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• Title:Claude Vivier : a composer's life / Bob Gilmore.
  
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• Author/Creator:Gilmore, Bob, 1961-2015 author.
  
• Published/Created:Rochester, NY : University of Rochester Press, 2014.
  ©2014
  

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  • Location:MAA LIBRARY (IKB) stacksWhere is this?
    
  • Call Number: ML410.V8273 G55 2014
    
  • Number of Items:1
    
  • Status:Available
    

   
• Library of Congress Subjects:Vivier, Claude, 1948-1983.
  Composers--Canada--Biography.
  
• Description:xiv, 295 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm
  
• Series:Eastman studies in music.
  
• Summary:In 1983, French-Canadian composer Claude Vivier was murdered in Paris at the age of thirty-four. Based on unrestricted access to Vivier's personal archives, this book is the first to tell his story.
  
• Notes:Includes bibliographical references, discography, and index.
  
• ISBN:9781580464857 (hardcover : alkaline paper)
  1580464858 (hardcover : alkaline paper)
  
• Contents:Machine generated contents note: 1. "The fact of knowing I had no father or mother" (1948
  67)
  2. "I want art to be a sacred act, the revelation of forces" (1967
  71)
  3. "To push my language further" (1971
  72)
  4. "A need to communicate with the rest of the cosmos" (1972
  74)
  5. Something different is coming, something more precise, more clear" (1974
  76)
  6. "A journey into the depths of myself" (1976
  77)
  7. "Subtle musics / Filling my soul" (1977
  79)
  8. "A mystical enchantment" (1978
  79)
  9. "Oh beautiful child of the light" (1979
  81)
  10. "The passionate love for music that sometimes stops me from composing" (1981
  82)
  11. "It's only in thinking about music, and about sound, that I can be happy" (1982
  83)
  12. "In Quebec people die easily" (1983
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  Appendixes
  1. Chronology of Compositions
  2. Selected Discography.