Books by Kyle Gann:
Robert Ashley (American Composers)
(University of Illinois Press, 2012)
No Such Thing as Silence:
John Cage's 4'33"
(Yale University Press, 2010)
Music Downtown: Writings from the Village Voice
(University of
California Press, 2006)
American Music in the Twentieth Century
(Schirmer Books, 1997)
The Music of
Conlon Nancarrow
(Cambridge University
Press, 1995)
Books with forewords, chapters, or articles by Kyle Gann:
Silence by John Cage, 50th-anniversary edition; Foreword by Kyle Gann
(Wesleyan University Press, 2011
Perfect Lives by Robert Ashley; Foreword by Kyle Gann
(Dalkey Archives Press, 2011)
The Farthest Place: The Music of John Luther Adans, edited by Bernd Herzogenrath; "Time at the End of the World: The Orchestral Tetralogy of John Luther Adams" by Kyle Gann
(Northeastern Press, 2011)
Trimpin: Contraptions for Art and Sound, edited by Anne Focke; "Trimpin, Nancarrow, and the Transfer of Memory" by Kyle Gann
(Marquand Books, 2011)
Edgard Varse: Composer, Sound Sculptor, Visionary, edited by Felix Meyer and Heidi Zimmermann; "Magnificent - in a Mysterious Way: Varse's Impact on American Music" by Kyle Gann
(Boydell Press, 2004)
Winter Music: Composing the North, by John Luther Adams; Foreword by Kyle Gann
(Wesleyan University
Press, 2004)
Essential Cowell
edited by Dick Higgins;
Preface by Kyle Gann
(McPherson Press, 2002)
The Cambridge Companion
to John Cage,
edited by David Nicholls;
"No Escape from Heaven:
John Cage as Father Figure,"
by Kyle Gann
(Cambridge University
Press, 2002)
Music in the United States,
by H. Wiley Hitchcock
with Kyle Gann
(Prentice Hall, 1999)
The Whole World of Music: A Henry Cowell Symposium,
edited by David Nicholls;
"Subversive Prophet: Henry Cowell as Theorist and Critic" by Kyle Gann
(Prentice Hall, 1999)
Sound and Light: La Monte Young and Marian Zazeela, edited by William Duckworth and Richard Fleming;
"The Outer Edge of Consonance," by Kyle Gann
(Bucknell University Press, 1996)
Books reprinting articles by Kyle Gann:
Audio Culture:
Readings in Modern Music;
edited by Cristoph Cox and Daniel Warner; "Thankless Attempts at a Definition of Minimalism" by Kyle Gann (Continuum Books, 2004)
Writings on Glass: Essays, Interviews, Criticism, edited by Richard Kostelanetz; "Midtown Avant-Gardist" by Kyle Gann
(Schirmer Books, 1997; University of
California Press, 1999)
Meredith Monk, edited by Deborah Jowitt; "Ancient Lullabies" by Kyle Gann
(PAJ Books: Art + Performance, 1997)
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