Gavin Bryars
- Editor: East, Leslie
- Editor: Wordsworth, David
Essential reading for understanding – and playing – Bryars’s music.
Gavin Bryars
- Editor: East, Leslie
- Editor: Wordsworth, David
Purchase product
Essential reading for understanding – and playing – Bryars’s music.
About
Arguably the most important British post-minimalist composer, Gavin Bryars has worked in classical music, jazz, free improvisation, minimalism, historicism, avant-garde, and experimental music. This new book brings together musicians and academics who have worked with Bryars, each discussing one particular aspect of his work.
Contents
- Foreword by Steve Reich Preface by David Wordsworth Prologue – an interview with Gavin Bryars
- 1. Vocal Music – John Potter
- 2. Choral Music – David Wordsworth
- 3. Opera – David Wordsworth
- 4. Jazz and Improvisation – Brian Morton
- 5. Experimental Music – Virginia Anderson
- 6. Dance – Roger Heaton
- 7. Titanic and Jesus’ Blood – Brian Morton
- 8. Orchestral Music – Martin Cotton
- 9. Notes from a Collaborator – Blake Morrison
- 10. The Adnan Songbook – Anna Maria Friman
- 11. The Flower of Friendship – The Gavin Bryars Ensemble – Audrey Riley
- 12. Bryars and Art School – Simon Strange
- 13. After Handel’s ‘Vesper’ and the Harpsichord’s Dual Life – Mahan Esfahani
- 14. Tributes – Howard Skempton and Bryn Harrison Epilogue: Career and Evolution – Gavin Bryars Appendices Bryars’ Desert Island Discs Catalogue of Works Arrangements by others Discography Contributors Index of Names Acknowledgements
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Essential reading for understanding – and playing – Bryars’s music.
