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70 Works Indispensable to the Existence of Modern Avant-garde and Experimental Music From The Future of Modern Music by James McHard: The works herein are the historically crucial works of musical modernism. No quality valuation other than importance is implied. Most of these works, however, are of high quality; many other high quality wo  |  watermilk		Avant Garde Project series of recordings of 20th-century classical-experimental-electroacoustic music digitized from LPs whose music has in most cases never been released on CD  |  watermilk
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Articles: Avant-garde Music Composition

• Thoughts On Music & the Avant-garde  |  Considerations of a term and its public use  -  By Chris Cutler  |
• James Joyce and Avant-Garde Music  |  Contemporary Music Center of Ireland  |
• Use Of Synthesizers And Anti-Music  |  Hyperreal  |
• Pop Avant-Garde: |  A Critical Inquiry into the Various Performances of Sonic Youth  |  Christopher Robe  |
• Historical Assumptions of the Avant-Garde and Experimental Movements: The Participants and Their Historians  |  Virginia Anderson  |
• Stockhausen Serves Imperialism and Other Articles (1974)   |
• Rolf Wallin:  -  Fractal Music - Red Herring or Promised Land?  |  or "Just Another of those Boring Papers on Chaos"  |
• Rolf Wallin:  -  Avant-garde, Ghosts, and Innocence  |
• Featured Subject: Aaron Copland  |  With News and Reviews From the Archives of The New York Times  |
• Biographies and Links for some CUBE Season Composers  |
• Adieu to the Avant-Garde  |  As the artistic regime shifts, realism, rhyme, and representation make a comback. |  Kanchan Limaye |  Reason Online  |
• Third Piano Sonata  - Répons  -  Pierre Boulez (b. 1925)  |
• introduction PhD. research Hannah Bosma
• Wayne Horvitz Gravitas Quartet  -  Way Out East  |  Review  |  Classical goes Jazz  |
• Anachronism, responsibility and historical intension  -  Allan F. Moore |  Critical Musicology Journal  |

 
 
 

