Thinking Sound Music: The Life and Works of Robert Erickson

by Charles Shere

Robert Erickson's music bristles with the quintessential virtues of modernist American composers: intelligence, good humor, lyricism, rich sonorities, inventive sound-colors. It is firmly rooted in a thorough understanding of all musics now available, from ancient Greece to John Cage, yet it speaks with a characteristically American voice, direct and good-natured, attuned to the vernacular, never condescending to its audiences.

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0914913425
• ISBN13: 9780914913429
• Release Date: January 1995
• Publisher: Scarecrow Press
• Length: 278 Pages