Music of Anthony Braxton

1. Auflage 2001
ISBN: 978-0-935016-18-5
Verlag: Routledge

Buch, Englisch, 500 Seiten, Format (B × H): 156 mm x 234 mm, Gewicht: 752 g

First Published in 2001. For three decades, Anthony Braxton has been alternately celebrated, dismissed, and attacked for his musical innovations. His ambitious efforts to reconcile and personalize the historically divergent and often conflicting worldviews and principles of African-American (jazz), American Experimental (post-Ives), and Western European (post-serial) traditions have attracted both loyal supporters and passionate critics. Mike Heffley has followed Braxton's widely varied music from its beginning, and in 1988 began a professional musical relationship with him. His biography of Braxton's music is just that-a look at the music as if it were a living entity, with a traceable ancestry, a describable place in the world, and a history full of drama, intrigue, and passion. The music scholar will find here all the information necessary to understand the contents, contexts, and concepts of Braxton's music, and to further that understanding. The general reader will find the human and trans-human qualities that make the music so compelling to its makers and lovers.

Autoren/Hrsg.

Heffley, Mike

Fachgebiete

• Geisteswissenschaften Musikwissenschaft Musikinstrumente Blasinstrumente

Inhaltsverzeichnis

Figures Acknowledgments Introduction: Millennial/Gravitational Intrigue first arrow.from the bow of the past Evocation The Music's Grandparents The Music's Parents second arrow.on the string of the present Invocation The Musician's Words The Musician Speaks third arrow.in the five fingers of the archer Provocation The Solo Music's Axis (Tradition/Innovation) fourth arrow.whistling through the air of the future Duo Music Trio Music Quartet Music Large-Ensemble Music fifth arrow.in the eye of the bull The Music's Muse Appendix: Anthony Braxton: Introduction to Catalogue of Works Sources Index

Über Autor(innen)

MIKE HEFFLEY is a trombonist/composer, journalist, arts administrator, and ethnomusicologist. The author of numerous works on jazz and new music, Heffley is Executive Director of Braxton's Tri-Centric Foundation.