Book List:  Avant-garde Composition:  01

• New Directions in Music by David Cope
• Music of the Twentieth-Century Avant-Garde: A Biocritical Sourcebook
• Harmonies of Heaven and Earth: Mysticism in Music from Antiquity to the Avant-Garde by Joscelyn Godwin
• New Music, New Allies: American Experimental Music in West Germany from the Zero Hour to Reunification (California Studies in Twentieth-Century Music) by Amy C. Beal
• Rationalizing Culture: IRCAM, Boulez, and the Institutionalization of the Musical Avant-Garde by Georgina Born
• Maya Deren and the American Avant-Garde
• Difference / Indifference: Musings on Postmodernism, Marcel Duchamp and John Cage (Critical Voices in Art, Theory and Culture) by Moira Roth
• Talking Music: Conversations with John Cage, Philip Glass, Laurie Anderson, and Five Generations of American Experimental Composers by William Duckworth
• Music and the Creative Spirit: Innovators in Jazz, Improvisation, and the Avant Garde (Studies in Jazz Series) by Lloyd Peterson
• The New York Schools of Music and the Visual Arts (Studies in Contemporary Music and Culture, V. 5.) by Steven Johnson
• A Dictionary of the Avant-Gardes by Ric Kostelanetz
• Birth Of The Cool: Beat, Bebop, and the American Avant Garde by Lewis MacAdams
• Avant-Garde Jazz Musicians: Performing "Out There" by David G. Such
• The Spirit of Montmartre: Cabarets, Humor, and the Avant-Garde, 1875-1905
• Silencing The Sounded Self: John Cage and the American Experimental Tradition by Christopher Shultis
• Between Montmartre and the Mudd Club: Popular Music and the Avant-Garde by Bernard Gendron
• Armonias Del Cielo Y De La Tierra/ Harmonies of Heaven and Earth: La Dimension Espiritual De La Musica Desde La Antiguedad Hasta La Vanguardia / the Spiritual ... to the Avant Garde (Paidos Orientalia) by Joscelyn Godwin
• The BBC and Ultra-Modern Music, 19221936: Shaping a Nation's Tastes (Music in the Twentieth Century) by Jennifer Doctor
• The Billboard Guide to Progressive Music by Bradley Smith
• Experimental Music Notebooks (Performing Arts Studies, V. 2) by Leigh Landy
• Making Theory/Constructing Art: On the Authority of the Avant-Garde by Daniel Herwitz
• What's the Matter with Today's Experimental Music?: Organized Sound Too Rarely Heard (Contemporary Music Studies) What's the Matter with Today's Experimental Music?: Organized Sound Too Rarely Heard (Contemporary Music Studies) by Leigh Landy
• Kritik der neuen Musik: Entwurf einer Musik des 21. Jahrhunderts by Claus-Steffen Mahnkopf
• Music of the Repressed Russian Avant-Garde, 1900-1929: (Contributions to the Study of Music and Dance) by Larry Sitsky
• The Cognitive Neuroscience of Music
• Experimental Music: Cage and Beyond (Music in the Twentieth Century) by Michael Nyman
• Electronic and Experimental Music: Pioneers in Technology and Composition (Media and Popularculture) by Thomas B. Holmes
• New Music, New Allies: American Experimental Music in West Germany from the Zero Hour to Reunification (California Studies in Twentieth-Century Music) by Amy C. Beal
• Talking Music: Conversations with John Cage, Philip Glass, Laurie Anderson, and Five Generations of American Experimental Composers by William Duckworth
• Avant Rock: Experimental Music from the Beatles to Bjork by Bill Martin
• A Power Stronger Than Itself: The AACM and American Experimental Music by George E. Lewis
• An Experimental Psychology of Music by Karl Feininger
• What's the Matter with Today's Experimental Music?: Organized Sound Too Rarely Heard (Contemporary Music Studies) by Leigh Landy
• Audio Culture: Readings in Modern Music
• Experimental Music: Cage and Beyond (Music in the Twentieth Century) by Michael Nyman
• Modern Music and After (Clarendon Paperbacks) by Paul Griffiths
• A Ned Rorem Reader by Ned Rorem
• The Atonal Music of Arnold Schoenberg, 1908-1923 by Bryan R. Simms
• Arnold Schoenberg by Charles Rosen
• Elliott Carter: Collected Essays and Lectures, 1937-1995
• The Boulez-Cage Correspondence
• New Music, New Allies: American Experimental Music in West Germany from the Zero Hour to Reunification (California Studies in Twentieth-Century Music) by Amy C. Beal
• Electronic and Experimental Music: Pioneers in Technology and Composition (Media and Popularculture) by Thomas B. Holmes
• Thinking in Sound: The Cognitive Psychology of Human Audition
• Avant-Garde Performance by Gunter Berghaus
• New Music, New Allies: American Experimental Music in West Germany from the Zero Hour to Reunification (California Studies in Twentieth-Century Music) New Music, New Allies: American Experimental Music in West Germany from the Zero Hour to Reunification (California Studies in Twentieth-Century Music) by Amy C. Beal
• Experimental Sound and Radio
• Experimental Research in Music, Text Experimental Research in Music, Text by Clifford K. Madsen
• American Experimental Music 18901940 by David Nicholls
• Composing with Tape Recorders: Musique Concrete for Beginners by Terence Dwyer
• Tape Music Composition by David Keane
• The Csound Book: Perspectives in Software Synthesis, Sound Design, Signal Processing,and Programming
• Creating Music and Sound for Games by G.W. Childs IV
• Creating a Music Website by Mike Simmons
• The Desktop Musician: Creating Music with Your Computer by David M. Rubin
• Balkan Fascination: Creating an Alternative Music Culture in America Includes CD/DVD (American Musicspheres) by Mirjana Lausevic
• Power Tools for GarageBand: Creating Music with Audio Recording, MIDI Sequencing, and Loops by Francis Preve
• Creating Digital Music and Sound: An inspirational introduction for musicians, web designers, animators, videomakers, and game designers. by Chris Middleton
• Composing Interactive Music: Techniques and Ideas Using Max by Todd Winkler
• Composing Music: A New Approach by William Russo
• Music for New Media: Composing for Videogames, Web Sites, Presentations and Other Interactive Media (Book & CD) by Paul Hoffert
• Composing Music with Computers (Music Technology) Composing Music with Computers (Music Technology) by Eduardo Miranda
• Get Creative With Emagic Logic by Keith Gemmell
• Composing for Voice: A Guide for Composers, Singers, and Teachers by Paul Barker
• Composing Music for Worship by John Bell
• Composing the Music of Africa: Composition, Interpretation and Realisation
• Interactive Music Systems: Machine Listening and Composing by Robert Rowe
• Leni Stern -- Composing and Compositions: Book & Cd
• Composers and Composing by Judith Bailey
• Study of Orchestration, Third Edition by Samuel Adler
• The Complete Idiot's Guide to Music Composition (The Complete Idiot's Guide) by Michael Miller
• The Csound Book: Perspectives in Software Synthesis, Sound Design, Signal Processing,and Programming
• Instrumentation and Orchestration by Alfred Blatter
• Materials and Techniques of Twentieth-Century Music (2nd Edition) by Stefan Kostka
• Organists Manual: Technical Studies and Selected Compositions for the Organ by Roger E. Davis
• Materials and Techniques of 20th Century Music (3rd Edition) by Stefan Kostka
• Film and Television Composer's Resource Guide: The Complete Guide to Organizing and Building Your Business by Mark Northam
• Serial Composition and Atonality: An Introduction to the Music of Schoenberg, Berg, and Webern, Sixth edition, Revised by George Perle
• Electronic and Experimental Music: Pioneers in Technology and Composition (Media and Popularculture) by Thomas B. Holmes
• Microsound by Curtis Roads
• The Desktop studio
• Coherence, Counterpoint, Instrumentation, Instruction in Form
• The Electronic Arts of Sound and Light - By Ronald Pellegrino
• Musical Composition by Reginald Smith Brindle
• Computer Models of Musical Creativity by David Cope
• The Computer Music Tutorial by Curtis Roads
• Simple Composition by Charles Wuorinen
• Arnold Schoenberg by Charles Rosen
• Creative Music Composition: The Young Composer's Voice by Margaret Lucy Wilkins
• Computer Music in C by Phil Winsor
• My Music: Explorations in the Application of 12 Tone Techniques to Jazz Composition and Improvisation by Bruce Arnold
• Composing Music with Computers (Music Technology) by Eduardo Miranda
• When Music Resists Meaning: The Major Writings of Herbert Bruen by Herbert Bruen
• The Schillinger System of Musical Composition (Music Reprint Series) by Joseph Schillinger
• Generative Processes in Music: The Psychology of Performance, Improvisation, and Composition
• Techniques of the Contemporary Composer by David Cope
• Formalized Music: Thought and Mathematics in Composition (Harmonologia Series, No 6) By Iannis Xenakis
• Experiments in Musical Intelligence (Computer Music and Digital Audio Series) by David Cope
• Loops and Grooves: The Musician's Guide to Groove Machines and Loop Sequencers
• Choral Composition: A Handbook for Composers, Arrangers, Conductors, and Singers by Robert Stephan Hines
• Virtual Music: Computer Synthesis of Musical Style by David Cope
• Techniques of Twentieth Century Composition: A Guide to the Materials of Modern Music (Music Series) by Leon Dallin
• The John Adams Reader: Essential Writings on an American Composer by Thomas May

