Arcana VI
Subtitle: musicians on music
By: edited by John Zorn
Publisher: Hips Road
Published: 2012
Place of publication: New York, NY
Language: eng
Number of pages: 305
ISBN-13: 9780978833756
Subjects: Musicians as authors; History and criticism; Music
Other titles: Arcana 6; Arcana six; Musicians on music
Notes: "About the contributors": p. 283-299.

Includes discography (pages 300-305).

Includes bibliographical references and discography (pages 300-305).
Table of contents: title: Rants  -- Richard "Duck" Baker; title: The outcome is unforeseen : some preliminary notes  -- Eve Beglarian; title: Music mind at the stone and beyond  -- Karl Berger; title: In search of the new density  -- Claire Chase; title: Blank screen  -- Anna Clyne & Elizabeth Tasker; title: Building music  -- John Corigliano; title: Life preserver/In the wilderness  -- Jeremiah Cymerman; title: To [re]think of Milton Babbitt  -- David Fulmer; title: Behind the mask, or, I didn't know what time it was  -- Jeff Gauthier; title: Performance and interpretation  -- Alan Gilbert; title: We are all Beethoven  -- Judd Greenstein; title: Troubadours' dilemmas  -- Hilary Hahn; title: The invented horizon is free  -- Mary Halvorson; title: How I came to write a few songs  -- Jesse Harris; title: Death speaks  -- David Lang; title: Why do I write music the way I do?  -- Mary Jane Leach; title: Spectral music as a framework for improvisation  -- Stephen Lehman; title: Righting wrong notes  -- Steven Mackey; title: "He said what?"  -- Rudresh Mahanthappa; title: China diary  -- Denman Maroney; title: Rock hemiolas  -- Brad Mehldau; title: Process, creativity and planetary returns  -- Jessica Pavone; title: Old and lost muses  -- Tobias Picker; title: Dreamy bits  -- Gyan Riley; title: Lines in red sand  -- Jon Rose; title: To a gathering of percussionists  -- Steven Schick; title: Lelewå : memoirs of a bone and voice tracer  -- Jen Shyu; title: Flukey concatenations  -- David Taylor; title: Some memories of John Cage  -- Richard Teitelbaum; title: John Henry  -- Julia Wolfe; title: Wollesonics  -- Kenny Wollesen; title: Small, still voice  -- Nate Wooley; title: A note on BBM -- Charles Wuorinen.