Musical Experience of Composer, Performer, Listener

by Roger Sessions

Book Overview

One of America's foremost contemporary composers, professor of music at the University of California, Roger Sessions here discusses the musical experience of the composer, the performer, the listener. He believes this experience to be shared, on in which all three participants play vital roles, and in this book he speaks especially to the listener. Mr. Sessions finds that the artist-public relationships has been shifted to that of producer and consumer...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 069102703X
• ISBN13: 9780691027036
• Release Date: January 1972
• Publisher: Princeton University Press
• Length: 134 Pages
• Weight: 0.36 lbs.