The percussionists art
Subtitle: same bed, different dreams
By: Steven Schick ; foreword by Paul Griffiths.
Publisher: University of Rochester Press
Published: 2006
Place of publication: Rochester, NY
Language: eng
Number of pages: 248
Subjects: Percussion music -- Analysis, appreciation.; Percussion instruments -- Performance.
Description: "The Percussionist's Art: Same Bed, Different Dreams examines major works from the solo and chamber repertoire for percussion, from Edgard Varese's Ionisation (1931) and Cage's First Construction (in Metal) (1939) to Morton Feldman's The King of Denmark (1964), Steve Reich's Drumming (1971), Bone Alphabet by Brian Ferneyhough (1991), and Corporel (1985), a piece by Vinko Globokar for percussionist performing on his or her amplified body."--Jacket.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.
Table of contents: title: Because the world is round; title: Loud Americans : American percussion music under construction; title: Learning Bone alphabet; title: The affliction of memory; title: Face the music : a look at percussion playing; title: This is not a drum : manipulating the material of percussion music; title: Same bed, different dreams : a personal epilogue.