The Music of Conlon Nancarrow(Music in the Twentieth Century) by Arnold Whittall, Kyle Gann

The Music of Conlon Nancarrow(Music in the Twentieth Century)

Arnold Whittall, Kyle Gann

316 pages first pub 1996 (editions)

nonfiction music informative fast-paced

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Conlon Nancarrow has written the most rhythmically complex music the world has ever known, so complex that it can only be realized on a mechanical player piano. Yet Nancarrow's whirlwinds of notes, sometimes as many as eighty per second, are jazzy...

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