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Former User Page edit
I was having a drink with composer Larry Polansky one night. He was talking about the musicological and restorative work he was doing on music by Johanna Beyer and Harry Partch, I spoke of my analytical writings on the music of Conlon Nancarrow and Mikel Rouse. Finally, Larry said, "Composers are now doing the work that musicologists used to do, while the musicologists are all off doing gender studies."
So that's why I'm here - a composer seduced into musicology - because somebody had to to it, and it pays better than being a composer.
Read about me at Kyle Gann (which I didn't start, but I amplified a little) and even more here.
Old-Fashioned Paper Publications edit
By the way, my books so far are:
- The Music of Conlon Nancarrow, Cambridge University Press ISBN 0521465346
- American Music in the 20th Century, Schirmer ISBN 002864655X
- Music Downtown: Writings from the Village Voice, University of California Press ISBN 0-520-22982-7
I wrote the Grove Dictionary articles on the following composers:
- Robert Ashley
- Eve Beglarian
- Henry Brant
- Wendy Mae Chambers
- Nic Collins
- Michael Gordon
- Guy Klucevsek
- David Lang
- Meredith Monk
- Conlon Nancarrow
- Ben Neill
- Mikel Rouse
- David Soldier
- Bernadette Speach
- Lois V Vierk
- Julia Wolfe
- Evan Ziporyn
Plus the article on La Monte Young's The Well-Tuned Piano for Perspectives of New Music, the article on "American Music Since 1980" for Musik in Geschichte und Gegenwart, and others. I wrote for the Village Voice from December 1986 to December 2005. Most writings listed here.