle 30 Day Returns ][ Ships Daily ] [ Underlining/Highlighting: NONE ] [ Writing: NONE ] [ Edition: Reprint ] Publisher: Westview Press Pub Date: 4/1/1998 Binding: Paperback Pages: 512 Reprint edition.

paperback. Condition: Very Good. Connecting readers with great books since 1972! Used books may not include companion materials, and may have some shelf wear or limited writing. We ship orders daily and Customer Service is our top priority.

Condition: Good. (rev)98 Edition. Pages intact with minimal writing/highlighting. The binding may be loose and creased. Dust jackets/supplements are not included. Stock photo provided. Product includes identifying sticker. Better World Books: Buy Books. Do Good.

Paperback. Condition: Very Good. Connecting readers with great books since 1972! Used books may not include companion materials, and may have some shelf wear or limited writing. We ship orders daily and Customer Service is our top priority.

Condition: Good. (rev)98 Edition. Pages intact with minimal writing/highlighting. The binding may be loose and creased. Dust jackets/supplements are not included. Stock photo provided. Product includes identifying sticker. Better World Books: Buy Books. Do Good.

Condition: Very Good. (rev)98 Edition. Former library copy. Pages intact with possible writing/highlighting. Binding strong with minor wear. Dust jackets/supplements may not be included. Includes library markings. Stock photo provided. Product includes identifying sticker. Better World Books: Buy Books. Do Good.…

Condition: Good. (rev)98 Edition. Former library copy. Pages intact with minimal writing/highlighting. The binding may be loose and creased. Dust jackets/supplements are not included. Includes library markings. Stock photo provided. Product includes identifying sticker. Better World Books: Buy Books. Do Good.…

softcover. Condition: Nearly fine copy. Revised ed. 8vo, 484 pp.

Condition: Good. Pages intact with minimal writing/highlighting. The binding may be loose and creased. Dust jackets/supplements are not included. Stock photo provided. Product includes identifying sticker. Better World Books: Buy Books. Do Good.

Paperback. Condition: Very Good. tight, uncreased spine, pages clear and bright, shelf and edge wear, corners bumped, packaged in cardboard box for shipment, tracking on U.S. orders.

Condition: Fair. This is an ex-library book and may have the usual library/used-book markings inside.This book has soft covers. Book contains pencil markings. In fair condition, suitable as a study copy. Please note the Image in this listing is a stock photo and may not match the covers of the actual item,850grams, ISBN:9780306808197.…

Hardcover. Condition: Acceptable. Dust Jacket Condition: FAIR. First edition. Hardcover in unclipped jacket. Stated First Edition. Previous owner's name/sticker inside front cover. Random underlining and notes in margins with pencil. Top edges tinted black which matches the black and gold cloth boards. Glossy paper dust jacket has tears along top leading edge and rear top edge and both are lightly curled. A few light stains on leading edges.…

Condition: New.

Condition: As New. Unread book in perfect condition.

Hardcover. Condition: Good. No Jacket. 1978 Da Capo Press hardcover; light cover wear; pages clean/tight; good condition.

Paperback. Condition: New. This anthology of essays, interviews, and autobiographical pieces provides an invaluable overview of the evolution of contemporary music,from chromaticism, serialism, and indeterminacy to jazz, vernacular, electronic, and non-Western influences. Featuring classic essays by Stravinsky, Stockhausen, and Reich, as well as writings by lesser-known but equally innovative composers such as Jack Beeson, Richard Maxfield, and T. J. Anderson, this collection covers a broad range of styles and approaches. Here you will find Busoni's influential "Sketch of a New Esthetic of Music" Partch's exploration of a new notation system Babbitt's defence of advanced composition in his controversial "Who Cares If You Listen?" and Pauline Oliveros's meditations on sound. Now updated with fifteen new composers including Michael Tippet, György Ligeti, Gunther Schuller, Ben Johnston, Sofia Gubaidulina, and William Bolcom, this important book gathers together forty-nine pieces,many out of print and some newly written for this volume,which serve as a documentary history of twentieth-century music, in theory and practice. Impassioned, provocative, and eloquent, these writings are as exciting and diverse as the music they discuss.…

Staplebound wraps. Condition: Good. Offprint from Texas Studies in Literature and Language: A Journal of the Humanities, Vol. VII, No. 3, Fall 1966, pp. [423]-445. Inscribed by signed ("BC") by author. Spine and corners bumped; wrappers edgeworn, sunned, lightly soiled and stained.

Paperback. Condition: New.

Paperback. Condition: Very Good. The cover has a little wear. The page edges are lightly foxed. The first page has a name inscription from a previous onwer. The last few pages have a circle of tanning. 484 pages. Books listed here are not stored at the shop. Please contact us if you want to pick up a book from Newtown.…

Condition: New.

Condition: New.

Condition: As New. Unread book in perfect condition.

Condition: New.

hardcover. Condition: Good. HARDCOVER Good - Bumped and creased book with tears to the extremities, but not affecting the text block, may have remainder mark or previous owner's name - GOOD Standard-sized.

hardback. Condition: Fine. … on Contemporary Music.1st ed. NY (Holt Rinehart Winston) 1967. Inscription on e/p else fine in dust wrapper.

Hardcover. First Edition. 375pp. Very good plus condition with text clean and binding sound / very good plus dust jacket which is now in a clear protective mylar sleeve.

Condition: New.

Hardback. Condition: New. In 1972-73, Barney Childs embarked on an ambitious attempt to survey the landscape of new American concert music. He recorded freewheeling conversations with fellow composers, most of them under forty, all of them important but most not yet famous. Though unable to publish the interviews in his lifetime, Childs had gathered invaluable dialogues with the likes of Robert Ashley, Olly Wilson, Harold Budd, Christian Wolff, and others. Virginia Anderson edits the first published collection of these conversations. She pairs each interview with a contextual essay by a contemporary expert that shows how the composer's discussion with Childs fits into his life and work. Together, the interviewees cover a broad range of ideas and concerns around topics like education, notation, developments in electronic music, changing demands on performers, and tonal music.Innovative and revealing, Interviews with American Composers is an artistic and historical snapshot of American music at an important crossroads.…

HRD. Condition: New. New Book. Shipped from UK. Established seller since 2000.