NONSEQUITURS
Writings and Lectures on Improvisation, Composition, and Interpretation 1965–1994
Contents
Preface
- Seeing Things in Unusual and New Ways
by Dieter Schnebel
- Composing, Performing, Improvising
by/von Gisela Gronemeyer and/und Reinhard Oehlschlägel
Music, What for?
- Nonsequiturs. A Lecture with Music
- On Ambivalence. The Effects of Music on Society
- Complexity. About Our Job as Artists
- The Song of the Sphinx. On Modernism
Improvisation and Composition
- Little Bangs. Towards a Nihilist Theory of Improvisation
- Inner Voices. In Search of a More Sponataneous Form of Writing
- The Mystery of Writing. The Zeitgeist Ensemble and the Solitary Composer
- Interpreting the Moment. On Improvisation and the Art of Forgetting
- “Write the Book.” For Heinz-Klaus Metzger
- A Fresh New Wind. Improvisation and Composition in 1988
- The Mechanics of a Love Relationship. Imitation Love
- Inspiring the Love of the Art. Teaching Composition Tomorrow
- Melody as Face. On the Interpretation of Perceived Phenomena
- Second Structure. For Petr Kotík and Other Friends
- Creating out of Nothing. Parma Manifesto
Oral History
- “I am in the habit of trying to relate my work to the world around me”
Conversation with Vivian Perlis
Music and Politics
- Music and Political Ideals. Lecture at the University of Wisconsin
- The Composer and the Tradition of Art Music
- Today’s Art and Today’s Society. Lecture at Cleveland State University
- A Variety of Dialects. Some Political Currents in Modern Music
- “We are the pupils of the working class.” Hanns Eisler Today
- Some Recent Examples of Political Music in America
- Private or Collective? The Foundations of a Future World Revolutionary Music
Musica Elettronica Viva (MEV)
- Calculated Risk
- Collective Music
- MEV. Reflections on Its Tenth Anniversary
- A Short History of MEV
- The Secret of the Labyrinth. Pages and Fragments
- Work Songs
- Spacecraft
- Zuppa
- Addendum: A Recipe by Alvin Curran
- Sound Pool
- On the Road. Letters 1967–1968
Early Compositions
- Provisory Confession. Remarks on My Recent Music
- Zoologischer Garten
- A Photoresistor Mixer for Live Performance
Dictionary Articles
- Intellect and Intuition. Non-metrical Rhythm Since 1950
- Signals fom the Past and the Future. On Performance
- Experimental Forms of Musical Notation. Prose Music
About Others
- Cornelius Cardew
- Giacinto Scelsi
- Olivier Messiaen
- John Cage
- Henri Pousseur
- David Tudor
- Christian Wolff
- Steve Lac
Program Notes
- Speculum Dianae
- Les Moutons de Panurge
- Last Judgment
- Jefferson
- Falling Music
- Coming Together
- Attica
- Struggle
- The People United Will Never Be Defeated!
- Thirteen Instrumental Studies
- Four Pieces
- Song and Dance
- Squares
- Moonrise with Memories
- Three Pieces for Saxophone, Trombone, and Piano
- The Housewife’s Lament
- It Makes a Long Time Man Feel Bad
- North American Ballads
- A Long Time Man
- The Price of Oil
- Le Silence des espaces infinis
- Aria
- Antigone-Legend
- Satyrica
- Una breve storia d’estate
- A Machine
- Mayakovsky
- Mary’s Dream
- Wails
- Lost and Found
- To the Earth
- Force
- Nostalgia
- Eggs
- Chains
- Imitation Love
- The Triumph of Death
- The Turtle and the Crane
- Mayn Yingele
- Fantasia
- Roses
- Aerial Tarts
- Whangdoodles
- Bumps
- Ludes
- Sonata
- Andante con moto
- De Profundis
- Knight
- A Life
- The Burghers of Rostock
- Holes
- Crusoe
- Whimswhams
- Snippets
- Night Crossing with Fisherman
- Fougues
- Scratch Symphony
- The Days Fly By
- Trio
- Main Drag
- Pocket Symphony
- Honk
- Stop the War!
- The Road
- The Babble
- Johnny Has Gone for a Soldier
- Cadenza
- Dust
- Bring Them Home!
- Spells
- Spoils
- Second Hand, or Finally Alone
- Fortune
- Snaps
- Nanosonatas
List of Works
Index/Register
Edition MusikTexte, Koln
http://www.musiktexte.de
First Edition with index
Köln 2007,
English-German edition, 576 pages.
Preface by Dieter Schnebel.
LM BK008
ISBN 3-9803151-8-5
$50.00
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