Brian Dennis Explained
Brian Dennis was an English experimental music[1] composer,[2] and author[3] born in Marple, Cheshire in May 1941 and died in June 1998.
Brian studied with Stockhausen, Berio, Earle Brown and Cathy Berberian at The Cologne Course for New Music and was a lecturer in Composition and Contemporary Music at Royal Holloway College, University of London.[4]
Brian wrote two books in the 1970s: Experimental Music in Schools [5] and Projects in Sound,[6] [7] which propose a new graphical form of Musical notation, showing instruments as images representing their sound, rather than traditional notation on a stave. For example, the notation of a scraping wood Güiro would be shown as zig-zag lines. Both books have been used extensively in classrooms[8] [9] and became part of the National Curriculum of England, Wales and Northern Ireland
He also featured in BBC documentary Music in Schools and has inspired Dan Mayfield's School of Noise.
His compositions include approximately 150 songs many of which are settings of Chinese poems[10] with lyrics in English prepared by the composer, as well as a number of piano pieces. He completed a trilogy of one-act operas based on Japanese Noh plays as well as an unfinished three-act opera based on The Snow Queen by Hans Christian Andersen.
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Notes and References
- Book: Virginia DeVere Anderson. British experimental music: Cornelius Cardew and his contemporaries. 1983. University of Redlands.
- Reed Business Information. New Scientist. New Scientist Careers Guide: The Employer Contacts Book for Scientists . 19 April 1973. Reed Business Information. 178–. 0262-4079.
- Book: John Tilbury. Cornelius Cardew (1936–1981): a life unfinished. November 2008. Copula. 978-0-9525492-4-6 .
- Book: Dr Keith Potter. Dr Pwyll ap Siôn. Professor Kyle Gann. The Ashgate Research Companion to Minimalist and Postminimalist Music. 28 December 2013. Ashgate Publishing, Ltd.. 978-1-4724-0278-3. 156–.
- Book: The Musical quarterly. 1969. Sonneck . Oscar George .
- Book: Contact. 1980. University of London Goldsmiths College.
- Book: Robert Walker. Music education: tradition and innovation. 1984. Charles C. Thomas Publisher, Limited. 978-0-398-04861-7.
- Book: Kent, Ashley. School Subject Teaching: The History and Future of the Curriculum. 19 December 2013. Taylor & Francis. 978-1-317-84493-8. 159–.
- Book: Peter Manning Professor of Music University of Durham. Electronic and Computer Music. 29 January 2004. Oxford University Press, USA. 978-0-19-534929-0. 147–.
- Book: D. J. Hoek. Analyses of Nineteenth- and Twentieth-Century Music, 1940–2000. 15 February 2007. Scarecrow Press. 978-1-4617-0079-1. 92–.
- Book: Dr Pwyll ap Siôn. Michael Nyman: Collected Writings. 28 December 2013. Ashgate Publishing, Ltd.. 978-1-4724-3048-9. 153–.
- Book: David M. Cummings. International Who's Who in Music and Musician's Directory. 2000. Psychology Press. 978-0-948875-53-3. 116–.
- Book: Robert Walker. Music Education: Cultural Values, Social Change and Innovation. 2007. Charles C Thomas Publisher. 978-0-398-08544-5. 222–.
- Book: Ruth Wright. Sociology and Music Education. 2010. Ashgate Publishing, Ltd.. 978-0-7546-6801-5. 127–.
- Book: John Paynter. Janet Mills. Thinking and making: selections from the writings of John Paynter on music in education. 25 August 2008. Oxford University Press. 978-0-19-335591-0.
- Smalley . Roger . 1972 . Brian Dennis . The Musical Times . 113, No. 1547 . 1547 . 30–33 . 10.2307/957618 . 957618 . JSTOR.
