Büchner-Verlag,
Darmstadt
2012
ISBN 978-3-941310-28-5
134 pp, paperback, 20,5 x 13 cm
German
This is a book on Frank Zappa as a modern composer and his music. Daniel Schröder compares his œuvre with the work of other composers like Edgard Varèse, John Cage, Karlheinz Stockhausen, Pierre Boulez, Conlon Nancarrows.
In the exhibition program of Zappanale 2012 had Daniel Shröder lecture 'Der Komponist Frank Zappa'.
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Büchner-Verlag,
Darmstadt
2017 August 21
ISBN 978-3-941310-85-8
132 pp, paperback, 20,5 x 13 cm
English
Book translated by Jacqueline Coates, Liz Haack and Jacqueline Snow.
In his first album, Frank Zappa already
formulated his ambition to become an important composer. And
not only did he succeed in becoming a unique musical icon but
also in developing an unmistakeable style in compositions for
large orchestras or for The Yellow Shark project.
But where exactly in the vast field of New Music of the 20th
century do we encounter the composer Frank Zappa and who else
do we happen upon in his works besides the omnipresent Edgard
Varèse? Was John Cage no more than a whimsical mushroom picker
for him, and Karlheinz Stockhausen already in a helicopter off
to Sirius? Or have Pierre Boulez' serialism or Conlon Nancarrow's
punched holes left more dots on the map of Zappa's musical cosmos?
What was conventional about Zappa's music, and what was innovative?
And, did Zappa really refuse to die?
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