Research Catalog

Title

Time and Anthony Braxton / Stuart Broomer.

Author

Broomer, Stuart.

Publication

Toronto : Mercury Press, c2009.

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Description

176 p. : ill., ports.; 22 cm.

Summary

• Anthony Braxton may be the greatest creative force in contemporary music and one of the most controversial. In a 40-year career, he has reinterpreted most of the jazz repertoire while composing at the pace of Bach or Mozart. A musical futurist projecting multiple orchestras playing on different planets, Braxton has played duets with bop pioneer Max Roach, conducted his own opra and composed for 100 tubas.
• In time and Authony Braxton, Stuart Broomer looks insistently at time, whether in the shape of jazz history, time's relationship to pitch, or the unique ways in which Braxton constructs the musical moment. In approaching the dense weave of Braxton's musical thought, Broomer touches on Nicola Tesla, St. Augustine of Hippo, Ezra Pound and Frankie Lymon and the Teenageres.

Subject

• Braxton, Anthony
• Jazz musicians > United States > Biography

Genre/Form

• collective biographies.
• Biographies
• Biographies.

Bibliography (note)

• Includes bibliographical references (p. 161-163) and index.
• Discography: p. 155-160.

Processing Action (note)

• committed to retain

Contents

Groundings and Airings -- Chicago -- Velocity: A Principle -- Time of Arrival: Begin with Eschatology -- Two Solo Musics -- Personal Time: The Solo Saxophone Music -- Giant Stepping: The Invention of the Audience -- Sincerity: The Principle of the Alto Saxophone -- Speculation: The Piano Music -- Stuttersong -- Parades and Pitches -- The Cardigan and the March -- The Parade and the Time-Space Continua -- Begin Anywhere: Second Line Ratoon -- Pitch Into Time: Notes on Anthony Braxton's Lower Register -- To Disappear in Time: Composition no. 94 (For Time to Disappear) -- Life Writing: The Quartet and Composition as Autobiography -- Space: A Qualitative Caveat -- Nostalgia is Time Squared -- The Combinatory Principle: Multiple Pieces and Multiple Condutors -- Deconstructing Conducting, or Embracing the Semi-Conductor: Compositions no. 96 and no. 169 -- The Ghost Trance Musics -- The Hour-glass on Stage -- A Technique for Surprise: The Diamond Clef -- The Ghost Trance Interview -- The Repeat Sign -- Bagpipes and Beat Patterns: Circularity and Origin in Composition no. 247 -- The Extensible Combinatory -- Constructing Now -- A Technique for Surprise: SuperCollider and the Diamond Curtain Wall Music -- The Time of Listening -- The Braxtoniam Multiverse: Toward the Sonic Genome.

ISBN

• 9781551281445
• 1551281449

OCLC

453820110

Owning Institutions

Harvard Library