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>THE PLAYER PIANO MUSIC OF CONLON NANCARROW: AN ANALYSIS OF SELECTED STUDIES (AND) 'FAIR SEED-TIME' FOR TENOR AND ORCHESTRA (SELECTIONS FROM WILLIAM WORDSWORTH'S 'PRELUDE'). (ORIGINAL COMPOSITION) (ARKANSAS, MEXICO).
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THE PLAYER PIANO MUSIC OF CONLON NANCARROW: AN ANALYSIS OF SELECTED STUDIES (AND) 'FAIR SEED-TIME' FOR TENOR AND ORCHESTRA (SELECTIONS FROM WILLIAM WORDSWORTH'S 'PRELUDE'). (ORIGINAL COMPOSITION) (ARKANSAS, MEXICO).
The composer Conlon Nancarrow was born in Arkansas in 1912, played jazz trumpet as a young man, studied composition and counterpoint for brief periods in Cincinnati and Boston (including work with Slonimsky, Piston, and Sessions), fought in the Spanish Civil War as a member of the Abraham Lincoln Brigade, became involved in the New York new music scene on his return to the United States in 1939, and emigrated to Mexico a year later as a result of the U.S. government's refusal to issue him a passport. He has lived in Mexico ever since, working for many years in virtual isolation from other composers and musicians. Gradually, however, with the ongoing release of scores and recordings of his music, Nancarrow has gained increasing recognition and stature, a fact exemplified by his receipt in 1982 of a MacArthur Foundation "genius" award.;Fair Seed-time, an original composition of approximately 17 minutes duration, is a set of four songs for tenor and orchestra based on excerpts from Book I of William Wordsworth's Prelude. The movements are entitled (I) "This Gentle Breeze," (II) " Fair Seed-time", (III) "Above the Raven's Nest," and (IV) "In the Frosty Season.".;Because of his isolation and his longstanding frustration at the inability of musicians to deal with even moderately difficult rhythms, he turned in the 1940s to the player piano. He has since written nearly fifty studies for the instrument, a unique body of work that is particularly notable for its exhaustive explorations of rhythmic and temporal complexity. In this essay, Studies No. 19, 36, 8, 23, and 35 are analyzed in depth. Examples from other works are also cited. The music amply demonstrates Nancarrow's wit, inventiveness, mastery of counterpoint, preoccupation with numbers and structures, and his ability to transform the mechanical player piano into an instrument of great virtuosic and expressive power.
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机译：作曲家康隆·南卡罗（Conlon Nancarrow）于1912年出生于阿肯色州，年轻时曾弹奏爵士小号，曾在辛辛那提和波士顿短暂学习过作曲和对位（包括与Slonimsky，Piston和Sessions的合作），并曾参加西班牙内战。亚伯拉罕·林肯旅（Abraham Lincoln Brigade）的成员在1939年返回美国后就涉足了纽约的新音乐圈，并在一年后因美国政府拒绝向他颁发护照而移民到墨西哥。从那以后，他一直居住在墨西哥，在与其他作曲家和音乐家的虚拟隔离下工作了多年。然而，随着他的音乐乐谱和唱片的不断发行，楠卡罗获得了越来越多的认可和地位，这一事实以他在1982年获得麦克阿瑟基金会“天才”奖为例。大约17分钟的时长，是一组四首为男高音和管弦乐队创作的歌曲，这些歌曲是根据威廉·华兹华斯（William Wordsworth）的《序曲》第一册的摘录制作的。这些运动的标题是（I）“这轻柔的微风”，（II）“适时的种子时间”，（III）“在乌鸦巢上方”和（IV）“在霜冻季节”。长期以来由于对音乐家无法应付中等难度的节奏感到沮丧，他在1940年代转向了钢琴演奏家。从那以后，他为该乐器撰写了近五十份研究报告，这是一项独特的工作，尤其是在对节奏和时间复杂性的详尽探索中尤为突出。在本文中，对第19、36、8、23和35号研究进行了深入分析。还列举了其他作品的例子。音乐充分展示了Nancarrow的机智，创造力，对点的掌握，对数字和结构的专注，以及他将机械演奏者的钢琴转变成具有强大演奏和表现力的乐器的能力。
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