Roger Smalley : A Case Study Of Late Twentieth-Century Composition.

Smalley was born in England in 1943, and emigrated to Australia. He has engaged with a variety of musical practices, from serialism and aleatorism to electronics and Aboriginal sounds. The author uses Smalley's work to ask larger questions of how to tell the history of late 20th century music composition in a fractured age. With a preface, bibliography and index. Three appendices. Music examples. Figures.

xvi, 272 p.; 24 cm.
Cloth
Language: English
ISBN: 1409424111
ISBN13: 9781409424116
UPC: 9781409424116