LISTENING TO MUSIC AN EXPERIMENTAL APPROACH TEN SESSIONS GIVEN BY JOHN HERBERT MCDOWELL. 1964.
£120.00
N.p. (California?): s.p. (Mcdowell), 1964
11.6 x 11.7cm, 1pp letterpress promotional leaflet for a course of one to one one-hour seminars with the writer, composer and theorist McDowell to learn how to listen to experimental music (live and electronic).
According to the Library of Congress McDowell “became heavily involved in experimental music in New York City during the 1960s and 1970s, and was a major member of artistic groups at Judson Memorial Church. He proudly claimed that he had composed more music for dance than any other composer (though that claim is unsubstantiated), and taught both music and choreography at The New School for Social Research and the Gulbenkian Foundation’s National Choreographic Summer School. McDowell’s music was eclectic, encompassing a large range of styles and genres: sacred and secular, concert and theatrical, chamber music, orchestral music, and film music. An early proponent of tape music, he was also one of the first modern composers to incorporate the harpsichord in his works, as seen in the Suite for Harpsichord (1955), Modulamen (1961), and Darkened Psalters: Dramatic Ballet in Three Scenes based on The Scarlet Letter (undated).”
VG+ in a plastic envelope which may or may not be vintage. Rare.
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