George Crumb & the alchemy of sound
Subtitle: essays on his music
By: edited by Steven Bruns & Ofer Ben-Amots ; Michael D. Grace, general editor.
Contributors: Bruns, Steven, 1957-; Ben-Amots, Ofer.; Grace, Michael D.
Publisher: Colorado College Music Press
Published: 2005
Place of publication: Colorado Springs, Colo
Language: eng
Number of pages: 360
ISBN-13: 9780935052077
Subjects: Crumb, George -- Criticism and interpretation.
Other titles: George Crumb and the alchemy of sound
Notes: "...conceived in honor of George Crumb's seventy-fifth birthday..."--p. [v].

Includes works list and discography.

Erratum: "The author's name for article no. 4: Dialectical relations among pitch structures in the music of George Crumb is incorrect.  It was printed as Edward Piersall. The correct spelling is Edward Pearsall."

Includes bibliographical references.
Table of contents: title: George Crumb : an appreciation / James M. Keller; title: George Crumb and Federico García Lorca : transposing a poetic pastiche into a musical mosaic / Linda L. Elman; title: Where's that sound coming from? : John Cage, George Crumb, and the world of timbre / Andrew Stiller; title: Dialectical relations among pitch structures in the music of George Crumb / Edward Piersall; title: Form and temporal proportions in George Crumb's Ancient voices of children / William E. Lake; title: Les adieux : Haydn, Mahler, and George Crumb's Night of the four moons / Steven Bruns; title: Crumb's A little suite for Christmas, A.D. 1979, Giotto's frescoes for the Arena Chapel of Padua, and the art of Empfindsamkeit / Michael D. Grace; title: The case of the silent G : pitch structure and proportions in the theme of George Crumb's Gnomic variations / Richard Bass; title: Debussy, Crumb, and musical borrowing in An idyll for the misbegotten / Tracey Schmidt; title: An improbably transcription crafting a horn version of An idyll for the misbegotten / Robert Patterson; title: "Meta-counterpoint" in George Crumb's music : exploring surface and depths in Vox balaenae (Voice of the whale) / Russell Steinberg; title: Integrating analytical approaches to George Crumb's Madrigals, book I, no. 3 / Dave Headlam; title: George Crumb : a personal recollection / Don Gillespie.