The Music of Conlon Nancarrow

by Kyle Gann

Book Overview

Conlon Nancarrow has written the most rhythmically complex music the world has ever known, so complex that it can only be realized on a mechanical player piano. Yet Nancarrow's whirlwinds of notes, sometimes as many as eighty per second, are jazzy and infectiously joyous. The music he composed in almost complete isolation from 1940 on has only recently achieved international fame, and this is the first book to cover in detail Nancarrow's life and...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0521028078
• ISBN13: 9780521028073
• Release Date: August 2008
• Publisher: Cambridge University Press
• Length: 316 Pages
• Weight: 1.10 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.8" x 6.6" x 9.5"