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The Music of Michael Nyman: Texts, Contexts and Intertexts.(Book review)

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The Music of Michael Nyman: Texts, Contexts and Intertexts. By Pwyll ap Sion. Burlington, VT: Ashgate Publishing, 2007. [xviii, 232 p. ISBN-13: 9781859282106. $99.95.] Illustrations, music examples, bibliographical references, index.

The Music of Michael Nyman: Texts, Contexts and Intertexts is the first book-length publication on any British experimentalist since Michael Nyman's own Experimental Music: Cage and Beyond (2d ed., New York: Cambridge University Press, 1999; first edition, London: Studio Vista, 1974). For that reason alone, it is welcome: the British musical establishment has not exactly embraced British experimental ism and its associated ...

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