''Garrulous and loving, remarkably successful in distilling abstruse musical manipulation--e.g., the mathematics governing the many kinds of tuning in Harrison's music--this is one of those rare musical biographies that draws you close to the subject with words of kindness rather than scholarly gobbledygook or scabrous patter. The disc, of course, helps. The whole thing is--well--pretty.'' -- Alan Rich, San Francisco Sunday Examiner ''An inspirational assessment of the American maverick.'' -- BBC Music Magazine (10 Best Books list) ''Far from academicizing or otherwise constraining Harrison by placing him between its solid covers, Composing a World seemingly manages the impossible in striking a perfect balance between convention and alterity, seriousness and humor, scholarship and celebration, erudition and readability, macrocosm and microcosm... A minor musicological miracle.'' -- David Nicholls, Notes ''... engrossing, indispensable.'' -- Mark Swed, LA Times '' ... Composing A World--originally published in 1998, and now available in a revised edition with a CD--is the definitive study of Lou Harrison, the American composer who died in 2003.''-- The WIRE
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