Have Pig Want
Gun #3
Frog Peak Newsletter
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Have Pig Want Gun is an occasional newsletter from Frog Peak Music
(a composers' collective), with announcements of new items from
Frog Peak and writings by Frog Peak artists. Please send us an email
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CONTENTS
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PEAK
PICKS
-- New Music by James Tenney
-- New CD from the
American Gamelan Institute
--
Spotlights
FROG
SPEAK
RUNNING WITH THE PITCH: How to books
by David Mahler
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TENNEY SCORES
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These are some of
the new scores by fp member James Tenney. For a complete listing
, see the Tenney artist page at http://www.frogpeak.org
To Weave (a
meditation). For piano. Ten39. $15.
Seegersong
#1. For solo clarinet or bass clarinet. Ten40. $15.
Seegersong
#2. For solo flute or alto flute. Ten41. $15.
Last Spring in
Toronto. For small orchestra and gamelan. Ten42. $25.
Harmonium
#7. For any 12 or more sustaining instruments. Ten44.
$25.
Spectrum 1.
For seven instruments. Ten45. $15.
Spectrum 8.
For viola and six instruments. Ten51. $15.
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NEW CD FROM THE AMERICAN GAMELAN INSTITUTE
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Rahayu
Supanggah: Homage to Tradition CD.AGI01. $20.
Indonesian Composer
Series #1
Supanggah is
recognized as a pioneer and major activist in the development of
Indonesian experimental music. These pieces, composed between 1979 and
2001, are new music grounded in traditional resources. The
Indonesian Composer Series, curated by Jody Diamond, is only available
here!
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SPOTLIGHTS
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BOOK
Elaine Barkin.
_e: an anthology_
Subtitled
"music texts and graphics from 1975-1995, this perfect bound
volume presents reviews, poems, scores and other musical musings from
a activist composer and thinker, including articles from _Perspectives
in New Music_. With an endpaper by Benjamin Boretz. $10.
CD
Blow, by Anne La
Berge.
This adventurous
composer/performer, based in Amsterdam, takes her instrument where no
flute has gone before. Percussionists, beware! $15.
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RUNNING WITH THE
PITCH: How to Books
by David Mahler
"Writing a poem is easy, like swimming into a fish trap.
Analyzing a poem is hard, like swimming out of a fish trap."
--- from _You Must Revise Your Life_, by William Stafford
"I welcome anything that comes along. I don't have any standards.
. . . I am not trying to contend for a place in magazines or in books.
I'm just letting my attention flow where it wants to
flow."
--- from _Crossing
Unmarked Snow_, by William Stafford
"How-to
booksÜ: the field of writing is covered with them. Poet William
Stafford's two books quoted above stand alongside his _Writing the
Australian Crawl_, and rub shoulders with Brenda Ueland's
_If You Want to Write_, Annie Dillard's _The Writing Life_, Richard
Hugo's _The Triggering Town_, and the recently published Theodore
Roethke book, _On Poetry & Craft_. Shelves of similar treatises
share the working ideas of other poets, novelists,
essayists.
Music books about
the "how to" of composition are few. More than enough titles
exist about the language of music Ü its vocabulary, grammar,
spelling, and analysis ("swimming out of the fish trap").
There are likely reasons for the paucity of helpful books about
composition:
-- the language we use is so specialized. (Writers at least have
common alphabets & words, used and understood by writers and
readers alike.)
-- so much about composing is intuitive.
-- we all have our compositional "secrets" and our
proprietary nature takes over.
-- it's so time
consuming to compose music; there's no time left over to talk or write
about it.
Most books on music
-- covering harmony, counterpoint, theory, analysis, notation -- are
about naming the parts of a sonic flying machine. Fortunately there
are a few books -- Lou Harrison's _Music Primer_, Pauline
Oliveros' _Software for People_, Morton Feldman's _Essays_, Steve
Reich's _Writings About Music_, and Alvin Lucier's _Chambers_.
that actually help music get off the ground and soar.
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