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Studies for Player Piano 1 & 2
Nancarrow, Conlon
Studies for Player Piano 1 & 2
Genre: Classical
 
  •  Track Listings (10) - Disc #1
  •  Track Listings (13) - Disc #2

Nobody plays this music. Conlon Nancarrow composed these pieces by punching them directly onto piano rolls. He began using this method when he felt his music was becoming too rhythmically complex for live performers. Th...  more »

     
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All Artists: Nancarrow, Conlon
Title: Studies for Player Piano 1 & 2
Members Wishing: 2
Total Copies: 0
Label: Wergo Germany
Release Date: 12/8/1993
Album Type: Import
Genre: Classical
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Number of Discs: 2
SwapaCD Credits: 2
UPC: 093046268923

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Nobody plays this music. Conlon Nancarrow composed these pieces by punching them directly onto piano rolls. He began using this method when he felt his music was becoming too rhythmically complex for live performers. That may be true, but this still isn't very difficult music to listen to. It always contains familiar elements, many of them coming from the jazz Nancarrow played on the trumpet when he was young. These wildly imaginative pieces have an exhilarating effect, live performers or no, and they are strongly recommended to the adventurous. Not long before he died, Nancarrow won a McArthur Foundation "genius" grant; he deserved it. --Leslie Gerber