John Lely James Saunders (15 results)

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Paperback. Condition: Very Good. A nice, bright copy. ; 4to ; 456 pages.

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Paperback. Condition: New. This is an outstanding collection of text scores from key composers and artists, as well as original essays and interviews offering guidance and lucid analysis. "Word Events" focuses on an approach to notation that uses the written word, as opposed to symbols, to convey information to whoever chooses to interpret the notation. Verbal notation is commonly used in experimental music, as well as related areas of arts practice involving performance or object making. Practitioners point to a number of reasons for using it: notation with written words is accessible to a wide range of people, including those who cannot read traditional Western stave notation; it can express temporal relationships between elements of a composition in a flexible way; it makes association with other writing contexts, such as poetry, prose, instructions, recipes, koans and aphorisms; it can express ideas with great precision; it can express generalities; it can determine many different types of relationships between the scorer and reader; and, it can express ideas and concepts as well as providing prescriptions for action.The aim of this book is to present a broad range of perspectives on how and why scorers use verbal notation.…

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Paperback. Condition: New. This is an outstanding collection of text scores from key composers and artists, as well as original essays and interviews offering guidance and lucid analysis. "Word Events" focuses on an approach to notation that uses the written word, as opposed to symbols, to convey information to whoever chooses to interpret the notation. Verbal notation is commonly used in experimental music, as well as related areas of arts practice involving performance or object making. Practitioners point to a number of reasons for using it: notation with written words is accessible to a wide range of people, including those who cannot read traditional Western stave notation; it can express temporal relationships between elements of a composition in a flexible way; it makes association with other writing contexts, such as poetry, prose, instructions, recipes, koans and aphorisms; it can express ideas with great precision; it can express generalities; it can determine many different types of relationships between the scorer and reader; and, it can express ideas and concepts as well as providing prescriptions for action.The aim of this book is to present a broad range of perspectives on how and why scorers use verbal notation.…

First edition. 456 pp., 7 x 10 inches. Perfect-bound in printed card covers, with more than 150 black-and-white illustrations. New. Word Events features more than 170 scores, many printed here for the first time, representing the works of more than 50 practitioners, including such seminal figures as George Brecht, John Cage, Cornelius Cardew, Tony Conrad, Sol LeWitt, Pauline Oliveros, Yoko Ono, Steve Reich, Erik Satie, Karlheinz Stockhausen, Christian Wolff, and La Monte Young. Also well represented is a new generation of artists, including Antoine Beuger, Seth Kim-Cohen, Michael Pisaro, and Jennifer Walshe, for whom verbal notation is a medium of choice. . . . Commentaries explore the compositional strategies and performance practice of particular works, including previously hard-to-find texts by Lawrence Halprin and Kenneth Maue, together with many new statements from and interviews with composers, artists, and performers.…

Condition: New. Dieser Artikel ist ein Print on Demand Artikel und wird nach Ihrer Bestellung fuer Sie gedruckt. Verbal notation is commonly used in experimental music, as well as related areas of arts practice involving performance or object making. This book focuses on an approach to notation that uses the written word, as opposed to symbols, to convey information t.…