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George Crumb and the Alchemy of Sound: Essays on His Music.

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Publication Date: 01-SEP-07 		Format: Online
Delivery: Immediate Online Access
Full Article Title: George Crumb and the Alchemy of Sound: Essays on His Music.(Book review)

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George Crumb and the Alchemy of Sound: Essays on His Music. Edited by Steven Bruns and Ofer Ben-Amots. Colorado Springs, CO: Colorado College Music Press, 2005. [vii, 360 p. ISBN-13 978-093595-207-7. $36.] Illustrations, facsimiles, music examples.

This new collection of thirteen essays and an introduction honors George Crumb on his seventy-fifth birthday. This publication is a major contribution to research on Crumb and follows a previous collection of essays (Don Gillespie, George Crumb: Profile of a Composer [New York: C. F. Peters, 1986]), and a bio-bibliography (David Cohen, George Crumb: A Bio-bibliography [Westport, CT: Greenwood Press, 2002]). Still lacking is a single analytical monograph on the composer. The present volume comprises writings that range from personal...

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