The Music of Stuart Saunders Smith [Hardcover]

In the music of Stuart Saunders Smith (b. 1948), jazz, the avant-garde, and sound-text poetry coalesce. Through the years he has concentrated on certain kinds of compositionopen form, radio music, trans-media systems, and sound-text poetry. Although Smith considers himself a jazz composer and drummer, his work has been absorbed into a wider range of contemporary musical efforts, both in the United States and Europe.

This study of Smith contains six critical analyses, an interview, and bibliographic information containing a list of compositions, a discography, Smith's publications, and research currently available on his music. As Milton Babbitt notes, All of his music is to be reckoned with& and, as such, this volume will be of interest to all students and scholars of contemporary composition.

Foreword by Milton Babbit
A Longing for Links by Herbert Br?n
Foreword by Brian Ferneyhough
Foreword by Ben Johnston
Prologue
Viewing Mobile Minds: Gifts (1974)
Music in the Air: Here and There (1971)
Trans-media Systems
Rooted Logic: Tunnels (1982, revised 1985)
Selected Scores
The Links Series of Vibraphone Essays
Interview with Stuart Saunders Smith
Epilogue
Compositions/Discography
Bibliography
Index