Slonimsky / Yourke Perfect Pitch, Third Revised Edition

An Autobiography
Third Revised Auflage
ISBN: 978-1-4384-9165-3
Verlag: De Gruyter
Format: EPUB
Kopierschutz: Adobe DRM (»Systemvoraussetzungen)

E-Book, Englisch, 480 Seiten, Format (B × H): 152 mm x 229 mm

Reihe: Excelsior Editions

The autobiography of one of the 20th century’s most innovative and wittiest composers/performers/authors who witnessed the birth of modern music.

Autoren/Hrsg.

Slonimsky, Nicolas

Yourke, Electra Slonimsky

Fachgebiete

• Wirtschaftswissenschaften Wirtschaftssektoren & Branchen Medien-, Informations und Kommunikationswirtschaft Musikindustrie
• Geisteswissenschaften Musikwissenschaft Musikwissenschaft Allgemein

Inhaltsverzeichnis

List of Illustrations
Preface
Electra Slonimsky Yourke
A Note about This Edition

I. Perfect Pitch

1. St. Petersburg

2. My Grandfather Invented the Telegraph

3. Joyless Youth, Joyful Revolution

4. Exodus

5. Paris

6. Rochester

7. Koussevitzkiana

8. Boston Beginnings

9. Three Places in New England

10. Time Out

11. Disaster in Hollywood

12. Puella

13. Lofty Baton to Lowly Pen

14. Jailed Friend

15. Exotic Journeys

16. Interpolation: Grossmutterakkord

17. Back in the Family Fold

18. America Loves Russia

19. I, Diaskeuast!

20. Fame and Fortune

21. The Future of My Past

22. California, Here I Come

23. The Age of Absurdity

II. Oral History and Other Writings

Oral History

Edgard Varèse
1. Conversation with Nicolas Slonimsky on Edgard Varèse
2. Analysis of Ionisation

Heitor Villa-Lobos
1. A Visit
2. The Flamboyant Chanticleer

Cultural Explosion in the U.S.S.R.

Lexicographis Secundus Post Herculem Labor

Index

Über Autor(innen)

Nicolas Slonimsky (1894–1995) was a Russian-born United-States-based writer, lexicographer, pianist, composer, conductor, and champion of contemporary music. His many books include Thesaurus Of Scales And Melodic Patterns; and Lexicon of Musical Invective: Critical Assaults on Composers Since Beethoven's Time.