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Music of the Twentieth-Century Avant-Garde: A Biocritical Sourcebook

New Directions in Music by David Cope

Rationalizing Culture: IRCAM, Boulez, and the Institutionalization of the Musical Avant-Garde by Georgina Born

Difference / Indifference: Musings on Postmodernism, Marcel Duchamp and John Cage (Critical Voices in Art, Theory and Culture) by Moira Roth

Talking Music: Conversations with John Cage, Philip Glass, Laurie Anderson, and Five Generations of American Experimental Composers by William Duckworth

Music and the Creative Spirit: Innovators in Jazz, Improvisation, and the Avant Garde (Studies in Jazz Series) by Lloyd Peterson

Harmonies of Heaven and Earth: Mysticism in Music from Antiquity to the Avant-Garde by Joscelyn Godwin

The New York Schools of Music and the Visual Arts (Studies in Contemporary Music and Culture, V. 5.) by Steven Johnson

Extended Play: Sounding Off from John Cage to Dr. Funkenstein by John Corbett

Maya Deren and the American Avant-Garde

A Dictionary of the Avant-Gardes by Ric Kostelanetz

New Music, New Allies: American Experimental Music in West Germany from the Zero Hour to Reunification (California Studies in Twentieth-Century Music) by Amy Beal

Birth Of The Cool: Beat, Bebop, and the American Avant Garde by Lewis MacAdams

Modern Music: The Avant Garde Since 1945 by Paul Griffiths

Avant-Garde Jazz Musicians: Performing "Out There" by David G. Such

Silencing The Sounded Self: John Cage and the American Experimental Tradition by Christopher Shultis

Between Montmartre and the Mudd Club: Popular Music and the Avant-Garde by Bernard Gendron

Liminal Acts: A Critical Overview of Contemporary Performance and Theory by Susan Broadhurst

What's the Matter with Today's Experimental Music?: Organized Sound Too Rarely Heard (Contemporary Music Studies) by Leigh Landy

