Jeffrey Perry
Biographic Data
| ID | 3685040 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Jeffrey Perry |
| GIVEN NAMES | Jeffrey |
| FAMILY NAME | Perry |
| SIGNATURE | PERRY J |
| AFFILIATIONS | Louisiana State University |
| VERIFIED | No |
| TOTAL WORKS | 4 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 0 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 4 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2000 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2021 |
| H-INDEX | 0 |
Cage’s Imitation Game
The theme of John Cage’s Song Books (1970), according to Cage, is contained in the statement “We connect Satie with Thoreau” (".fn_cite($cage_1970).", 1). Previous studies of Cage’s Song Books have not asked what I feel to be obvious questions: how, precisely, does Cage connect Satie with Thoreau? To what end? And how does Cage connect to Satie and Thoreau (and to the other sources from which he borrows)? I make use of Cage’s sketch materials to …
A Quiet Corner Where We Can Talk
Even by his own iconoclastic standards, the stance that John Cage staked out with regard to the music of Erik Satie was extreme. Although Robert Orledge notes of Satie that ‘Curiously, rhythmic originality never seemed to concern him’, Cage insisted that his own rhythmic innovations (his use of symmetries and of square root, or micro-macrocosmic structures) derived from similar structures he found in Satie's works. This essay begins with a survey…
Constructing a Relevant Past
© 2012 by the Board of Trustees of the University of Illinois Jeffrey Perry is professor of music theory in the School of Music at Louisiana State University. His published work deals with the music of Beethoven, Paganini, Schubert, John Cage, Paul Lansky, and others. A former reviews editor of Music Theory Online and contributor to the forthcoming second edition of the Grove Dictionary of America Music, he has twice been a Fellow of the Mannes S…
Music, Evolution and the Ladder of Progress
This paper examines the compositional genealogies presented by several composers of the nineteenth and twentieth centuries, notably Wagner, Schoenberg, Webern, and Boulez, and of writings by other composers related dialectically to the genealogical mode of composerly self-perception. It also examines resonances between composers’ genealogical polemics and contemporary notions borrowed from literature and evolutionary theory (e.g., the organicism …
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Music, Evolution and the Ladder of Progress
This paper examines the compositional genealogies presented by several composers of the nineteenth and twentieth centuries, notably Wagner, Schoenberg, Webern, and Boulez, and of writings by other composers related dialectically to the genealogical mode of composerly self-perception. It also examines resonances between composers’ genealogical polemics and contemporary notions borrowed from literature and evolutionary theory (e.g., the organicism …
Constructing a Relevant Past
© 2012 by the Board of Trustees of the University of Illinois Jeffrey Perry is professor of music theory in the School of Music at Louisiana State University. His published work deals with the music of Beethoven, Paganini, Schubert, John Cage, Paul Lansky, and others. A former reviews editor of Music Theory Online and contributor to the forthcoming second edition of the Grove Dictionary of America Music, he has twice been a Fellow of the Mannes S…
A Quiet Corner Where We Can Talk
Even by his own iconoclastic standards, the stance that John Cage staked out with regard to the music of Erik Satie was extreme. Although Robert Orledge notes of Satie that ‘Curiously, rhythmic originality never seemed to concern him’, Cage insisted that his own rhythmic innovations (his use of symmetries and of square root, or micro-macrocosmic structures) derived from similar structures he found in Satie's works. This essay begins with a survey…
Cage’s Imitation Game
The theme of John Cage’s Song Books (1970), according to Cage, is contained in the statement “We connect Satie with Thoreau” (".fn_cite($cage_1970).", 1). Previous studies of Cage’s Song Books have not asked what I feel to be obvious questions: how, precisely, does Cage connect Satie with Thoreau? To what end? And how does Cage connect to Satie and Thoreau (and to the other sources from which he borrows)? I make use of Cage’s sketch materials to …
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