Books by Gunther Schuller

This detailed guide to all aspects of horn-playing has been revised and updated to include an extensive repertoire list which lists over 1000 pieces for the horn from the solo, chamber and orchestral repertoires.

Composer, conductor, educator, jazz critic, and horn virtuoso, Gunther Schuller here brings together his writings on music. There are numerous articles about jazz, dealing with his favourite figures like Duke Ellington and Ornette Coleman, and also Schuller''s concept of the ''Third Stream'', the area where jazz and concert music intersect. Other sections deal with the composition and performance of contemporary music, musical education, and musicalaesthetics.

Following on from the author's previous work, "Early Jazz", this detailed history of jazz covers the crucial era which saw the rise of big band swing and the transition to the more "avant-garde" bop style which revolutionized jazz in the 1940s.

This volume contains the essays, speeches, liner notes, dictionary entries and magazine articles of Gunther Schuller. The writings cover such artists as Paul Whiteman, Duke Ellington and Sarah Vaughn and topics like the "Third Stream", the art of conducting and the future of opera.

Written by a world renowned conductor and composer, this highly provocative critique of modern conducting is sure to spark debate in the music world.