The Unknown Paul McCartney: McCartney and the Avant Garde by Ian Peel

Music of the Repressed Russian Avant-Garde, 1900-1929: (Contributions to the Study of Music and Dance) by Larry Sitsky

The New Music: The Avant-garde since 1945 by Reginald Smith Brindle

Experimental Music Notebooks (Performing Arts Studies) by Leigh Landy

Dresden und die avancierte Musik im 20. Jahrhundert (Musik in Dresden)

György Ligetis Aventures & Nouvelles aventures: Studien zur Sprachkomposition und Ästhetik der Avantgarde (European university studies. Series XXXVI, Musicology) by Konstantinos Kakavelakis

Composers of tomorrow's music;: A non-technical introduction to the musical avant-garde movement by David Ewen

A concise history of avant-garde music: From Debussy to Boulez by Paul Griffiths

Neue Musik und Interpretation: Fünf Kongressbeiträge und drei Seminarberichte (Veröffentlichungen des Instituts für Neue Musik und Musikerziehung Darmstadt)

Fusion: Tonal and avant garde music combined in melodic guitar solos (Guitar series) by Joe Diorio

Tradition and Avant-Garde by Jelena Milojkovic-Djuric

Making Theory/Constructing Art: On the Authority of the Avant-Garde by Daniel Herwitz

Revolution in der Musik: Avantgarde von 1200 bis 2000

From Classicism to Modernism: Western Musical Culture and the Metaphysics of Order by Brian K. Etter

The Billboard Guide to Progressive Music by Bradley Smith

The Art of Noises (Monographs in Musicology) by Luigi Russolo

Break All Rules!: Punk Rock and the Making of a Style (Studies in the Fine Arts : the Avant-Garde, No. 68) by Tricia Henry

The BBC and Ultra-Modern Music, 19221936: Shaping a Nation's Tastes (Music in the Twentieth Century) by Jennifer Doctor

The musical avant-garde of the Renaissance,: Or, the peril and profit of foresight by Edward E Lowinsky

The Avant-Garde Flute: A Handbook for Composers and Flutists (The New Instrumentation, V. 2) by Thomas Howell

Source: Music of the Avant Garde by Michael D. Williams

Avant-Garde Flute : A Handbook For Composers And Flutists.  -  Howell, Thomas

The philosophy of the avant garde by Gary Novak

Annual Review of Jazz Studies 3: Features Slam Stewart, Jelly Roll Morton, Bebop Composition, Jazz Avant-Garde (Annual Review of Jazz Studies)

A comparative analysis of four avant-garde compositions from the aspect of timbre by Henry Criz

Das Orgelschaffen Wolfgang Stockmeiers und die avantgardistische Orgelmusik (Beiträge zur rheinischen Musikgeschichte) by Manfred Albus

Fenomenologia della musica sperimentale (Collana di fenomenologia ed ermeneutica musicale) by Angelo Orcalli

From Wikipedia:   Avant-Garde and Kitsch written by the New York art critic Clement Greenberg and published in the journal Partisan Review in 1939.

The Work of Art in the Age of Mechanical Reproduction by Walter Benjamin

Buchloh, Benjamin (2001). Neoavantgarde and Culture Industry. MIT Press

Bürger, Peter (1974). Theorie der Avantgarde. Suhrkamp Verlag

Poggioli, Renato (1968). The Theory of the Avant-Garde. Harvard University Press. ISBN 0-674-88216-4

Calinescu, Matei (1987). The Five Faces of Modernity: Modernism, Avant-Garde, Decadence, Kitsch, Postmodernism. Duke University Press.

Amazon.com: Electronic Music Pioneers: Books: Ben Kettlewell

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The New Music: The Avant-Garde Since 1945  by Reginald Smith Brindle		A Concise History of Avant-Garde Music: From Debussy to Boulez by Paul Griffiths
Source: Music of the Avant Garde by Michael D. Williams		Modern Music: The Avant Garde Since 1945 by Paul Griffiths
Between Montmartre and the Mudd Club: Popular Music and the Avant-Garde by Bernard Gendron		Birth Of The Cool : Beat, Bebop, and the American Avant Garde by Lewis MacAdams
Rationalizing Culture: Ircam, Boulez, and the Institutionalization of the Musical Avant-Garde by Georgina Born		Music of the Repressed Russian Avant-Garde, 1900-1929: (Contributions to the Study of Music and Dance) by Larry Sitsky
New Directions in Music by David Cope		What's the Matter With Today's Experimental Music?: Organized