Colin McPhee : Composer in Two Worlds

Name: Colin McPhee
Brand: University of Illinois Press
SKU: 9780252071805
Price: 4550 KES
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ISBN: 9780252071805

by Carol J. Oja

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Format Paperback / softback

Book Series Music in American Life

ISBN-10 0252071808

ISBN-13 9780252071805

Publisher University of Illinois Press

Imprint University of Illinois Press

Country of Manufacture US

Country of Publication GB

Publication Date Feb 26th, 2004

Print length 376 Pages

Weight 634 grams

Dimensions 15.30 x 22.90 x 2.90 cms

Product Classification: 20th century & contemporary classical music Individual composers & musicians, specific bands & groups Art music, orchestral and formal music Composers and songwriters

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Traces the life, influences on fellow musicians, and struggles of a pioneer among American composers who turned to the island of Bali for inspiration. Presenting an unconventional life, this title is designed for scholars, musicians or those interested in 20th century American or Balinese music.

Colin McPhee was a performer, writer, and pioneer among Western composers in turning to Asia for inspiration. A close friend of Aaron Copland, Carlos Chavez, Henry Cowell, and Virgil Thomson, he played a vital role in new music activities in New York in the 1920s. But his most important accomplishments emerged from his devotion to the music of Bali.

After hearing rare recordings of the Balinese gamelan--a percussion orchestra with delicately layered textures and clangorous sounds--McPhee traveled to Bali to learn more. There, he worked closely with Western anthropologists like Margaret Mead and Gregory Bateson. McPhee became a devoted and meticulous chronicler of Balinese musical culture in classic texts like Music of Bali while integrating Balinese and Western music into an imaginative hybrid that anticipated work by John Cage, Lou Harrison, and Steve Reich.

A fascinating portrait of an unconventional artist-scholar, Colin McPhee evocatively looks at key issues in composition and ethnomusicology while describing the profound experience of a composer striving to comprehend a new musical language.

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