Epitaph /
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| Author / Creator: | Mingus, Charles, 1922-1979. |
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| Edition: | Study score. |
| Imprint: | [New York] : Let My Children Hear Music ; Milwaukee, WI : Exclusively distributed by Hal Leonard, [2011], ©1979. |
| Description: | 1 score (xiv, 341 pages) : facsimiles ; 36 cm |
| Language: | No linguistic content |
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| Format: | Music score E-Resource Print |
| URL for this record: | http://pi.lib.uchicago.edu/1001/cat/bib/11395248 |
| Summary: | (Jazz Publications). Epitaph , written for a 31-piece ensemble, was the masterwork of composer/bassist Charles Mingus. The extended suite is comprised of multiple movements reflecting a wealth of compositional styles (not just jazz) that demonstrate Mingus' invaluable contribution to 20th-century American music. Since its last performance 15 years ago, additional movements have been discovered that were originally intended to be a part of the work. This unique 500-page score includes these "missing movements" along with historical and program notes. Prepared and edited under the guidance of Gunther Schuller and Sue Mingus, it provides a monumental resource for study and analysis. The first jazz composition of such magnitude ever to be published, it is presented in this edition as he left it: a summary work, a portrait for all time of his life in music. "I wrote it for my tombstone." - Charles Mingus |
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| Item Description: | For jazz ensemble of 31 players. Portions first performed in 1962; rediscovered in 1979 and premiered in 1989 at Alice Tully Hall, Lincoln Center, New York. Includes a preface by Sue Mingus, historical notes by Andrew Homzy, "Notes from an engraver" by Pei-Chin Ho, and "A guide to Charles Mingus's Epitaph" by Gunther Schuller. |
| Physical Description: | 1 score (xiv, 341 pages) : facsimiles ; 36 cm |
| ISBN: | 1458418154 9781458418159 |
