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"Robert Erickson's music bristles with the quintessential virtues of modernist American composers: intelligence, good humor, lyricism, rich sonorities, inventive sound-colors. It is firmly rooted in a thorough understanding of all musics now available, from ancient Greece to Webern, Varese, and John Cage - not ignoring the music of Indonesia, Africa, and the Far East. Yet it speaks with a characteristically American voice, direct and good-natured, attuned to the vernacular, never condescending to its audiences."--BOOK JACKET. "Thinking Sound Music looks at this fascinating man and his music. An absorbing narrative traces Erickson's childhood influences; his studies with the Austrian modernist Ernst Krenek; his dislocating, often amusing experiences during the Depression and in the army in World War II; the academic politics in Erickson's early teaching career in Berkeley and San Francisco; and his role in establishing pioneering experimental music studios at the San Francisco Conservatory and the University of California at San Diego."--BOOK JACKET. "In a detailed, nontechnical survey of Erickson's music - from the early, tentative pieces for chorus through the experimental tape co

Author

Charles Shere, John Rockwell

Publisher

Berkeley, Calif.: Fallen Leaf Press

Published

1995

Language

EN

ISBN

9780914913337

Subjects

Music, Arts