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Publisher Summary The salient feature of American music tradition is its unique and characteristic way of thinking about the activity of making music. The music is seen not primarily as implementing a vision of the composer or the will of the composer—something the composer hears in his head. Rather it is about setting up situations that allow the appearance of sonic entities that are more like natural phenomena than traditional music. The practitioners of this type of music build machines, or things akin to machines or simulations, things that have a behavior of some kind that is unanticipated by the composer. This is an unusual way to think about music, and there is still a very healthy, living alternate way to think about music, the more traditional view of what the composer does, of somehow pulling the music out of his head. Beethoven provides the preeminent archetype of this conception: the lone genius—deaf, yet—whose mind is full of completely realized symphonies, and who struggles to write fast enough to capture them. |
