Essays on the Music and Theoretical Writings of Thomas Delio, Conttemporary American Composer Book

Foreword: Framing Tom Herman Sabbe Sabbe, Herman

Introduction Thomas Licata Licata, Thomas Jerry Tabor Tabor, Jerry

Composer

1 The Complexity of Experience Thomas DeLio DeLio, Thomas 3

2 Luminous Presence: Thomas DeLio's 'think on parch' Linda Dusman Dusman, Linda 23

3 Notes on Digital Silence: Listening to Tom DeLio's Short Tape Works Agostino Di Scipio Di Scipio, Agostino 39

4 'Bright Seaweed Reaping': A Song of Thomas DeLio Wesley Fuller Fuller, Wesley 57

5 The Dialectics of Experimentalism Christopher Shultis Shultis, Christopher 129

6 Perception/Form: Thomas DeLio's 'Though 'for Solo Piano Michael Boyd Boyd, Michael 165

7 The Evolution of Performance Practice: Thomas DeLio's 'wave/s' Morris Palter Palter, Morris 187

8 ... breaking the silence Tom Goldstein Goldstein, Tom 199

9 A Conversation with Composer Thomas DeLio Tracy Wiggins Wiggins, Tracy 207

10 Circumscribing the Open Universe Thomas DeLio DeLio, Thomas 219

11 The Open Universe, Revisited Thomas DeLio DeLio, Thomas 223

12 Music/Talking About Music/Talking About Talking About Music Robert Morris Morris, Robert 231

13 Organic Construction in Music of Morton Feldman Steven Johnson Johnson, Steven 245

14 The Sonic Landscape: 'Bewegt' by Anton Webern Thomas DeLio DeLio, Thomas 273

15 su una nota sola: Giacinto Scelsi's 'Quattro pezzi, No. 3' Thomas DeLio DeLio, Thomas 325

Bibliography 365

List of Compositions 371

Discography 379

CD Contents 381