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Colin McPhee

Carol J. Oja
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A House in Bali
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American composers and Balinese music
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Balinese and Western music
Balinese ceremonial music
Balinese gamelan
Balinese music
Carlos Chavez
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Colin McPhee
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Colin McPhee and Jane Belo
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Colin McPhee Tabuh-Tabuhan
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music in 1920s New York
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Oliver Daniel
Sidney Cowell
Virgil Thomson

Product details

  • ISBN 9780252071805
  • Weight: 626g
  • Dimensions: 152 x 229mm
  • Publication Date: 26 Feb 2004
  • Publisher: University of Illinois Press
  • Publication City/Country: US
  • Product Form: Paperback
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Colin McPhee was a performer, writer, and pioneer among Western composers in turning to Asia for inspiration. A close friend of Aaron Copland, Carlos Chavez, Henry Cowell, and Virgil Thomson, he played a vital role in new music activities in New York in the 1920s. But his most important accomplishments emerged from his devotion to the music of Bali.

After hearing rare recordings of the Balinese gamelan--a percussion orchestra with delicately layered textures and clangorous sounds--McPhee traveled to Bali to learn more. There, he worked closely with Western anthropologists like Margaret Mead and Gregory Bateson. McPhee became a devoted and meticulous chronicler of Balinese musical culture in classic texts like Music of Bali while integrating Balinese and Western music into an imaginative hybrid that anticipated work by John Cage, Lou Harrison, and Steve Reich.

A fascinating portrait of an unconventional artist-scholar, Colin McPhee evocatively looks at key issues in composition and ethnomusicology while describing the profound experience of a composer striving to comprehend a new musical language.
About Carol J. Oja
Carol J. Oja is the William Powell Mason Professor of Music at Harvard University. Her books include Bernstein Meets Broadway: Collaborative Art in a Time of War and Making Music Modern: New York in the 1920s

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