Musings: The Musical Worlds Of Gunther Schuller by Gunther Schuller (English) Pa

Description: Musings by Gunther Schuller This volume contains the essays, speeches, liner notes, dictionary entries and magazine articles of Gunther Schuller. The writings cover such artists as Paul Whiteman, Duke Ellington and Sarah Vaughn and topics like the "Third Stream", the art of conducting and the future of opera. FORMAT Paperback LANGUAGE English CONDITION Brand New Publisher Description Musings gathers together the essays, speeches, liner notes, dictionary entries, and magazine articles of Gunther Schuller, one of the most important musical figures of the century. The writings in this collection cover such artists as Paul Whiteman, Duke Ellington, Cecil Taylor, Ornette Coleman, Sonny Rollins, Sarah Vaughan, Gil Evans. Schuller also writes about such topics as the "Third Stream," the art of conducting, the future of opera, and the need for broadening the audience for quality music. A marvellous introduction to the man and his experience, taste and erudition, Musings is essential reading for anyone interested in twentieth-century music. Author Biography Gunther Schuller is a conductor, composer, scholar, educator, writer, and music publisher. He is the author of several books on music, including Early Jazz: Its Roots and Musical Development, The Swing Era: The Development of Jazz, and The Compleat Conductor. He lives in Massachusetts. Table of Contents * I Jazz and the Third Stream * Jazz * The Future of Form in Jazz * What Makes Jazz Jazz? * James Reese Europe * The Orchestrators Challenge * Happy Feet: A Tribute to Paul Whiteman * Ellington in the Pantheon * Ellington vis-a-vis the Swing Era * The Case for Ellingtons Music as Living Repertory * Cecil Taylor: Two Early Recordings * Ornette Coleman * Ornette Colemans Compositions * Sonny Rollins and the Challenge of Thematic Improvisation * Lee Konitz * The Divine Sarah * Gil Evans * Alec Wilder * Third Stream * Third Stream Revisited * The Avant-Garde and Third Stream * Composing for Orchestra * II Music Performance and Contemporary Music * American Performance and New Music * Conducting Revisited * The Future of Opera * Toward a New Classicism? * The State of American Orchestras * Program Notes - Various * Still More Program Notes - on Others * Concerning My Opera The Visitation * III Music Aesthetics and Education * The Compleat Musician in the Complete Conservatory * Qualitative Evaluation in the Arts * The State of Our Art * Form, Content, and Symbol * Form and Aesthetics in Twentieth-Century Music Review "[Schuller is] an extremely knowledgeable, versatile, and thought-provoking figure on the American musical scene". -- Choice Kirkus US Review A tedious preachy collection of lectures, musical anthology biographical sketches and program notes, covering both classical and jazz, by the multifaceted musician, composer and music publisher. Schuller addresses his uninspired and blandly generalized voice to an unrelenting defense of the "balance of the old with the new, of the traditional with the experimental, of the expressive with the intellectual, of the need to communicate with the need to try the unheard, the unseen, the unproven." The result reads like the dull introductory lecture to an undergraduate liberal arts symposium. The author chastises everyone, from arrogant purists so addicted to 19th century musical traditions that they are blinded to modern musical innovations, to narrow-minded jazzmen ignorant of the great lessons available from their classical predecessors. He scolds dogmatic educators for their failure to stretch beyond 19th century preconceptions of musical education, thus creating lazy and inept modern musicians, and he berates current symphony conductors for failure to create "ideal" ensembles. He resents the "doomsayers" who gloomily predict the demise of "grand opera" and the symphony orchestra, and warns ominously of the "union" mentality which allows financial concerns to turn ensembles into business conglomerates, thus robbing them of "art." Schullers self-righteous armchair analysis offers a longwinded, mundane manifesto of generalities. At one point he admits "I have no theories to advance or advocate here, no innovations to propagate or defend," which explains the weakness of this dull collection. (Kirkus Reviews) Long Description Musings gathers together the essays, speeches, liner notes, dictionary entries, and magazine articles of Gunther Schuller, one of the most important musical figures of the century. The writings in this collection cover such artists as Paul Whiteman, Duke Ellington, Cecil Taylor, Ornette Coleman, Sonny Rollins, Sarah Vaughan, Gil Evans. Schuller also writes about such topics as the "Third Stream," the art of conducting, the future of opera, and the need for broadening the audience for quality music. A marvellous introduction to the man and his experience, taste and erudition, Musings is essential reading for anyone interested in twentieth-century music. Details ISBN0306809028 Author Gunther Schuller Short Title MUSINGS Language English ISBN-10 0306809028 ISBN-13 9780306809026 Media Book Format Paperback Illustrations Yes Year 1999 Imprint Da Capo Press Inc Place of Publication Cambridge, MA Residence MA, US Subtitle The Musical Worlds Of Gunther Schuller Country of Publication United States DOI 10.1604/9780306809026 UK Release Date 1999-05-07 US Release Date 1999-05-07 Pages 324 Publisher Hachette Books Publication Date 1999-05-07 DEWEY 780.92 Audience General NZ Release Date 1999-05-06 AU Release Date 1999-05-06 We've got this At The Nile, if you're looking for it, we've got it. 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