[NewMusic] Essential texts?

[Phillip Greenlief]

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On Behalf Of Matthew Goodheart
Subject: Re: [NewMusic] Essential texts?

Lot of good writings mentioned; although I guess it depends on what you 
mean by "this" music. I'd also put out there:

Theory:
Meta Hodos and Meta Meta Hodos - James Tenney

Also important for me in a roundabout way:
The Social and Religious Designs of Bach's Brandenburg Concerti - 
Michael Marissen
       What the hell, you ask? Well, the deep analysis of the scoring, 
melodic and harmonic content, and structure shows how deeply embedded 
these things are in the culture that produced them, and gives us a 
small indication of the meaning that these works MAY have had to the 
folks that heard and produced them. It's not a very far step to look at 
music today in the same way. . .

And of course:
I Hate the Man who Runs This Bar - Eugene Chadbourne

PG:
Matthew,

I've read part of that book on Bach, and yeah - totally "appropriate" to
this discussion. That's (part of) the problem: if you see "other" music
as something you don't need to check out just because it doesn't sound
like your music - you're missing the point. As far as I'm concerned,
there is no "this" music - only music.

Can I borrow that Tenney text sometime? I just ordered another of his
titles and that shit is expensive...

Peace,
Phillip