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ISBN: 9780195059212 - Musings: The Musical Worlds of Gunther Schuller
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Musings: The Musical Worlds of Gunther Schuller

The Musical Worlds of Gunther Schuller - A Collection of His Writings

Schuller, Gunther

ISBN: 9780195059212
Format: Paperback
Publisher:Oxford University Press
Edition: New ed


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Winner of the 1988 Sonneck Society's Irving Lowens Award for distinguished contributions to scholarship in American music, the author brings together his writings on music and discusses the composition and performance of contemporary music, musical education and musical aesthetics.

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Composer, conductor, educator, jazz critic, and horn virtuoso, Gunther Schuller here brings together his writings on music. There are numerous articles about jazz, dealing with his favourite figures like Duke Ellington and Ornette Coleman, and also Schuller's concept of the 'Third Stream', the area where jazz and concert music intersect. Other sections deal with the composition and performance of contemporary music, musical education, and musical aesthetics.
 
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