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Zusatztext "There is no other such study so thorough! indeed no other collection of primary materials which approaches this one in depth. Nor a study full of such useful and informative contextualisation and commentary for that matter. It's a major contribution to its specific area! and to scholarship on one of the major fields in twentieth century musical development. Very well produced! it carries a strong recommendation." --Classical Net Informationen zum Autor Martin Iddon is Associate Professor of Music at the University of Leeds. He previously lectured at University College Cork and Lancaster University, and studied composition and musicology at the Universities of Durham and Cambridge. His musicological research largely focuses on post-war music in Germany and the United States of America and has been published in numerous leading journals, including Musical Quarterly, twentieth-century music and the Contemporary Music Review. His music has been performed in Europe, North America and Australasia and has been featured on BBC Radio 3, Radio New Zealand and the Österreichischer Rundfunk. Klappentext Martin Iddon discusses one of the twentieth century's most provocative musical collaborations: between composer John Cage and pianist David Tudor. Zusammenfassung Martin Iddon's book is the first volume to collect John Cage's complete correspondence with his closest collaborator! the pianist David Tudor. Iddon tackles the question of how much creative flexibility Tudor was granted when performing Cage's notorious indeterminate and chance-guided works! from Music of Changes to Variations II. Inhaltsverzeichnis 1. The music of chance; 2. Correspondence, 1951-3; 3. Determining the determinate; 4. Determining the indeterminate; 5. Correspondence, 1958-62; 6. (In)determining the indeterminate; 7. Correspondence, 1965-89; 8. 'Late' realizations; 9. Praxis and poiesis in indeterminate music.
