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Author:

Lang, David (David A.), composer.

Title:

Composition as explanation / David Lang ; text by Gertrude Stein.

Edition:

Full score.

Translated Title:

041613406
9790041613406

Publisher:

Red Poppy Music :

Copyright Date:

2021

Description:

1 score (xi, 210 pages) ; 28 cm

Subject:

Stein, Gertrude,--1874-1946--Musical settings.
Stein, Gertrude,--1874-1946.
Monologues with music (Instrumental ensemble)--Scores.
Sextets (Piano, clarinet, flute, percussion, violin, cello)--Scores.
Creative writing--Songs and music.
Creative writing.
Monologues with music (Instrumental ensemble)--Scores.
Sextets (Piano, clarinet, flute, percussion, violin, cello)--Scores.
Art music.
Monologues (Music)
Musical settings.
Scores.
Songs and music.
Monologues (Music)
Musical settings.
Chamber music.
Scores.

Other Authors:

Stein, Gertrude, 1874-1946, author.

Other Titles:

Works. Selections

Notes:

For flute/piccolo, clarinet/bass clarinet, piano, percussion, violin, and cello. All instrumentalists double as speakers and vocalists and perform some actions. Program and performance notes in English. This theatrical work features extensive text by Gertrude Stein taken from her lecture given in 1924 entitled Composition as explanation. Commissioned for Eighth Blackbird by The Arts Club of Chicago. Duration: approximately 60 min.

Contents:

there is singularly nothing -- those who are creating -- of course it is beautiful -- beginning again and again -- it is understood by this time (percussion solo) -- and now to begin as if to begin -- and after that what changes -- intertext (instrumental) -- the problem from this time on -- this ten -- the time in the composition.

OCLC:

(OCoLC)1288161175

Locations:

OVUX522 -- University of Iowa Libraries (Iowa City)