20th-century participatory art music
January 2019
Repertoire
Books
Articles
- Riley, In C (1964), Olson III (1966)
- Rzewski, Les Moutons de Panurge (1968)
- Musica Elettronica Viva, The Sound Pool (1968)
- Scratch Orchestra 1969-1974)
- Portsmouth Sinfonia (1970-1979)
- Reich, Drumming (1971) and Clapping Music (1972)
- Oliveros, Sonic Meditations (1974)
- Rosenfeld, Sheer Frost Orchestra (1993), Teenage Lontano (2008)
- Curran, Boletus Edulis – Musica Pendolare (2008)
Books
- Cardew, Cornelius. (1972) 1974 . Scratch Music. Cambridge: MIT Press.
- Carl, Robert. 2009. Terry Riley’s In C. Oxford University Press.
- Nickelson, Patrick. 2017. “The Names of Minimalism: Authorship and the Historiography of Dispute in New York Minimalism, 1960-1962.” Doctor of Philosophy, Music, Toronto: University of Toronto.
- Oliveros, Pauline. 2005. Deep Listening: A Composer’s Sound Practice. IUniverse.
- ———. 1984. Software for People: Collected Writings 1963-80. Smith Publications.
- Pisaro, Kathryn Gleasman. 2001. “Music From Scratch: Cornelius Cardew, Experimental Music and the Scratch Orchestra in Britain in the 1960s and 1970s.” Illinois: Northwestern University.
- Potter, Keith. 2000. Four Musical Minimalists: La Monte Young, Terry Riley, Steve Reich, Philip Glass. Cambridge, UK: Cambridge University Press.
- Tortora, Daniela., Alvin S. Curran, David W. Bernstein, and Eleonora. Ludovici, eds. 2010. Alvin Curran: Live in Roma. [Milano]: Die Schachtel.
- Turino, Thomas. 2008. Music as Social Life: The Politics of Participation. University of Chicago Press.
Articles
- Anderson, Virginia. “Chinese Characters and Experimental Structure in Cardew’s The Great Learning.” Jems: Journal of Experimental Music Studies, 7 March 2014: 1-13.
- Beal, Amy C. 2009. “‘Music Is a Universal Human Right’: Musica Elettronica Viva.” In Sound Commitments: Avant-Garde Music and the Sixties, edited by Robert Adlington, 99–120. Oxford University Press.
- Bernstein, David W. 2010. “‘Listening to the Sounds of the People’: Frederic Rzewski and Musica Elettronica Viva (1966–1972).” Contemporary Music Review29 (6): 535–550.
- Chapter on Scratch from Court, Benjamin. 2017. The Politics of Musical Amateurism, 1968-1981. Doctor of Philosophy, Muisicology. Los Angeles: University of California Los Angeles.
- Curran, Alvin. 2006. “On Spontaneous Music.” Contemporary Music Review25 (5–6): 483–90.
- Duckworth, William. 1995. Talking Music: Conversations with John Cage, Philip Glass, Laurie Anderson and Five Generations of American Experimental Composers. New York: Schirmer Books.
- Gopinath, Sumanth. n.d. “Steve Reich and Discourse on Non-Western Music.” Glendora Review: African Quarterly on the Arts 3 (3&4): 134–45.
- Gunden, Heidi Von. 1983. The Music of Pauline Oliveros. Scarecrow Press.
- Keil, Charles. 1987. “Participatory Discrepancies and the Power of Music.” Cultural Anthropology2 (3): 275–83.
- ———. 1995. “The Theory of Participatory Discrepancies: A Progress Report.” Ethnomusicology39 (1): 1–19.
- Kim-Cohen, Seth. 2009. In the Blink of an Ear: Toward a Non-Cochlear Sonic Art. New York: Continuum Books. [Section on Sheer Frost Orchestra]
- Lange, Barbara Rose. 2008. “The Politics of Collaborative Performance in the Music of Pauline Oliveros.” Perspectives of New Music46 (1): 39–60.
- Miles, Stephen Tipton. 2008. “Objectivity and Intersubjectivity in Pauline Oliveros’s" Sonic Meditations".” Perspectives of New Music, 4–38.
- Mockus, Martha. 2011. Sounding Out: Pauline Oliveros and Lesbian Musicality. Routledge.
- O’Brien, Kerry. 2014. “Hearing Disorientation in Steve Reich’s Drumming (1971).” Mitteilungen Der Paul Sacher Stiftung27: 36–40.
- Oliveros, Pauline. 2007. “My ‘American Music’: Soundscape, Politics, Technology, Community.” American Music25 (4): 389–404.
- Piekut, Benjamin. 2014. “There Must Be Some Relation Between Mushrooms and Trains.” In The Oxford Handbook of Mobile Music Studies, Volume 2, edited by Sumanth Gopinath and Jason Stanyek. Oxford University Press.
- Selections from Reich, Steve. 2002. Writings on Music, 1965-2000. Oxford University Press.
- Rzewski, Frederic, and Monique Verken. 1969. “Musica Elettronica Viva.” The Drama Review: TDR, 92–97.
- Sun, Cecilia. 2016. “Brian Eno, Non-Musicianship and the Experimental Tradition.” In Brian Eno: Oblique Music, edited by Sean Albiez and David Pattie, 29–48. London: Bloomsbury.
- Tilbury, John. 2008. Cornelius Cardew (1936-1981): A Life Unfinished. Copula Books. Chapters 8-12.
- Turino, Thomas. 2009. “Four Fields of Music Making and Sustainable Living.” The World of Music51 (1,): 95–117.