Music of Anthony Braxton

Mike Heffley (Autor)

Buch | Hardcover

500 Seiten

2016
Routledge (Verlag)
978-1-138-15202-1 (ISBN)

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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.

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

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

Erscheinungsdatum	11.09.2016
Verlagsort	London
Sprache	englisch
Maße	156 x 234 mm
Gewicht	453 g
Themenwelt	Kunst / Musik / Theater ► Musik ► Instrumentenkunde
Themenwelt	Kunst / Musik / Theater ► Musik ► Musiktheorie / Musiklehre
ISBN-10	1-138-15202-1 / 1138152021
ISBN-13	978-1-138-15202-1 / 9781138152021
Zustand	Neuware