Directory of Nancarrow, Conlon Resources

Home > Arts > Music > Composition > Composers > N > Nancarrow, Conlon

(1912-1997) Frustrated by his inability to secure accurate performances of his highly complex works, he spent most of his life in Mexico writing music for mechanical instruments such as player pianos with which he was able to achieve rhythmic complexity beyond the abilities of human musicians.

Resources in This Category

• A Conlon Nancarrow Web Page

  http://www.kylegann.com/index2.html
  Links to Kyle Gann's articles on Nancarrow (for the Village Voice), and promo for the same's book on Nancarrow's life.

• Conlon Nancarrow

  http://www.otherminds.org/shtml/Nancarrow.shtml
  Biography from Other Minds.

• Conlon Nancarrow (1912-1997)

  http://www.furious.com/perfect/conlonnancarrow.html
  Personality and Poliphony, a biography by Tom Rodwell with picture.

• Conlon Nancarrow: Otherworldly Compositions for Player Piano

  http://news.minnesota.publicradio.org/features/199710/29_bakera_nancarrow/
  News feature includes a number of RealAudio samples and some limited biographical information.

Other Languages

• German

 

Home > Arts > Music > Composition > Composers > N > Nancarrow, Conlon

 

---

 

Thanks to DMOZ, which built a great web directory for nearly two decades and freely shared it with the web. About us