Product Description

Written by a composer and a musician, The Contemporary Violin offers a unique menu of avant-garde musical possibilities that both performers and composers will enjoy exploring. Allen and Patricia Strange's comprehensive study critically examines extended performance techniques found in the violin literature of the latter half of the twentieth century. Drawing from both published and private manuscripts, the authors present extended performance options for the acoustic, modified, electric, and MIDI violin, with signal processing and computer-related techniques, and include more than 400 notated examples.

The authors begin with bowing techniques and proceed systematically through other aspects of string playing, including MIDI technologies. Their correspondence and research with many performers and composers, the book's extensive score and text bibliography, and the discography of more than 130 recordings make The Contemporary Violin a valuable contemporary music reference and guide. An additional benefit is its listing of Internet resources that will keep the reader up to date with recent developments in contemporary performance and composition.

Product Details

• Amazon Sales Rank: #451590 in Books
• Published on: 2001-07-02
• Original language: English
• Number of items: 1
• Binding: Paperback
• 350 pages

About the Author
Allen Strange is a practicing composer and the author of Electronic Music: Systems, Controls, and Techniques (1985). Patricia Strange is a musician dedicated to the performance of contemporary and experimental music. She is Principal Second Violin for the San Jose Symphony.

Customer Reviews

ALL contemporary composers and violinists need this book!,
I knew this book was special when I read the opening quote from the first page of the one of the chapters:

We're here to hurt you!"
--Billy Corgan of the smashing Pumpkins

Simply put: This book is a revalation to the contemporary string music scene. Extreemly well written, full of countless scores and short examples. Invaluable.

ALL contemporary composers and violinists need this book!
I new this book was special when I read the opening quote from the first page of the Introduction to Amplification and Signal Processing chapter:

We're here to hurt you!"
--Billy Corgan of the smashing Pumpkins

Simply put: This book is a revalation to the contemporary string music scene. Extreemly well written, full of countless scores and short examples. Invaluable.