📗 Libro en inglés ON MUSIC (INCLUDES THE LAST INTERVIEW WITH PAUL BOWLES)

UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA PRESS - 9780520236554

Música Teoría de la música

Sinopsis de ON MUSIC (INCLUDES THE LAST INTERVIEW WITH PAUL BOWLES)

"In this wonderfully engaging and informative collection we hear the voice of a different Paul Bowles. Writing on a wide range of subjects--jazz, film music, classical music, popular music, ethnic music--he is direct, opinionated, incisive, analytical, humorous, and passionate."--Millicent Dillon, author of "You Are Not I: A Portrait of Paul Bowles "It''s an easy enough job if one has something to say," Paul Bowles remarked in a letter to his mother about his first foray into music criticism. And Paul Bowles, indeed, had plenty to say about music. Though known chiefly as a writer of novels and stories, Paul Bowles (1910-99) thought of himself first and foremost as a composer. Drawing together the work he did at the intersection of his two passions and professions, writing and music, this volume collects the music criticism Bowles published between 1935 and 1946 as well as an interview conducted by Irene Herrmann shortly before his death. An intimate of Aaron Copland and protege of Virgil Thomson, Bowles was a musical sophisticate acquainted with an enormous range of music. His criticism collected here brilliantly illuminates not only the whole range of modernist composition but also film music, jazz, Mexican and Moroccan music, and many other genres. As a reviewer he reports on established artists and young hopefuls, symphonic concerts indoors and out, and important premieres of works by Copland, Thomson, Cage, Shostakovich, and Stravinsky, among others. Written with the austere grace of his better-known literary works, Bowles''s criticism enhances our picture of an important era in American music history as well as our sense of his accomplishments and extraordinary contribution to twentieth-century culture.

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Editorial: University of California Press

ISBN: 9780520236554

Idioma: Inglés

Número de páginas: 292

Encuadernación: Tapa dura

Año de edición: 2003

Plaza de edición: Berkeley

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Escrito por Paul Bowles


Paul Bowles
(Nueva York , 1910 - Tánger,1999)  Su primera novela, El cielo protector (1949; Seix Barral, 2006), se convirtió en un éxito de ventas y fue llevada al cine en 1991 por el director italiano Bernardo Bertolucci. A ésta le siguieron las novelas Déjala que caiga (1952), Muy lejos de casa (Seix Barral, 1992) y Por encima del mundo (Seix Barral, 2007), que le aseguraron un primerísimo lugar en la narrativa norteamericana contemporánea. Con la experiencia de sus viajes por África, Asia y América, escribió el libro Cabezas verdes, manos azules (1963). Es autor también de varios volúmenes de relatos, entre los que destacan Delicada presa (1950) o El tiempo de la amistad (1967), y del texto El jefe T. A. Odutola: el Ogbeni Oja de Ijebu-Ode (Seix Barral, 2004), publicado póstumamente, además de libros de poemas y traducciones de cuentos orales africanos. Su diario y una selección de textos acerca de sus experiencias viajeras se reunieron en Días y viajes (Seix Barral, 1993).
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