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Beyond Notation: The Music of Earle Brown
Rebecca Y. Kim, EditorEarle Brown (1926–2002) was a crucial part of a group of experimental composers known as the New York School, and his music intersects in fascinating ways with that of his colleagues John Cage, Morton Feldman, and Christian Wolff. This book seeks to expand our view of Brown's work by exploring his practices as a composer and draughtsman through a selection of works composed in the United States and Europe, which included a seminal collaboration with sculptor Alexander Calder. These essays detail Brown's compositional methods in historical context: not only his influential experiments with open form composition and graphic notation, but his interest in performance, mixed media, jazz, the Schillinger system, and his engagement with the European avant-garde. The volume also includes never before published essays by Brown that shed new light on his relationships with colleagues and the ideas that shaped his work, in addition to several color photographs of Brown's paintings.
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Cover
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Title Page
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Copyright Page
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Contents
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Acknowledgments
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Foreword
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Preface
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One. An Overview of Earle Brown’s Techniques and Media
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Two. The Early Years
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Three. Earle Brown’s Study and Use of the Schillinger System of Musical Composition
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Four. Energy Fields
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Five. Four Musicians at Work and Earle Brown’s Indices
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Six. Their Man in Europe, Our Man in America
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Seven. Collage and the Feedback Condition of Earle Brown’s Calder Piece
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Eight. Imagining an Ever-Changing Entity
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Nine. Then and Now
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Ten. “Let’s Hear Some Sounds”
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Eleven. Farewell to the Closed Form
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Select Texts by Earle Brown
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Why I Am a 12-Tone Composer (ca. 1951)
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Letter to Ray Grismer (April 4, 1957)
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Varèse (1961)
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Letter to Leonard Bernstein (July 9, 1963)
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Remarks Delivered to the National Music Council, New York City (1966)
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An “Open Letter” to Some Critics and Friends (October 15, 1973)
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Earle Brown, Composer (ca. 1976)
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Work List
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Notes
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Bibliography
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Contributors
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Index
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Plates
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Published: 2017
Publisher: University of Michigan Press
- 978-0-472-13058-0 (hardcover)
- 978-0-472-12332-2 (ebook)