The Music of Michael Nyman: Texts, Contexts and Intertexts

by Pwyll ap Siôn

Book Overview

Nyman's rise to international prominence during the last three decades has made him one of the world's most successful living composers. His music has nevertheless been criticized for its parasitic borrowing of other composers' ideas and for its relentless self-borrowing. In this first book-length study in English, Pwyll ap Si n places Nyman's writings within the general context of Anglo-American experimentalism, minimalism and post-minimalism, and...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1138267457
• ISBN13: 9781138267459
• Release Date: November 2016
• Publisher: Routledge
• Length: 256 Pages
• Weight: 0.80 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.5" x 6.1" x 9.2"