Left Wikipedia; reasons given here.
I was having a drink with composer Larry Polansky one night. He was talking about the musicological and restorative work he was doing on music by Johanna Beyer and Harry Partch, I spoke of my analytical writings on the music of Conlon Nancarrow and Mikel Rouse. Finally, Larry said, "Composers are now doing the work that musicologists used to do, while the musicologists are all off doing gender studies."
So that's why I'm here - a composer seduced into musicology - because somebody had to to it, and it pays better than being a composer.
Read about me at Kyle Gann (which I didn't start, but I amplified a little) and even more here.
By the way, my books so far are:
I wrote the Grove Dictionary articles on the following composers:
Plus the article on La Monte Young's The Well-Tuned Piano for Perspectives of New Music, the article on "American Music Since 1980" for Musik in Geschichte und Gegenwart, and others. I wrote for the Village Voice from December 1986 to December 2005. Most writings listed here.
Left Wikipedia; reasons given here.
I was having a drink with composer Larry Polansky one night. He was talking about the musicological and restorative work he was doing on music by Johanna Beyer and Harry Partch, I spoke of my analytical writings on the music of Conlon Nancarrow and Mikel Rouse. Finally, Larry said, "Composers are now doing the work that musicologists used to do, while the musicologists are all off doing gender studies."
So that's why I'm here - a composer seduced into musicology - because somebody had to to it, and it pays better than being a composer.
Read about me at Kyle Gann (which I didn't start, but I amplified a little) and even more here.
By the way, my books so far are:
I wrote the Grove Dictionary articles on the following composers:
Plus the article on La Monte Young's The Well-Tuned Piano for Perspectives of New Music, the article on "American Music Since 1980" for Musik in Geschichte und Gegenwart, and others. I wrote for the Village Voice from December 1986 to December 2005. Most writings listed here.